POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
POLITICAL BOOK NOTES Public affairs books to be published in December. American Business in the Twentieth Century. Thomas C. Cochran. Harvard, $11.95. Comrade George: An Investigation into...
...As the essays move into the seventies, their subjects grow more important...
...Marc Pilisuk and Phylis Pilisuk, eds...
...Edward Hymoff...
...Concludes that today’s form of peacekeeping, the nuclear “stalemate of terror,” has at least kept us from major wars...
...Includes an unusually useful set of opinion polls, focusing on what social and political issues people think important...
...Despite its title, the book avoids the assumption that the only interesting thing about Asians is their policy toward the U. S. World Fisheries Policy: Multidisciplinary Views...
...The Polaris System Development: Bureaucratic and Pro ammatic Success in Government...
...The OSS in World War 11...
...State of the Nation...
...Random House, $7.95...
...The bulk of the book-reprinted newspaper reports from yet another American discoverer of the New China-is apparently padding for the gem at the end: Tuchman’s essay on how FDR turned down Mao’s offers of friendship in 1945...
...God Save This Honorable Cburt: The Supreme Court Crisis...
...of Washington, $9.50...
...Random House, $8.95...
...Harvard, $16, $4.50...
...Based on interviews probably mellowed by comparison with the present...
...hovey Street Press, Cambridge, Mass...
...Little, Brown, $10...
...The Whole-Earth Catalog approach to social action: bibliographies, organizing tips, legal advice, etc., on housing and urban problems...
...The Semblance of Peace: The Political Settlement After the Second World War...
...Comrade George: An Investigation into the Official Story of His Assassination...
...John W. Wheeler-Bennett and Anthony Nicholls...
...Homa e to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays...
...Harvard, $9.95...
...Barbara W. Tuchman...
...The most startling result is that, for all the talk of alienation and social split, the huge majority of people say they are happy with their lives and work...
...By wedging a whole volume of U. S. history into his story, Davis has made the book 850 pages long and given it all the details one could want...
...Even when applied to cotton-candy subjects (of Howard Hughes: “The best thing about Hughes has been his disappearance from the world-for this, if nothing else, he ought not only to have been honored but encouraged by a grateful nation”), Vidal’s mind and prose are the sharpest available...
...Notes from China...
...POLITICAL BOOK NOTES Public affairs books to be published in December...
...Public Pa ers of the Secretaries General of the Unite: Nations...
...Andrew W. Zordier and Wdder Foote, eds...
...Yale, $17.50...
...02139, $2.15...
...Martin’s, $6.95...
...Putnam, $15...
...Kenneth S. Davis...
...William Watts and Lloyd A. Free, eds...
...Through a blur of nostalgia, the author acclaims Mother England’s still-fruitful “special relationship” to the U. S. during the Kennedy years, tempering our native impetuosity in world relations...
...Val R. Lorwin and Jacob M. Price, eds...
...Well-written biography of Roosevelt, running up to the time when destiny beckoned him to the New York governor’s mansion...
...Richard Ashley...
...is hardly challenged by the problems of component repair and inventory stocking...
...Pu%lished in cooperation with the National Council on Hunger and Malnutrition and the Southern Regional Council, Atlanta, Georgia...
...The Dimensions of the Past: Materials, Problems, and Opportunities for Quantitative Work in History...
...FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882-1928...
...The United States and India, Pakistan, Bangladesh...
...The simplest solution, the report concludes, is not to set up another program but to guarantee that everyone has an income to buy food with...
...Brian J. Rothschild, ed...
...of Ealifornia, $2.50...
...A review of changes since the 1968 Hunger U. S. A. report, reminding us of yet another problem that’s forgotten but not gone...
...What progress there’s been has come despite the Department of Agriculture, and because of a few senators (Talmadge, McGovern, -Hollings...
...Thorough, textbookish description of nearly every inch of the Indian subcontinent...
...Red f’rison Movement...
...W. Norman Brown...
...The Conduct and Misconduct of Foreign Affairs...
...Potomac Associates/ Universe, $8.50, $3.95...
...Ballantine, $1.65...
...Columbia, $22.50...
...Convincing evidence that George Jackson was murdered in prison, set in a revolutionary analysis of the prison system...
...There is evidence of success in Chief Justice Burger’s comment on the President’s busing moratorium: “Congress may, of course, take any legislative action it deems necessary to make unmistakably clear its intentions, even to the point of limiting or prohibiting judicial review of its directives...
...While nearly unreadable (using words like “operationalizable”), it asks an important question: “What made the Polaris project succeed when programs like the C-SA or War on Poverty flop...
...Univ...
...How We Lost the War on Poverty...
...Scribner’s, $7.95...
...David Nunnerly...
...Knopf, $12.50...
...One idea is to free the UN from the tyranny of ‘yiniature countries by relegating them to associative” membership...
...Hunger U. S. A. Revisited: A Re ort by the Citizens’ Board of Inquiry into Hun er and Malnutrition in the United States...
...Source Catalog: Communities/Housing...
...Gore 5idal...
...Warm, rich in detail, gracefully done-but disappointingly short on new information...
...Univ...
...Martin’s, $35...
...Brian Urquhart...
...Heroin: The Myths and the Facts...
...Transaction/ Dutton, $6.95, $2.95...
...Johnn , We Hardly Knew Ye: Memoirs of John f. Kennedy...
...Swallow, $2.95...
...The Rise and Decline of Fidel Castro: An Essay in Contem orary History...
...Vast source of well-written information on the origins and results of international maneuverings between 1939 and 1955, complete with 200 pages of documents...
...President Kennedy and Britain...
...Charles Yost...
...From 40 years in diplomacy, Yost draws suggestions for improving our foreign policy and pumping life into international organizations...
...Maurice Halperin...
...This leads to a life-cycle theory of why all projects go downhill: “The team of skilled engineers and administrators assembled to develop a ballistic missile...
...Volume I1 Da Hammarskjold, 1953-1956...
...Collier/Macmillan, $1.25...
...Hammarskjold...
...Kenneth O’Donnell and David Powers with Joseph McCarthy...
...Nixon’s struggle to knock the Court down to size...
...Harvey %. Sapolsky...
...The answers-from bureaucratic infighting to controlled technologycenter on keeping clever people in the program...
...Either the authors are holding something back, or else they’ve already been too generous with reporters...
...Louis M. Kohlmeier, Jr...
...O’Donnell was the closest of all the White House staff to JFK, and Dave Powers probably spent more time with Kennedy than anyone else...
...His Work for the Peo le and Their Res onse to His Death...
...Martin’s, $8.95...
Vol. 4 • December 1972 • No. 10
