POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
POLITICAL BOOK NOTES The Death of Progress. Bernard James. Viking, $5.95. Public affairs books to be published in January After Conviction. Ronald L. Goldfarb and Linda R. Singer. Simon &...
...Garrett Park Press, Garrett Park, Md., $4.95, $5.95 by mail...
...War pictures from Northern Ireland...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $8.95...
...Recruiting, Emp 9 oying...
...Though it’s interesting to see extremism turned suddenly around, any real points concerning male manipulation are lost in Vilar’s penchant for the fantastic...
...Richard Hkbert...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...While high-school power seems a little passe, this is an entertaining enough tract...
...Skillful journalism...
...American Enterprise Institute, $2...
...A bit anti-Catholic but nevertheless fascinating in its detail, this book reveals that while the Church is short on cash, it is immensely rich in real estate...
...Useful as the first unbiased biography of Malcolm (the author is a Newsweek editor), but misses the spark that makes the subject seem real...
...GeraPd Rosenblum...
...The Kennedy Promise: The Politics of Expectation...
...Not With a Gun...
...Nino Lo Bello...
...Bobbshorrors of urban highways, concentrating on Merri P 1, $7.95...
...Urban Renewal: National Program for Local Problems...
...Employment Policy at the Crossroads: An Interim Look at Pressures to Be Resisted...
...Equal Employment 0 ortunity for Minority Group Colle e raduates: Locating, Jr...
...Youth Liberation: News, Politics, and Survival Information Put Together by Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor...
...Random House, $15...
...Porter Sargent, $24.95...
...The Manipulated Man...
...Jean Carper...
...Knopf, $7.95...
...Bryan Cooper...
...Manpower costs are soaring not just because of the volunteer army, but because there are more generals now than at the height of World war I1 Elections in South Vietnam...
...of Vatican, U. S. A...
...Henry Hazlitt...
...I. F. Stone...
...Jonathan Bramwell...
...Simon & Schuster, $7.95...
...James iidgeway...
...If the doctor doesn’t zap you with x-rays, your wristwatch or TV will...
...Vilar’s thesis: women have utterly enslaved men to their selfish, mindless ends...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $6.95...
...Jill Johnston...
...The result is a poor imitation of Victor Lasky’s JFK, The Man and the Myth A Land of Our Own...
...Hadley Arkes...
...Sounds like a soap opera at times: “It was already as though he could hear death saying, ‘Malcolm, Malcolm, why have I had to wat so long.’ ” The Washington Monthly/January 1973 Advanced Nations on Indi enous % eoples...
...This book concludes that simpler solutionslike a negative income tax-would be better...
...Robert Sobel...
...Making a spectacle of herself is Jill Johnston’s bag, as she maniacally demonstrates in print...
...Basic, $8.95...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...Excellent story of the Monarch Construction Company fraud, or, “How to embezzle $4 million from poor blacks and get away with it...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3.50...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $5.95...
...A well-documented study of the hazards of radiation...
...Bureaucracy, the Marshall Plan, and the National Interest...
...A plunge into deep governmental thickets, looking for the sources of the Marshall Plan’s success...
...Discussed by Taylor Branch in this issue...
...Morrow, $7.95...
...A book for those who think they can’t be shocked...
...The Battle of Bogside...
...Grossman, $6.95...
...The author’s solution is not extra doses of fiscal policy, but special public-works projects to hire those people private industry won’t touch...
...Creating a New World Politics: From Conflict to Coo eration...
...Courage in Crisis: The Black Professiond Today...
...Regnery, $6.95...
...Caspar W. Weinberger, Gene R. LaRocque, Murray L. Weidenbaum...
...American Enterprise Institute, $5, $2.50...
...Simon & Schuster, $14.95...
...The Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution...
...al., Univ...
...Agony in New Haven: The Trial of Bobby Seale, Ericka Hi ins and the Black Panther Party...
...Putnam, $6.95...
...Varieties of Political Expression in Sociolo y. Robert K. Merton et...
...Norton, $6.95...
...John L. Springer...
...Clive Limpkin...
...Times Change/ Monthly Review, $1.35...
...Inside the S stem...
...Sometimes hard to take as seriously as it’s meant: “We want the immediate end of adult chauvinism...
...Dutton, $10...
...AMEX: A History of the American Stock Exchan e, 1921-1971...
...Daniel P. Moynihan...
...Gene Sharp...
...An autobiography of Golda Meir...
...In spots, this looks like a perceptive addition to the recent mound of Kennedyera history...
...Lawrence M. Friedman...
...Arlington House, $9.95...
...Deadline for the Media: Today’s Challenges to Press, TV and Radio...
...Immigrant Workers: Their Im act on American Labor Radicalism...
...David V. Edwards...
...After sifting the records since 1966, the author concludes that Thieu’s years have been a time of “increasing internal stability” and that the South Vietnamese should be grateful for the bits of democracy they have...
...The Political Economy of Urban Poverty...
...Angela Davis: The Making of a Revolutionary...
...James Aronson...
...Charles Sackrey...
...A The Moving American...
...But most of the time, Fairlie’s Kennedy-phobia runs away with him...
...Someday a good book will be written, linking the long-run causes of energy shortages with an expose of gas and oil companies...
...The Politics of Nonviolent Action...
...Heavy going, but worthwhile...
...Praeger, $8.95, $3.95...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $8.95...
...Simon & Schuster, $7.95...
...Charles Peters, John collection from The Washington Monthly...
...It’s been said that feminist descriptions of woman’s servitude in marriage read like male fantasies rather than real life, This book, the backlash in full swing, reads more like a Machiavellian’s daydream than anything else...
...Rothchild, e Bs...
...Benevolent Aggression: The Im act of Richard N. Farmer...
...McKay, fl0.95...
...The Mutual Fund Trap...
...The author wisely keeps the pathos of her story from seeping into her prose...
...McKay, $6.9...
...Includes a nice study of Flint, Michigan, as GM’s company town...
...The Last Pla : The Struggle to Mono olize the World’s Jnergy Resources...
...Richard F. Muth...
...This is not the book...
...Features the new HEW secretary explaining why the Pentagon is so expensive...
...The Death and Life of Malcolm X. Peter Goldman...
...Simon & Schuster, $14.95...
...Penguin, $4.25...
...Random House, $7.95...
...J. A. Parker...
...Arbor House, $9.95...
...Trident, $6.95...
...Rather than illuminating the reader on the subject of lesbianism, this book causes reader blackout, brought on by being mercilessly beaten over the head with the personality of Jill Johnston...
...Princeton, $12.50...
...Silent Slaughter...
...Getting Out...
...Donald Freed...
...Nash, $12...
...Like Dean Acheson, Stone was present at the creation of the cold war, and he gives a more consistently intelligent view of it...
...Edgar Smith...
...The Truman Era...
...If foreign critics would look at the government’s bright side, Penniman says, Thieu’s opponents in Vietnam would stop demanding “perfection now...
...McKay, 87.95...
...Harper & Row, $8.95...
...Esther Vilar...
...The Politics of A Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Plan...
...The Puerto Rican Papers: Notes on the Emergence of a Nation...
...Henry Fairlie...
...Sixties Going on Seventies...
...Marie Syrkin, ed...
...To celebrate Izzy’s 65th birthday, this 1953 volume of essays is being published again...
...Joel Griffiths, Richard Ballantine...
...Public Housing...
...Another liberal idol bites the dust: urban renewal doesn’t do what it’s supposed to, and it bilks the poor along the way...
...Howard R. Penniman...
...Robert Calvert, The Foundations of Morality...
...The one potentially exciting chapter, on new energy sources, is quoted in its 22-page entirety from the Congressional Record...
...In the author’s one-dimensional world, blind corporate greed is the cause of all ill...
...The final little irony is that federal highway grants cost the cities more than they save, since the tax base drives away to the suburbs as soon as the roads are built...
...George W. Pierson...
...Nora Sayre...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...Highways to Nowhere: The Politics of City Trans ortation...
...John C. Weicher...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $5.95...
...A History of American Law...
...William Fellner...
...Alaska: The Last Frontier...
...The Defense Budget...
...Regnery, $7.50...
...Alfred0 Lopez...
...One misses the other side of the story that is usually included in AEI books...
...An explanation of why so many people are still out of work...
...Despite its length and academic tone, definitely worth reading...
...Good, thorough look at the smaller cities like Indianapolis and Dayton...
...POLITICAL BOOK NOTES The Death of Progress...
Vol. 4 • January 1973 • No. 11
