Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes Almost to the Presidency. Albert Eisele. Piper. A dual biography of Eugene McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey, in alliance, in persond rivalry, and in ideological battle over...
...The Limits to Growth...
...Pilgrim Press, $2.95...
...American Policy for Peace in the Middle East 1969-1971.Robert J. Pranger...
...Elections for Sale...
...China...
...A lot of Durkheim and Garry Wills in this eminently readable discussion of the various Presidents and their spiritual connections...
...Indiana, $1.95...
...Fred Harris and Mayor John Lindsay...
...The authors cite G. B. Shaw’s comment about the clergyman who wanted to accept money only from sweet old ladies: “He has only to follow up the income of the sweet ladies to its industrial source, and there he will find Mrs...
...Prentice-Hall, Q6.95 Everything bad you ever wanted to know about the automobile, even how it causes nasty weather: “Downtown St...
...The evening is emceed by George Washington and most of the characters speak with the candor of Hadean shades...
...The Populist Manifesto...
...Arlington, $8.95...
...Nicholas Kittrie...
...Dutton, $6.95...
...He seems to mean it...
...D. F. Fleming...
...Liveright, $5.95...
...Washington Square Press, $2.95...
...His own stipend has the same root...
...Prentice-Hall, $6.95...
...Climaxes at a Teamsters’ rally in 1970, where the crowd actually sings, “You do it big, Henry...
...Cover Up...
...Doubleday, $5.95...
...Louis has five more days of thunderstorms a year than a rural area 13 miles upwind with less pollution...
...Declaration of Conscience...
...David Nevin...
...Inside the People’s Republic...
...A travelog of a one-month tour of China by this anti-war group of Asian scholars, uncritical but interesting...
...Gore Vidal’s wit is at its best in this readable, often funny play...
...Political Book Notes Almost to the Presidency...
...Johns Hopkins, $15, $4.95 The Seniori System in Congress...
...So He1 Me God: Religion and the Presidency,% ilson to Nixon...
...Citizen Nader...
...Senate seat in 1970, writes about the high costs of campaigning that compel a candidate to be rich or to sell out...
...Andrew M. Greeley...
...Of the flock of reevaluations now hitting the market, this promises to be one of the best...
...The Bear at the Gate: Chinese Policymaking Under Soviet Pressure...
...A collection of lectures on cities by a former Under Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
...John R. Coyne, Jr...
...A highly intelligent discussion of the corporate responsibility issue, focusing on corporations, stockholders, and universities...
...The first in what promises to be a controversial series of biographies on Ralph Nader...
...Robert C. Wood...
...Campaign biography of Scoop Jackson...
...But it’s not a condemnation of the man so much as an expose of his ideas and those of the time...
...The man who won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting My Lai tells how subsequent officers of the America1 Division, who had no direct involvement with My Lai and its investigation, destroyed evidence to protect the officers who preceded them...
...Simon & Schuster, $6.50...
...Fitzsimons examines both the assumptions behind the Kennedy theories and the logical conclusions to which they lead, the kind of thinking which JFK, the problem solver, the elitist, did not employ...
...Richard D. McCarthy...
...An Evening With Richard Nixon...
...The book is well written at the beginning and the end, with pedestrian lapses in-between...
...Seymour Hersh...
...Houghton Mif-flin, $5.95...
...Gore Vidal...
...Everyone knows about the decline in party loyalty...
...William W. Behrens, Dennis L. Meadows, Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers...
...William W. Prochnau and Richard W.rarsen...
...A Certain Democrat: A Political Bio aphy...
...Steve Bhaerman an8 Joel Denker...
...Eerdmans, $2.45...
...An extraordinary man usually throws contemporary judgment off balance, and that is what Nader has done to McCarry and his sources...
...This we dig, Henry,” to the tune of “Hello, Dolly...
...John G. Simon, Charles W. Powers, Jon P. Gunnemann...
...The Chan Values on Campus...
...Priests in the U. S.: Reflections on a Survey...
...by Bruce Wasserstein and Mark J. Green...
...Jeff Greenfield and Jack Newfield...
...Saturday Review, $7.95...
...Beacon, $12.50...
...Yale, $9.50...
...The Ethical Investor...
...Scribner’s, $5.95...
...The chorus came from “an astonishing assortment of political VIPs...
...Charles McCarry...
...Barbara Hinckley...
...Bantam, $1 SO...
...John Knox, $4.95...
...A practical, readable manual for those interested in making cable television different from network television...
...This novel by the assistant editor of the Times’ op ed page, forsees the election of an Agnew-David Eisenhower ticket in 1976...
...Random House, $7.95...
...Praeger, $4.95, $1.95...
...No Particular Place to Go: The Makin of a Free High School...
...Harold C. Hinton...
...The tribulations of a Democratic-FarmerLabor Party activist in the 6th ward of Minneapolis, from precinct meetings to the Chicago convention...
...And Brock Adams, the liberal Democratic dove congressman, sang on with Charles 0. Carrol, long-time king of King County Republican politicians...
...The Multinationals...
...Doubleday, $6.95...
...Muskie of Maine...
...Impudent Snobs: Agnew vs...
...Originally entitled The Last of the Cold War Liberals...
...The author, a British M.P., finds them analagous to the Catholic Church of the past...
...Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars...
...Random House, $7.95...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...If you can take 300 pages of diagrams, flow charts, graphs, and other rigorous proof of man’s predicament, this report is convincing -and gloomy...
...The author leaves out most of JFK’s counter-tendencies, such as the testban treaty, and in that sense this book could be called one-sided...
...Far more, who may still describe themselves as Democrat or Republican, are actually ticket-splitters who, largely on the basis of information received from television news, perceive themselves as voting more on the basis of the candidate’s ability or personality than his party identification...
...Ronald A. Buel...
...The book as a whole: thin but timely...
...Walter DeVries and V. Lance Tarrance...
...Random House, $4.95...
...The Necessary Majority: Middle America and the Urban Crisis...
...Praeger, $5.95...
...Ward Number Six...
...Christopher Tugendhat...
...A handy catalog of diplomatic events...
...b Arthur Schlesinger, Jr...
...Louise Fitzsimons...
...Get These Men Out of the Hot Sun...
...Herbert Mitgang...
...Random House, $6.95...
...Doubleday, $5.95...
...With Justice for Some: An Indictment for the Law...
...Occasionally the reader sinks into the mud of obvious pieties, but it’s never long before he hits the sound rock of original thought, and in the end those thoughts, and the careful analysis bring him to a solid perception of where we now stand in history, and where we have to go...
...Daniel Y ankelovicy f nc...
...McGovern: A Biography...
...The Right to be Different: Deviance and Enforced Therapy...
...Robert Sam Anson...
...Anything that has lasted as long as American imperialism must have something to recommend it, observes the author, who then sets about his task: “to redesign a discredited form of government, imperialism, so that it will work...
...The authors have a frank and accurate sense of the book‘s limitations-rushed history, weak spots in economics, and a shallow strategy for how the coalition will come together-so they concentrate on fleshing out populist issues like health, taxes, banks, and utilities, in sharp, compact essays...
...A lucid, thoughtful portrait of Kennedy as cold warrior...
...The Issues of hrvival...
...A literate journalist who spent much of the past three years following the candidate, has written a book that is a considerable cut above the usual campaign biography...
...The result is often reminiscent of Fields and West, i.e.: “Washington: ‘It says here that we’ll be doing Mr...
...Max” McCarthy, former congressman, author of The Ultimate Folly, and one of the many casualties of the bloody battle for New York’s U.S...
...This book says it’s even greater than we think, that the polls don’t give an accurate picture when they identify only a small percentage of the voters as independents...
...The Ticket-Splitters: A New Force in American Politics...
...McGraw-&, $12.?0...
...An intelligent study of the candidate from South Dakota that, while generally sympathetic, captures the central problem in a comparison of Bob Kennedy, “who could drive thousands to a frenzy,” and McGovern, “who could lose himself in a crowd of half a dozen...
...These provide a good catalog for somewhat familiar outrages...
...Universe...
...The Imperial Republic: Speculations on the Future, if any, of the Third U.S.A...
...A rather scholarly treatment of Chinese foreign policy toward the Soviet Union and the United States since the Sino-Soviet split...
...Other criticisms come off as pot shots, and they have already aroused indignation in the Nader camp...
...One might expect that these two unlikely populists would do for the little man what Bernstein did for the Panthers, but the book comes off as a good prologue for the next round of populist effort...
...He must either share the world’s guilt or go to another planet...
...Dead End: The Automobile in Mass Transortation...
...David Lebedoff...
...King and emperors frequently felt their positions to be overshadowed by its international organization, its influence on national policies, and its immense buildings and tracts of land...
...Includes a long interview with Chou En-lai...
...The Coming to Power: Critical Presidential Elections in American Histo ed...
...Lou Cannon...
...McCarry sees that the paranoia of accused corporate officials is often mirrored by an equal paranoia in Nader, and this is perhaps his best critical insight into the man...
...It is public policy’s greatest challenge to enlarge upon such choices as seem possible in given circumstances, rather than to drown in the drift of diffident realities...
...A dual biography of Eugene McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey, in alliance, in persond rivalry, and in ideological battle over the course of liberalism...
...The international corporations, based in one country with subsidiaries around the globe, are still another threat to the ability of nations to control their economic destinies...
...Arbor House, $6.00...
...There are a few nice moments of candid description-moral tirades in the mimeograph room, the dialogues of door-to-door canvassing- buried beneath excruciating details of local political intrigue...
...The McCloskey Challenge...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...Gerald W. Johnson...
...The authors build up ethical guidelines for investment decisions, but they cannot achieve total moral purity for students who benefit from university stockholdings in questionable companies...
...the Intellectual Establishment...
...Robert S. Alley...
...The cabinet includes Walt Rostow, Harold Carswell, Joseph Alsop, and Sam Yorty . I. F. Stone is reporting from exile in Canada...
...Random House, $6.95...
...Margaret Chase Smith...
...2.95...
...On the whole, worth reading...
...The State of the Cities: The Report of the Commission on the Cities in the 70s...
...The Kennedy Doctrine...
...The author concludes that less help is generally a good idea in foreign affairs...
...Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $7.95...
...Arnie Weinmeister, burly ex-pro football player and boss of the Teamsters, was elbow to elbow with Norton Clapp, top man of the Weyerhaueser industrial complex, a Republican fat cat...
...The difficulty of interpretation drives the author to higher considerations: “If destiny consists, in part, of historical necessity, it still opens future opportunities as well...
...Warren’s profession and the poisonous canned meat and all the rest of it...
...Nixon in depth.’ Kennedy: (drily) ‘You won’t drown.’ ” The play may not offer innovative political analysis, but some of the characters are brilliantly drawn, and that in itself is revealing...
...Columbia, $5.95...
...There is blind praise, the jealousy of people who think Nader has gotten credit for their efforts, and shrill defensiveness from his targets...
...Cable Television: A Guide for Citizen Action...
...Inside of 100 years, at our current growth rates-and even accounting for projected declines in population and pollution controls-our whole “world system” will break down...
...Monroe Price and John Wicklein...
Vol. 4 • March 1972 • No. 1
