POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
POLITICAL BOOK NOTES Public affairs books to be published in April. American Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957. Joseph R. Starobin. Harvard, $12.95. An American Death: The True Story of...
...Norton, $6.95...
...A highly readable account of the Fortas case by the man who is responsible for Newsweek’s fine coverage of the Justice Department and the Supreme Court...
...Three Faces of Revolution: Communism in the 1970s...
...Praeger, $8.95, $3.95...
...13 S O . In the Name of Profit: Profiles in Corporate lrres onsibility...
...This is a nice collage of satire and non-technical essays by the economics specialist of The New York Times editorial board...
...Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics and Revolution...
...The Election Game and How to Win It...
...Charles E. McLure, Jr...
...Westminster, $10.95...
...Grossman, y8.95...
...Paul H. Douglas...
...Praeger, $5.95...
...Atheneum, $10...
...Jules Witcover...
...Doubleday, $10...
...CharLs Walton Ackely...
...James BEmgarten...
...Public Affairs Press, $10...
...Robert Shogan...
...Pantheon, $10...
...Intro...
...The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics...
...Columbia, $8, $2.95...
...Doubleday, $6.95...
...The great woman speaks with her usual wisdom, persuasiveness, and opacity...
...Funk and Wagnalls, $6.95...
...U Against the Wall (Street...
...Roots of War: The Men and Institutions Behind U. S. Foreign Policy...
...Murray L. Weidenbaum and Dan Larkins...
...Random House, 5 10...
...Seymour Sacks...
...Reapportionment: Law, Politics, Computers...
...Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress...
...Nixonomics: How the Dismal Science of Free Enterprise Became the Black Art of Controls...
...Barnet’s best book...
...Random House, $5.95...
...PrenticeHall, $6.95...
...Unquestioned Obedience to the President: The Case Against the Legality of the War in Vietnam...
...Prentice-Hall, $6.95...
...Prentice-Hall, $6.95...
...George McGovern...
...The Infiltrators: The Euro ean Business Invasion of America...
...Bill Lawrence...
...In short, if we have difficulty discovering the real Nixon, I believe that our President has even greater difficulty...
...Press, Politics, and Popular Government...
...John Lewis Gaddis...
...Fred Schwarz...
...Heath Lexington, $10...
...Ted Kennedy: Triumphs and Tra edies...
...In attempting to apply what he calls psychohistory to the perennial question of who is the real Richard Nixon, the author ends up roughly where the reader began...
...Michael Novak...
...Joseph Napolitan...
...Dou E leday, $6.95...
...Touched with the courtier’s affection for his boss, one of President Nixon’s former special assistants writes a rather lame and fawning account of his boss’ sufferings at the hands of the left-wing media...
...Robert Heilbroner et al...
...Charles Peters and Taylor Branch...
...James F. Ahern...
...Richard J: Barnet...
...Hawthorn, $5.95...
...Roger L. Shinn...
...Abingdon, $5.95...
...Clark R. Mollenhoff...
...A lively, wellwritten tour through the people and ideas that make U. S. foreign policy...
...Wars and Rumors of Wars...
...The Modem Military in American Society: A Stud in the Nature of Military Power...
...An engrossing chronicle from one of the more effective political media managers...
...White Knight: The Rise of S iro Agnew...
...Six Presidents, To6 Many Wars...
...Irving Brant...
...The author is weak and a bit defensive when he generalizes about the ethical implications of his profession, but he shows you how it works...
...Robert Buckhorn...
...William H. Hoean...
...An important book by the New Haven police chief who kept things cool during May Day and the Black Panther trials...
...This has just enough information and intelligence to take it out of the realm of fan magazine journalism but not enough to make it worth reading...
...Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, $6.95...
...Saturday Review, $8.95: State, School, and Politics: Research Directions...
...Mazlish, at least, admits the problem, and also that “reductionism, wherein, for ex,ample, a great political figure is stripped down to his oral, anal and genital aspects...is the great danger in applying psychoanalysis to history...
...Grosset and Dunlap, 57.95...
...City Schools/Suburban Schools: A History of Fiscal Conflict...
...It does, however, indicate how the Kernnedys will explain Chappaquiddick: the Senator’s judgment was impaired by head injuries suffered in the crash...
...Hawthorn, $6.95...
...Herbert F. Alexander...
...Impeachment: Trials and Errors...
...Unfortunately missed is the chance to explore Fortas as an example of the kind of liberal Washington lawyer who almost always finds his opportunities for higher service where the flees are even higher...
...The Closed Ente rise System...
...Gerda Lerner, ed...
...Princeton, $10...
...The author’s sense of humor redeems an otherwise familiar tale...
...Columbia, $12.50, $3.95...
...James Keogh...
...Leonard Silk...
...A Washington Monthly Book...
...Martin Luther King, Jr...
...Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich...
...Taplinger, $6.50, $2.95...
...The New Families: Youth, Communes, and the Politics of Drugs...
...Presidents, Bureaucrats, and Foreign Policy...
...Charles H. Hession...
...Syracuse, $9.95, $3.95...
...Leon Friedman and Burt Neuborne...
...Lewis A. Bracker and Waller Wagper...
...A chapter appears in this issue of The Washington Monthly...
...David S. Sullivan and Martin J. Sattler, eds...
...In Search of Nixon: A Psychohistorical Inquiry...
...Indispensable but dull...
...Basic, $6.95...
...Black Women in White America: A Documentary History...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...The Geometry of Hunger...
...President Nixon and the Press...
...Knopf, $5.95...
...Beacon, $7.50...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $10...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...Police in Trouble...
...Macmillan, $5.95...
...Counterrevolution and Revolt...
...Gerold Frank...
...The Trouble with Wall Street...
...Antitrust oversimplified, but redeemed by the documentation...
...Robert G. McCloskey...
...George F. Will, ed...
...Norton, $7.95...
...James Woodruff...
...An American Death: The True Story of the Assassination of Dr...
...Bruce Mazlish...
...Ross V. Speck et al...
...Mark J. Green...
...Who Put the Con in Consumer...
...Blowing the Whistle: Dissent in the Public Interest...
...Quadrangle, $6.95...
...Ted Kennedy: Profde of a Survivor...
...Included is an devastating analysis of the fictions in an FBI report to the President that almost led to an invasion of New Haven by federal troops...
...David Sanford...
...Fiscal Failure: Lessons of the Sixties...
...American Enterprise Institute, $2...
...From Ferdinand Marcos to Hubert Humphrey, Napolitan has worked for scores of candidates, and his account is far more informative than Jerry Bruno’s The Advance Man, though written in the same semi-Breslin style...
...Capitol Hill Press, $7.95...
...Nixon and most all economists come in for a hard time...
...A Question of Judgment...
...POLITICAL BOOK NOTES Public affairs books to be published in April...
...The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947...
...Merriman Smith’s Book of Presidents: A White House Memoir...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...The Modern Supreme Court...
...Change in the International System...
...Timothy G. Smith, ed...
...Michael W. Kirst, ed...
...John Kenneth Galbraith and His Critics...
...Nader: The People’s Lawyer...
...Herbert Marcuse...
...Money in Politics...
...In this regard, one can for the first time admire Nixon’s cagey nature, and his ability to escape through stealth such a profound indignity...
...Also a fine chapter on the rookie policeman and the pressures that turn him into a corrupt cop...
...In the Fullness of Time: The Memoirs of Paul H. Douglas...
...Harper & Row, $6.95...
...An interesting account of the assassination of Martin Luther King from an unlikely source-the co-author of Zsa Zsa Gabor: My Story...
...Basic, $6.95...
...As most sportswriters can write only about what laconic Dallas Cowboy running back Duane Thomas doesn’t say, so the psychoanalysts are condemned to lengthy comment on their inability to fathom Nixon...
...Race War in America...
...Francine du Plessix Gray...
...Stephen C. Shadegg...
...Dutton, $8.95...
...by Jcholas Faith...
...The New How To Win an Election...
...Bob bs-Merrill...
...Hannah Arendt...
...Terry B. O’Rourke...
...Liveright, $5...
...The Federal Budget for 1973: A Review and Analysis...
...Norton, $8.95...
...Lester David...
...Strike Force: Orgarlied Crime and the Government...
...Take Today: The Executive as Dro out...
...D. S. Halacy, Jr...
...I. M. Destler...
...Marshall McLuhan arid Barrington &vitt . Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, $9.95...
...of several cases worse than ITT...
Vol. 4 • April 1972 • No. 2
