POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
POLITICAL BOOK NOTES Public affairs books to be published in September. Academic Rebellion in the U. S. Bettina Aptheker. Citadel, $6.95. Airports and Congestion: A Problem of Misplaced...
...God Save This Honorable Court...
...When in Doubt, Mumble...
...Schenkman, $8.95, $4.95...
...R. Buckminster Fuller...
...A thorough and well-written account of the politics and people involved in the Roosevelt New Deal program to hire writers to keep them from starving...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $5.95...
...Michael Dorman...
...Treats aerodynamic safety about the same way as J treats sex...
...Harper &Row, $10...
...Safety Last: The Dangers of Commercial Aviation, An Indictment by an Airline Pilot...
...Naturally some good (hair-raising) stuff, but really loaded down with insignificant remarks...
...Grosset & Dunlap, $10...
...Atheneum, $12 S O . Memoirs, Volume 11: 1950-1963...
...American Enterprise Institute, $5.75...
...Potomac Associates/ Universe, $6, $2.25...
...Differences arise on the form of management required, with the doctors predictably less sanguine about government control of and lay participation in a national policy, both favored by the public...
...Alfred W. McCoy, Cathleen R. McCoy, and Leonard P. Adams...
...The Fall of the American University...
...Robert C. Fellmeth, ed...
...Joseph M. Belth...
...Test Pattern for Living...
...Prison...
...Life Insurance...
...A Hedda Hopper of the Hill...
...Urban Institute, $10.95, $6.50...
...It might provide an invaluable study in urban decay, but Michael Dorman has not lived up to his material: too much before and after, not enough in-between and a touch of sentimentality out of place in this tragedy...
...The Unions...
...John Coyne idea behind this book is one whose time has come: the best “college” education to be had is the one you get on your own...
...By the coordinating editor of the project...
...International Monetary Problems...
...Captain X. Dial, $7.95...
...There is a cumulative wisdom in these ruminatings from the hills of Kentucky...
...The Real Teachers: 30 Inner-City Schoolteachers Talk Honestly About Who They Are, How They Teach, and Why...
...Quadrangle, $6.95...
...Udal1 must have better stories to tell than the ones he reported back to his constituents in these 23 self-serving newsletters...
...Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery: And U on Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them...
...Michael Dorman...
...Selma Muchkin, ed...
...McKay, $7.95...
...J. Douglas Brown...
...Praeger, $7.95...
...Doubleday, $5.95...
...Black Image: Education Copes with Color...
...Harper &Row, $7.95...
...Van Nostrand Reinhold, $5.95...
...Who Is An ela Davis...
...Caprock Press, $8.95, $4.95...
...Grossman, $2.95...
...Warren Weaver, Jr...
...A person’s impassioned letters are a distorting perspective, so perhaps it’s unfair to say, on the basis of these missives, that Berrigan is a touch mad...
...The first section details how teaching talent out there can be used...
...Delacorte, $6.95...
...2.45...
...ABC-CLIO, $11, $4.85...
...Adam Ulam...
...Jonathan David, $7.95...
...A PPBS-type cost-benefit anal@ sees continued environmental prosperity marred only by conflicting priorities-like when a swimmer gets tangled up in a fisherman’s line...
...Nixon’s Quest for Peace...
...Grossman, $6.9...
...Grossman, $10...
...John Hohenburg...
...Interview snatches with inmates and complete gamut of staff at several prisons...
...Without saying anything new, the book says the old things very well...
...The Kennedy Neurosis...
...He was the one American press lord who really had the kind of power portrayed in Citizen Kane...
...POLITICAL BOOK NOTES Public affairs books to be published in September...
...Cuts through the fog of Herniology (hernia-giving terminology) to reveal the computer-based efficiency of the “ole BS” (Bureaucratic System) where “inputs conform to the programs designed to process them...
...David E. Smith and George R. Gay, eds...
...ABC-CLIO, $1 1.95 .* Essays on an America in Transition...
...Norton, $10...
...Nicholas Johnson...
...Nancy G. Clinch...
...Simon & Schuster, $8.95...
...Grossman, $6.95...
...How CBS Tried to Kill a Book...
...Ralph Nader, Peter J. Petkas, Kate Blackwell...
...Continuing Care in a Community Hos ital...
...The authors wander off into a guide to experimental colleges for which they seem to have extraordinary enthusiasm, given their earlier cogent rejection of educational institutions...
...Luce/McKay, $6.95...
...I proceeded out of the hall, bobbing underneath this tremendous papier-mache and burlap figure, got into a panel truck and away...
...Prentice-Hall, $5.95...
...The Darkening Land...
...The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Woman’s Liberation...
...His pen seems a valve through which unbearable pressure hisses...
...Lippman, Liberty and the Press...
...The Crip led Giant...
...Individual and Collective Responsibility: Massacre at My Lai...
...The Nixon Doctrine...
...W. A. Swanberg...
...Sowing the Wind: Pesticides, Meat, and the Public Interest, Harrison Wellford...
...John Kidner...
...The book makes a significant inroad, even if it does end up humming under a tree...
...Without meaning to, it illustrates the ethical chaos in a movement that attacks litter and extinction simultaneously...
...Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb...
...A useful, scattershot environmental education...
...The Statesman’s Yearbook, 1972-1973...
...Thomas Sowell...
...Fred Kwesi Hayford...
...You and Your Pension: Why You May Never Get a Penny and What Should be Done About It...
...A book that both his friends and enemies can appreciate, each in his own way...
...It’s hard to imagine an account of that plunge into hellish oblivion that wouldn’t be...
...Scribners, $12.50...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...Barry A. {asset...
...C. Brown, $2.95...
...Susan Jacoby...
...Harper & Row, $7.95...
...Coward McCann & Geoghegan, $6.95...
...Joseph C. Goulden...
...The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers’ Project, 1935-1943...
...American Enterprise Institute, $4...
...It’s SO Good Don’t Even Try It Once: Heroin in Perspective...
...The Politics of Land: The Ralph Nader Task Force Report on Land Use in the State of California...
...phic Review...
...Competent, but humdrum survey of U. S. foreign policy in Asia and the sub-continent...
...William J. Small...
...John Wright...
...Critical, but fair biography of Walter Lippman, who wrote books deploring the public’s hopeless, but unerring capacity for poor judgment, yet eloquently defends the publication of the Pentagon Papers...
...Beyond Black and White...
...Complete details on who drinks coffee, what the warden eats for lunch, etc...
...A Nation of Strangers...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $6.95...
...Not only valuable as dissent, Kennan’s readable portrayal of detrimental congressional influence on foreign policy, today pre-empted by the Executive branch, serves as a warning away from extremes in either direction...
...Library Press, $7.95...
...John Paton Davies...
...Like the evening news...
...For banality, the conservative Leibman proves to be Coffin’s equal in this less than classic debate-were it a gunfight, both would be dead...
...James A. Robinson...
...Whistle Blowing...
...Peter H. Wykn/McKay, $5.9...
...Indiana University, $6.95...
...Henry D, Spalding...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $8.50, $3.95...
...New Era in the Pacific...
...The Kidner Report: A Guide to Creative Bureaucracy...
...Who Makes the Laws: The Le 'dative Roles of Three Senate Committees...
...Dan Larkins...
...Meany...
...America is Hard to Find...
...Wendell Berry...
...Hidden Injuries of Class...
...A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural...
...Willis D. Hawley and James Svara, eds...
...McJCay, $6.95...
...Ral h Nader and Mark J. Green...
...Princeton, $8.50...
...Bantam, $1.25...
...When Parochial Schools Close: A Study in Educational Financing...
...John Cohane...
...Frank Van der Linden...
...The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia...
...The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson, Volume I: Be innmgs of Education, 1900-1941...
...George F. Kennan...
...Inside America: A Black African Diplomat Speaks Out...
...White Papers for an Outra ed Conservative...
...Stephen P. Strickland...
...William Longgood...
...Houghton Mifflin, $5.95...
...Grossman...
...Leonard J. Berry...
...Drags up every manipulation, fornication, and fraud known to the Congress...
...J. William Fulbright...
...Random House, $8.95...
...Jean D. Grambs and John C. Carr, eds., Wm...
...Gulf...
...Grossman...
...Price of Empire...
...Still, sufficient consensus exists for policymakers to act on...
...Random House, $6.95, $1.95...
...Federal Lending Programs...
...Scribners, $7.95...
...Emily Jane Goodman...
...Minorities in America: A Eio,”,mg$e for Teachers...
...David Rodnick...
...Knopf, $6.95...
...Better than most books of this kind...
...Doubleday, $10...
...A Europeanized black comments on his developing black pride as reaction to U. S. prejudice...
...The deterioration in the last 20 years of Hunts Point (a section of the Bronx) from an especially congenial and self-respecting neighborhood into a subghetto wasteland...
...Constance Smith and Anne Freedman...
...Airports and Congestion: A Problem of Misplaced Subsidies...
...Walter Political Power and the Press...
...Utopia or Oblivion...
...An earnest but uninteresting account of the author's experiences as student and professor...
...Martin’s Press, $13.95...
...Little, Brown, $12.50...
...Where the Wasteland Ends...
...Random Rouse, $6.95, $1.95...
...Leonard Kriegel...
...Amid the prolific bad poetry, compulsive blather, and mish-mash of reality and mysticism, a kind of hypnotic genius surfaces every so often, transporting the mind one knows not where...
...The Economics of Environmental Quality...
...Philip Sterling, ed...
...The Seventies: Problems and Proposals...
...Jones P. Comer...
...Moscow Conversations...
...Harvard, $10...
...Working Through...
...Robert L. Peabody, ed...
...Longgood mourns a dead pigeon and a dead ocean with equal intensity...
...An American Philosophy of Social Security: Evaluation and Issues...
...The Study of Community Power: A Biblio8ra...
...Andrew Weil...
...A funny book from the greatest mumbler, finger tapper, and dynamic inactivist of them all...
...J. William Fulbright...
...Peter A. French, ed...
...Harvard, $8...
...John Paxton, ed...
...What would seem to be effective live just doesn’t seem to come off in print...
...Jerre Mangione...
...U. S. Health Care: What's Wrong and What's Right...
...John Luskin...
...Irving Howe and Michael Harrington, eds...
...Making of a Slum...
...Fritz Machlup, Armin Gutowski, Friedrich A. Lutz...
...Louis Kohlmeier...
...Bobbs-Merrilf $10...
...Acropolis, $5.95, $3.50...
...You and Your Congressman...
...Good reading for anyone interested in the subject matter...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $10...
...The most original material is the description of the Brooklyn branch of Long Island University -a university of losers, drop-outs, and crackpots on the dim borders of a city wilderness...
...American Enterprise Institute...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $6.50...
...Norton, $8.95...
...This Way Out: A Guide to Alternatives to Traditional Education in the United States, Euro e, and the Third World...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...What McNamara did for the Pentagon, the authors do for evolution...
...Acropolis, $6.95...
...Simon & Schuster, $11.95...
...See Suzannah Lessard’s review in this issue of The Washington Mon th ly . The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Higher Consciousness...
...The Nixon Nobody Knows...
...The Tenant Survival Book...
...Midge Decter...
...Both Your Houses...
...The last part is a compendium of ordinary, Peace Corpsish advice about how to get on in the Third World...
...avid E. Price...
...Viking, $1 1.95...
...Schenkman, $6.95, $2.95...
...For instance, of his escape from the FBI at Cornell, he writes: “I made my escape through a dramatic troupe, the Bread and Puppet Theater, borrowing one of their large, marvelous puppets of one of the apostles...
...I think it was a metaphor of how one may make his escape into a deeper underground, almost in a Greek Mythological sense, into a deeper reality, through drama, in such a way that one’s escape may become, from another point of view, his return...
...Another futile attempt to combine an analysis of Marx with a description of what a Bronx washerwoman does all day...
...Melvin R. Laird, Robert P. Griffin, Gale W. McGee, Thomas C. Schelling...
...Saturday Review Press, $6.95...
...Fairly obvious, juvenile account...
...Edith Efron...
...James H. Boren...
...Daniel Berrigan...
...Ross D. Eckert...
...Approves of Asia’s rise to autonomy as it’s too much for us to handle ourselves...
...Charles W. Roll, Jr...
...James C. Hite, Hugh H. Macaulay, James M. Stepp, Bruce Yandle, Jr...
...Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown, $10...
...Luce and His Empire...
...and Albert Cantril: Basic Books, $6.95...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...Favorite sayings of the Nixon Adminstration’s only hippie...
...Sympathetic...
...Public Prices for Public Products...
...A surprising consensus on the need for some form of national health insurance emerges from this statistical study of professional and lay opinion...
...Dragon by the Tail: American, British, Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and Each Other...
...Hunts Point has become a place in which a resident has a one-in-twenty chance of dying a natural death, in which addicts steal plumbing and leave the water gushing while police look on, and where grocery wholesalers refuse to deliver to local stores...
...Haynes Johnson and Nick Kotz...
...Harold N. Willard and Stanislav V. kasl...
...Luce, $7.50...
...Voluntary Associations: Perspectives on the Literature...
...Beacon Press, $7.95...
...Theodore Roszak...
...Polls: Their Use and Misuse in Politics...
...The Education of a Con essman: The Newsletters of Morris K. U%l...
...Leadershi Development for Public Service...
...and Morris I. Leibman...
...Nash, $6.95...
...The Political Science Annual: An International Review, Volume 111, 1972...
...Black Education: Myths and Tragedies...
...Dull, sanctimonious history of relations between the press and the government by the Washington bureau chief of CBS...
...A satirical handbook for aspiring bureaucrats...
...If Dan Ellsberg is right in finding the roots of Vietnam in the fact that American policy since 1950 has been based on each administration’s saying to itself that we can’t lose another China before the next election, then, as this book makes absorbingly clear, the man mainly responsible for their fear of losing another China (and thus mainly responsible for Vietnam) was Henry R. Luce...
...Santa Barbara Board of Education...
...Pocket Books, $1.25...
...Ralph Nader and Kate Blackwell...
...A soothing spirit, though not because he makes you feel all is well...
...The book, full of anecdotes and individual histories, is absorbing nonetheless...
...Vance Packard...
...Martin A. Larson...
...tarrington Moore, Jr...
...University of Alabama, $7.95...
...William Sloane Coffin, Jr...
...The Incredible George Wallace...
...Small on Safety: The Designed-In Dan ers of Grossman, $%I95...
...Analyzes 16 cities which have had to deal with absorption of parochial students into public systems...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $5.95...
...Corporate Power in America...
...Re ina Nadelson...
...Civil Disobedience: Aid or Hindrance to Justice...
Vol. 4 • September 1972 • No. 7
