POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in December. Beyond the New Deal: Harry s. Truman and American Liberalism. Alonzo L. Hamby. Columbia, $12.95. Black Power/White...
...Warner, $.95...
...Useful compilation of official American statements on Vietnam over the past quarter century...
...Politics and the Housing Crisis Since 1930...
...Just About Everyone Versus Howard Hughes...
...John Hall Fish has written a convincing, well-documented case for the planting of a future decentralized neighborhood, which, he believes, in spite of major setbacks, will eventually grow from this concerted effort...
...The author emerges as a bit of an establishment snob but thoroughly likable anyway...
...It has for years since remained upon the lawful firearms of law-respecting Americans in their homes, in the field, and on the shooting ranges, and not upon the distorted minds and actions of a puny little communist assassin and his likes...
...The author gives us this illumination: “My major concern would be about any hypothetical situation in which Nixon was greatly threatened on both levels, personal and international...
...Avon, $1.25...
...Robert J. Kukla...
...A homosexual thus perceives heterosexual erotica metaphorically, in terms of his own desires, and vice versa...
...What Washin on Said: Administration F. M. Kail...
...Eli S. Chesen, M.D...
...A thorough piece of social science research into the effects of pornography on sexual behavior, concluding that exposure to erotica of all kinds tends only to reinforce behavior patterns, rather than initiating them...
...Michael J. Goldstein, Harold S. Kant...
...Supe ower: A Portrait of America in the 70s...
...The Rights of Students...
...xobert Hargreaves...
...Purports to be a documentary history of gun control and the arguments on both sides, but almost at once the author strips off his cloak of respectability and reveals NRA thinking in all its nakedness: “The focus has now been successfully directed away from the assassin in Dallas...
...Putnam, $6.95...
...David B. Tinnin...
...Avon, $1.25...
...it almost makes you forget the basic question: why was it written at all...
...Black Power/White Control: The Struggle of the Woodlawn anization in Chicago...
...Mort Gerberg...
...Press of Kentucky, $15.25...
...A History of Regulatory Taxation...
...Toma: The Compassionate Cop...
...Woodlawn Association became a major force in the 1960s for community control...
...Discrimination in Labor Markets...
...Stay of Execution...
...James E. Bond...
...The movement has succeeded in surviving countless bouts with Chicago-style reform and deceptively generous federal aid programs, but that’s about all...
...of California, $7.95...
...The columnist tells of his recent struggle against leukemia, with flashbacks to earlier years...
...Orle Ashenfelter, Albert Rees, eds...
...Martin’s, $10...
...American Civil Liberties Union...
...Harper Torchbook, $3.95...
...President Nixon’s Psychiatric Profile...
...Univ...
...Unfortunately the author is the kind of conventional liberal who does not want to deal with the complex reasons for ugliness, monotony, and failure in so much of public housing...
...Pornography and Sexual Deviance...
...An intelligent history of government housing programs by a former FHA and urban renewal official...
...This shallow quickie seeks to capitalize on the nation’s worry about a possible Presidential crack-up...
...Such a dual crisis could present risk...
...Universe, $3.50...
...The Rights of Women...
...Presented almost as a throwawaythe subtitle is “A Sort of Memoir”-it is a truly memorable book...
...This domestic version of Anthony Sampson’s Anatomy of Britain is so intelligently done, so rarely wrong in interpretation, that...
...Princeton, $!f The High Society...
...David Toma with Michael Brett...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in December...
...Wyden, $6.95...
...Hargreaves’ composite “portrait” is made up of highquality journalistic snapshots of every conceivable facet of the American face, from the defense budget to the Mafia, to the mores of Madison Avenue to the madness of Los Angeles...
...The Other Side of Gun Control...
...Each new line of reasoning, the author says, “was advanced to further one argument: that America had to do exactly what it was doing in Southeast Asia...
...Lippincott, $8.95...
...R. Alton Lee...
...An important study, since the Supreme Court opinions hinge on the belief that pornography may induce anti-social behavior...
...Nathaniel S. Keith...
...Stackpole, $8.95...
...Doubleday, $10...
...Princeton, $11 SO...
...Univ...
...All this is fine and would make a much-appreciated gift for newcomers to the country, but if you’ve kept up with the newspapers and magazines for the last few years, you will find virtually nothing new in the book...
...The Rules of Riot: Internal Conflict and the Law of War...
...American Civil Liberties Union...
...Stewart Alsop...
Vol. 5 • December 1973 • No. 10
