POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in February The American Food Scandal: Why You Can’t Eat Well on What You Earn. William Robbins. Morrow, $7.95. Armageddon in the...
...Random House, $7.95...
...Women and Success: The Anatomy of Achievement...
...Irving Louis EIorowitz...
...Heath/Lexington, $12.50...
...President, it constantly amazes me that you always seem to know the right thing to do...
...How to Get to the Future Before It Gets to You...
...Hill & Wang, $12.50...
...Hawthorn, $6.95...
...Power and the Structure of Society...
...Bertrand Russell’s America: Volume 1: 1896-1945...
...Soviet Con uest from Space...
...Norton, $6.95...
...Shepherd Mead...
...While equipped with all the pedantic baggage of a standard doctoral dissertation, this quantitative survey of Midwestern neighborhood participation programs contains some interesting factual insights about the much discussed, but little studied, question of community control...
...Gilbert0 Lopez y Rivas...
...Robert L. Cole...
...The History Makers: Leaders and Statesmen of the 20th Century...
...Many armchair observers have taken great pains to distinguish between symbolic participation and real decision-making power...
...Although these programs often have few concrete accomplishments, Cole found that they do significantly increase the participants’ trust in government...
...Martin’s, $10.95...
...In his attempt to fit everything into a theory, del Vayo brutally simplifies his material...
...As instant history goes, this account of the 1973 Mideast war by the Christian Science Monitor’s correspondent is quite solid and respectable...
...And while Truman’s decisiveness and lack of pretense have a great appeal in these troubled times, even genuine humility begins to cloy after 432 pages...
...Arrigo Levi...
...Viking, $12.50...
...The March of Socialism...
...Simon Kuznets...
...J. Alvarez del Vayo...
...But outside of these pithy hatchet jobs (and 3 most of the really good lines about MacArthur and Eisenhower have already appeared in newspaper articles about the book), this “oral biography” has relatively little to offer...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman...
...He can talk about Right vs...
...But Cole seems to indicate that the psychic rewards of participation (for the few who took part) are rather similar despite vast differences in the autonomy of the programs he analyzed...
...Merle Miller, Putnam, $8.95...
...Monthly Review, $7.95...
...Peter N. James...
...With a man like Jerry Ford just an im64 peachment vote away from the Presidency, it is understandable why the time seems ripe for a Harry Truman Renaissance...
...Dana Adams Schmidt...
...Ruth B. Kundsin, ed...
...Norton, $1 1.95...
...John Day, $8.95...
...This book is an unfortunate form of commemoration, for it succeeds neither in tying 2,000 years of history (from Spartacus through Mao) into a coherent theory of socialism, nor in grappling with some of the dilemmas of modern socialism and communism...
...Norton, $5.95...
...Journey Among the Economists...
...Merle Miller is the kind of fawning questioner who can say with a straight face, “Mr...
...Left anywhere in the world, much as American diplomats used to speak about the monolithic Communist World...
...For example, his finding that the participants were clearly unrepresentative of their neghborhoods raises the very real possibility that neighborhood selfgovernment would generate its own unresponsive elite...
...Karen DeCrow...
...Library Press, $7.95...
...Barry Feinberg, Ronald Kasrils...
...Armageddon in the Middle East...
...Lord Longford, Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, eds...
...Charles Brower...
...This collection of 12 essays by the distinguished editor of Society contains among other things some interesting observations on the growing conservatism of Jews and concludes with an especially thoughtful discussion of political terrorism...
...Robert L. Heilbroner...
...Me and Other Advertisin Geniuses...
...Israeli EcstasieslJewish Agonies...
...James S. Coleman...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in February The American Food Scandal: Why You Can’t Eat Well on What You Earn...
...Citizen Participation and the Urban Policy Process...
...The Chicanos: Life and Struggles of the Mexican Minority in the Umted States...
...Any book -even a Book of the Month Club selectionthat includes observations like “Nixon is a shiftyeyed, goddam liar” can’t be all bad...
...According to Cole, the results of ‘current decentralization efforts are decidedly mixed...
...Oxford, $7.50...
...For those who have given up reading about the latest treaty disputes, the book’s last section does a fine job of explaining the impasse and the underlying hatred...
...The author was Republican Spain’s last foreign minister before Franco took over, and as a political figure he deserves great respect...
...Doubleday, $6.95...
...Sexist Justice: How Legal Sexism Affects You...
...Population, Capital, and Growth...
...Inquiry into the Human Prospect...
Vol. 5 • February 1974 • No. 12
