Political Book Notes
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in March. The American Enterprise Institute Bu $et and Resource Allocation Projection Mo el. Paul N. Courant. American...
...the correspondents are specially selected for their lack of a point of view...
...Regnery, $6.95...
...Hawthorne, $10...
...Beacon, $7.95...
...Joan Morris...
...Hogarth Press-Hawaii, $3.25...
...Houghton-Mifflin, $5.95...
...Beacon, $10/$2.95...
...Labyrinths of Democracy: Ada tations, Linkages, Representation and Poficies in Urban Politics...
...Eyewitness to History: The Memoirs and .Reflections of a Foreign Correspondent for Half a Century...
...Impeccable as far as it goes, but weirdly detached from political reality...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $10...
...Doubleday, $7.9 5 / $2.9 5. The Retreat of American Power...
...Too much of this book gives the impression of intelligence deliberately blinkered...
...A fine job by the man who exposed the Black Panthers' numbers game...
...Dutton, $8.95...
...Henry where even Norman Mailer failed, Cooper, a New Yorker writer, manages to make an account of a moon flight interesting...
...Boris I. Bittker...
...Simon & Schuster $6.95...
...Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph...
...A readable, scholarly study of the continually intriguing Henry Wallace, the first of the anti-cold war liberals...
...k e r i c a n Enterprise Institute, $3...
...Lisle A. Rose...
...University of Wisconsin, $15 /$3.95...
...Edward Jay Epstein...
...Richard Stern...
...and Corazon M. Siddayao...
...Notes of a Witnes: Laos and the Second Indochmese War...
...Power, Greed and Stu idity in the Mental Health Racket...
...Not a substitute for a lawyer, but a handbook for discussing divorce intelligently with your lawyer, this surprisingly well-written and comprehensible guide is marred only by a strong middle-class bias...
...Defeat of an Ideal: A Stud of the Self-Destruction of the Unitedr Nations...
...The Case for Black Re arations...
...Random House, $7.95/$1.95...
...and the audience is assumed to be dull-witted and uninformed...
...Divorce: What A Woman Needs to Know...
...Geoffrey Perrett...
...Heinz Eulau and Kenneth Prewitt...
...Robin Blackburn, ed...
...For Peace and Justice: Pacifism in America, 191 41941...
...Warren BeMiS...
...Beyond Bureaucracy: Essays in the Develop ment and Evolution of Human Organization...
...A World Elsewhere: The New American Foreign Policy...
...Shirley Hazzard...
...Scott R. French...
...The Politics of International Organization...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...The Rise and Fall of the People's Century: Henry A ard Wallace and American Liberalism, 19&-1948...
...Salisbury, who claims to be “at home in every communist nation in Europe and Asia,” provides an enthusiastic, but disappointingly unprofound collection of traveler’s tales...
...Johns Hopkins, $$$1.95...
...Brandon is especially cautious in discussing Nixon and Kissinger, so that instead of applying critical judgment to White House policies, he merely explains them...
...Still, the essay .by the managing editor of Foreign Affairs is a stylishly written overview of Nixon’s foreign policy...
...But many of his chapters read like flat, newspaperish versions of current events...
...Henry Brandon...
...Increasin the Supply of Medical Personnel...
...After Yalta: America and the Origins of the Cold War...
...Scribner’s, $5.95...
...Isaac Don Levine...
...Franklin Watts, $2.95...
...Another episode in the continuing romance between The New York Times and Mao’s China...
...Praeger, $8.95...
...Oxford, $7.50...
...in Social Science: Readings in ICdreit0iclao PS ocial Theory...
...Paul Blanshard...
...John Friedmann...
...To Peking and Beyond...
...Knopf, $6.95...
...He likens Apollo 13, which survived an explosion en route to the moon, to the Titanic, “another craft that was admired as a nation’s greatest technical achievement...
...Although still providing more technical information than you’d ever want to know, Cooper skillfully probes NASA’s conviction that the Apollos were virtually fail-safe...
...William H. Boyer...
...Colman McCarthy...
...Excellent analysis of.why the UN has been such a bust...
...the details this book adds are of limited interest to the general reader...
...Felizitas Leu-Romeiss...
...Refreshingly free from the simple-minded idealism that usually accompanies descriptions of the UN...
...Strate and Pro m: Two Essays Toward a New pmerican Eialism...
...Retracking America: A, Theory of Societal Planning...
...The Stru e for Human Dignity...
...The Black Muslims in America...
...A lot of pages in service of a simple point: that the Nixon who met Mao is different from Alger Hiss’ old tormentor...
...The Powell Affair: Freedom Minus One...
...Carolyn G. Heilbrun...
...James David Barber’s The Presidential Character and Gary Wills’ Nixon Agonistes remain the best books on Nixon...
...Norton, $f95...
...William A. Niskanen...
...Westminster, S 5 . h . Power Over People, Louise B. Young...
...An mtelligent combination of politics and economics that also manages to portray the human beings involved as more than onedimensional...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $15...
...The Leanmg Ivo Tower...
...Nash, $10...
...An excerpt from this book appeared in the January, 1973, issue of The Washington Monthly...
...Philip Stern...
...Lloyd C. Gardner, ed...
...The town Iost, but this book makes the struggle worthwhile...
...The Politics of Normalcy, Governmental Theory and Practice in the Hardin Coolidge Era...
...Quadrangle, $7.95...
...Warren G. Bennis...
...Richard F. buth...
...Houghton Mifffn...
...Harrison E. Salisbury...
...McCraw-Hill, $2.95...
...Staughton Lynd Gar Alperovitz...
...Putnam, $4...
...Charles Chatfield...
...A China Passa e. John Kenneth Galbraith...
...Graceful, provocative essays, revised from the author’s Washington Post columns...
...Toward A Recognition of Androgyny...
...The Rape of the Taxpayer...
...An article by one of the authors appears in this issue...
...One of the more readable Nader reports, combining medical and technical information with a sound legal analysis of why the government hasn’t done what it should about job safety...
...Beacon, $4.45...
...The City: New Town or Home Town...
...Legal and constitutional arguments that blacks deserve compensation for years of Jim Crow...
...the number of camera crews is so limited that they must mainly cover staged events...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $8.50...
...Scribner’s, $7.95...
...The World of Time, Inc: The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise, 1941-1960...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in March...
...First-hand story of a small town's fight to keep the big electric companies away...
...James Chace...
...Jossey-Bass, $7.93: An interesting description of how the culture of bureaucracy manifests itself in academia...
...Education for Annihilation...
...Beacon, $5.95/$2.95...
...Ken Metzler...
...is a new species of pusillanimity, whose tenacity, energies, and invectiveness are concerted not only toward inaction but to pugnacious defense of the Drocedural rightness of inaction”) and an over-long probe into Dag Hammarskjold’s psyche...
...Disturbers of the Peace...
...Pantheon, $8.95/$2.95...
...Sidney Rutberg...
...Leland M. Goodrich, David A, Kay, eds...
...The book is marred only by patches of tortured prose (“what has evolved...
...Leslie E. Ten Cents on the Dollar or, The Bankruptcy Game...
...News From Nowhere...
...Doubleday, 8.95...
...Walter Rscher, Jose h Mehr, Philip Truckenrod...
...Marek Thee...
...Confrontation: The Destruction of a College President...
...Free Press, $8.95...
...Atheneum, $10...
...Community Or nizin George Brager, Harry Specht...
...Macmillan, $5.95...
...Norman Markowitz...
...Robert T. Elson...
...C. Eric Lincoln...
...The author shows from time to time-as when developing a general theme of American withdrawal-that he is capable of fine analysis...
...Atlantic-Little, Brown, $8.50...
...Norton...
...The book has its virtues-most striking are a series of participant accounts of life during the Cultural Revolution-but too often the tone is: “If it was not the finest meal we had enjoyed in China, that was because we had so many remarkable dinners that only an epicure could choose among them...
...The Lady Was a Bishop: The Hidden History of Women as Priests, Abbots and Bishops...
...Public Housin An Fconomic Evaluation...
...Random House, $7.95...
...Chicanos and Rural Pover . Vernon M. Briggs, Jr...
...The book consists of a lackluster introductory essay and reprinted articles by journalists, academics, and the President himself...
...The author explains the blandness of television news: the FCC's "fairness" doctrine is interpreted to require pro and con interviews, even though either position may be totally without merit...
...Random House, $10...
...Cormbiahiversity, $10...
...The Great Nixon Turnaround: America’s New Foreign Policy in the Post-Liberal Era...
...Andrew Jacobs, Jr...
...The New Earth Catalog...
...Although by no means belonging to the “bulk equals profundity” school of criticism, we still find it hard to justify a $5.95 price for a 107-page book...
...The major points will be familiar to those who have read The Grapes of Wrath...
...Despite the title, the book’s real focus is migratory labor problems...
...The Books in Fred Hampton’s Apartment...
...Charles 4 Stewart, Jr...
...Budget Process: Structural Reform...
...Random House , $1 2.5 0/$2.9 5. Personal and Controversial: An Autobiography...
...Bitter Wages: Ralph Nader’s Study Group Report on Disease and Injury on the Job...
...Barbara B. Hirsch...
...Joseph A. Page, Mary Win O’Brien..Grossman, $6.95...
...This well-written social history falls tantalizingly short of the author’s goal: explaining just what it was about World War I1 America that made the whole country work...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...Thirteen: The Fli t That Failed...
...Robert K. Murray...
Vol. 5 • March 1973 • No. 1
