POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes The Abortion Controversy. Betty Sarvis, Hyman Rodman. Columbia, $7.95. Abortion 11: Making the Revolution. Lawrence Lader. Beacon, $7.95. A wellwritten, and occasionally...
...of Illinois, $10...
...Johns Hopkins, $6.50/2.50...
...political book notes The Abortion Controversy...
...Arlington House, $6.9...
...Brookings, $%.95/3.50...
...Brownstone, $2.9 5. Sweatshops in the Sumi: Child Labor on the Farm...
...Women in Perspective: A Guide For CrossC d t d Studies...
...Random House, $8.95...
...Short and readable...
...Urban Condition...
...David Jenkins...
...Henry Hazlitt...
...Roderick Nash...
...Guillen’s analysis is far more plausible when he speaks of revolutionary prospects of underdeveloped regions rather than developed ones...
...Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail in 1972...
...A good study of scholarly opinion on the subject, which closes with an appeal to reject the dominant and-rigid Wilsonian model and adopt new ones stressing diversification and flexibility...
...Related “existentially,” it is full of good stories and random anecdotes...
...The Death of White Sociolo Joyce A. Ladner, ed...
...Political Prisoners in America...
...Howard Zinn...
...Robert Love...
...Sue-IEllen Jacobs...
...Arthur Woodstone...
...Iowa &ate $7.95...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Indiana, $8.95...
...Atheneum, $8.991 Kissinger: Portrait of a Mind...
...Freedom of the Press For Whom...
...K ~ ~ , f h ~ u Marriaw A Study of Contemporary Multfateral d k i i g e . Larr L. and Joan Ix Constantine...
...Playboy Press, $7.95...
...0 WiEm Battalia, John J. Tarrant...
...Jeffrey ~ ~ Anchor, s3.95 An Untold Stor : The Roosevelts of Hyde Park...
...Atheineum, $10, We Mainline Dreams: The Odyssey House Story...
...My War With the CIA: The Memoirs of Prince Norodom Sihanouk...
...Nixon’s Head...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $5.95...
...Diogenes...
...The Future While It Happened...
...President McGovern’s First Term...
...T. Y: Crowell, $6.95...
...Parties...
...S. relations with Europe, Japan, et al...
...Perspectives in Political Sociology...
...of California...
...Wilson Carey McWilli.ams...
...Updated from the 1972 edition, with new material from the election...
...Don’t be put off by the coyness of the title...
...From there the book deteriorates rapidly in its attempts to prove that the entire world is domiinated by West Point alumni...
...Andrew Maieson, h. D. Hart, $6.95...
...But their description of corporate life is sufficiently full of insight to make the book worth reading, Corporate Lib: Women’s Challenge to Mana ement...
...Doubleday, $4.95...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $8...
...Timber...
...Wilderness and the American Mind...
...Marvelous anecdotes about the CIA’S dirty-trick department are accompanied by a troubling overstatement best suggested by the subtitle, “The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World...
...A fascinating, story of a successful program for rehabilitating heroin addicts...
...In spite of some whimsicality in style, the program itself is hard-headed and realistic...
...Among others, Ralph Nader, Rachel Carson, Kingman Brewster, and assorted “self-flagellators,” ‘‘traSherS,” “fibbers,” If Grayson is Agnew’s special assistant...
...Damnin the West: Ralph Nader’s Study Group keport on the Bureau of Reclamation...
...A Minority of Members: Women in the U. S. Congress...
...The emphasis is on urban, not rural struggle, and the inspiration is Bakunin more than Marx...
...McKay, $7.9.5...
...Macmillan, $ 8 95...
...Beacon, $6.95...
...Postwar America: 1945-1971...
...Scribner’s, $7.95...
...Jraeger, $7.95...
...Singly and in awesome phalanxes, by mail or in person, wheedling or threatening...
...Harvey W. Peters...
...What Went Wrong With American Education and How to Make It IRight...
...The Death of the American University...
...Still, the book will be interesting to students of Washington’s upper reaches in the sixties...
...K. Bruce Galloway, Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr...
...However, the book, a product of a British group, illustrates the dangers of viewing-with-alarm from too great a distance...
...l~$7.95..~ campaign diary by the Chicago Sun-Times "youth” columnist who sets out to “take it all in as a massive, unique road show...
...c. Stanley ~ ~ ~L ~~~ l~ /l’$M.7.5 ~0...
...While Che Guevara’s doctrines are as lifeless today as he is, these translations of Guillen’s work may fill the void for many interested anarchists...
...Freedom at Twilight...
...While it contains tracts on the Crimean Tartars, the Burakumin in Japan, and the Asians in Uganda, there’s nothing on the Asians and blacks in England...
...and the solutions they propose are disappointing palliatives...
...The Corporate Eunuch: An E e-Opening Re rt on the New Executive de-Style...
...Revolutionary Suicide...
...The Fourth World Victims of Group 0$ fJr.e Isnsfioornm...
...Joyce Maynard: Doubleday, $5.95...
...Putnam, $7.95...
...Stephen R. Graubard...
...Claims that those addicts who were forced into the program by the courtis did better than the voluntary patients, “putting an end to the myth that an addict must seek treatment himself in order for it to be successful...
...A Journal of the Pla ue Years...
...Dorothe Matzner, Margaret English...
...This book from Playboy Press panders to lower instincts than the magazine does...
...Two young family counst:lors (husband and wife) have made a proselytizing and ponderous study of a number of American group marriages, complete with appendices listing the size of the marriages surveyed-triads, tetrads, pentads, etc...
...Barbara Howar...
...Hannah S. Hess...
...Hope Chamberlin...
...An End to Hierarchy...
...Really involved in Robert iRnegd ftoor dy’esl l caomutp, ahigeny , dtihlaetm’sm masa...
...John S. Saloma and Frederick H. Sontag...
...Arlington House, $7.95...
...The young manager must be able to perceive the track that leads to that goal...
...Stefan Kanfer...
...The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War...
...Vincent Ostrom...
...Charles Lam Markmann...
...A serious and worthy look at the problems of women’s opportunities and lack of them in upper realms of management...
...Human Connection and the New Media...
...An intelligent analysis of the nine justices who comprise the Burger Court...
...Harvard, $7.95...
...But there are a few good moments, like McGovern, in the middle of the Eagleton thing, watching a Robert Redford movie, The Candidate “as though he was hypnotized...
...Lambasts the phony world of Washington society in a vacuous version of Sou t hern-Gothic-tough-straight-talk...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Ronald B. Tay1o:r...
...Conversion From War to Peace: Social, Economic and Political Problems...
...Princeton, $7.95...
...Hunter S. Thompson...
...As well as a careful look at the way sex discrimination operates, the book deals with the effects women are having and will have on management...
...In His Own Image: The Su reme Court in Richard Nixsn’s America...
...Barry Schwartz, ed...
...H~~~ p. Newton with J. Herman Blake...
...Gordon & Breach, $5.95/2.50...
...However...
...of New Mexico, $10...
...Norton, $4.95...
...Prentice-Ha...
...Gambit, $7.95...
...The Disaster Lobby: Prophets of Ecological Doom and Other Absurdities...
...Where Have you GO,,e, Joe DiMa io...
...Manscapes: An American Journey...
...there is not much real examination here...
...they unfurled their predictions of catastrophe...
...Melvin J. Grayson, Thomas R. Shepard, Jr...
...It ends with the beginning of the 1976 New Hampshire Republican Primary...
...Stein & Day, $7.95...
...Frederick C. Thayer...
...The Black...
...Victims of Justice...
...Vintage...
...The Idea of Fraternity in America...
...Eugene Goodheart...
...Laughin All the Way...
...The porn was better...
...Praeger, $8.95...
...Jerome A. Barron...
...Doubleday...
...Univ...
...Hans J. Morgenthau...
...Random House, Slv2.45...
...The Con uest of Poverty...
...T~he f iirst quart~er o f~ the bo~ok pain~ts a vivi~d pictur,e of lif e at the military academy, from the sterility of its academic life to assorted odd facts (Timothy Leary was a member of the class of ’43...
...Pantheon, $7.95...
...Spectrum...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...The April Game: Secrets of an Internal Revenue Agent...
...The Next Phase in Forei n Policy...
...Univ...
...It all adds up, inevitably, to the conclusion that the best, brightest, happiest, most creative and adjusted way of life is group marriage...
...Under the guise of reminiscences from an anonymous IRS agent, the book is really a coy vehicle for tips on how to beat the tax system legally or illegally...
...Perhaps...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $8.95...
...The Pekin Incident...
...H. Jeffrey Greenfield...
...For the number of new insights he develops, he might have been better off following the ~ ~ l lSitonne~s...
...Peter Witonski...
...in^: A N ~ ~ ~ ~- Ma~ ~ ~Bob c~reen~Re...
...Nicholas Max...
...Philosophy of the Urban Guerrilla: The Revolutionary Writin s of Abraham Guillen...
...Takes up the issue of the social implications of a program that takes addicts off illegal heroin and puts them onto equally addictive, but legal, methadone so as to reduce crime in the cities rather than give real help to the addicts themselves...
...Elliott goosevelt, James Brough...
...Univ...
...The Buckleys: A Family Examined...
...Contributors range from the vice president (male) of Equitable Life Insurance to author Elizabeth Janeway, and the president of Sarah Lawrence College...
...Eli Ginzberg, Alice M. Yohalem, e...
...Grossman, $7.95...
...Henry Owen, ed...
...Morrow, $8.95...
...L. G. Heller.Arlington House, $7.95...
...and specific problems (economics and the arms race...
...The Labor Wars: A History of Worker Militancy in the U. S. Sidney Lens...
...George Atcheson...
...They also list scores the children of various marriages made on the Rogers Personal Adjustment Scale, and the adults’ performance on tests measuring “feeling reactivity,” “self-actualizing values,’’ and “ebxistentiality...
...Although a critic of Nixon’s judicial appointees, Simon ,has a muted style-perhaps too muted, as in his gentle treatment of “Whizzer” White...
...of Alabama, $612.75...
...America’s Comin : How the Government 1s our Dollar...
...Richard L. Berkman, W. Kip Viscusi...
...Franklin dtti $7.95/2.95...
...Univ...
...WIIO are these-“self-anointed saviors of humanity,” this “disaster lobby...
...Norton, $7.95...
...The Secret Team...
...Covers both geographic themes (U...
...Fletcher L. Prouty...
...The authors have not entirely escaped the value system they decry (“The goal is the presidency...
...John M. Striker, Andrew 0. Shapiro...
...Macmillan, $5.95...
...Richard N. Goodwin...
...Professor Thayer has a truly original mind-well worth reading...
...The Third Side of the Desk: How Parents Can Change the Scholols...
...ne Great a,urch-Sbte Fraud...
...Hollis R. Lynch...
...Looking Back A Chronicle of Growing U Old in the Sixties...
...How to Start Your Own School...
...Donald C. Hedg e.!es, Morrow, $8.95/2.95...
...Trade union poreign policy...
...Norodom Sihanouk...
...Super Tenant: New York City Tenant Handbook/ Your Legal Rights and How to Use Them...
...Questions Why Toda ’s Ph sicians are So Useless...
...Doubleday, $9.95...
...Henry Cabot Lodge...
...Colin Henfrey...
...Yale, IE810/2.95...
...Sexual Freedom andl the Constitution...
...Problems, Pros ects, Policies...
...T. Y. Crowell, $12.50...
...Braziller, $6.95/1.95...
...Redford‘s probably back in California wondering what you’re up to...
...Charles Goodell...
...The Blue and White Collar Revolt: How Business is Coping...
...kIe kbeeplite vwea nutpthere...
...An End to amet i tion...
...Norton, $7.50...
...West Point: America’s Power Fraternity...
...Judianne Densen-Gerber...
...Prentice-Hall, $8.95...
...Methadone Maintenance: A Technological Fix...
...The Medical Runaround: A Dr...
...Martin’s, $6.95...
...Zinn, the dean of radical historians, sets out to write social history, but serves up a mixture of familiar New Left political history and the unanalyzed comments of Mississippi sharecroppers...
...Old stories and quotes glued together under a title which comes from Averell Harriman’s remark, “Anyone who wants to be President should have his head examined...
...Originally published by Giorodias of Olympia Press, the famous porno publisher who was hounded out of Paris and has now gone straight in London, this is a hodge-podge paste and scissors job, rehashing much familiar Nixoniana...
...The Storm Has Many Eyes...
...McGovern’s opponents are Tom Eagleton, Gloria Steinem, and Howard Cosell...
...SimGon~ &~ Sch~u~ster~, $9.~9~5...
...A wellwritten, and occasionally even moving, chronicle of the fight to reform America’s abortion laws by the operator of pioneer abortion-referral service...
...One of the author’s theories is that the reason Nixon had it in for Hiss was that Nixon sees in Hiss all his own failings...
...me, F. Simon...
...A social-not medical-study of methadone programs, in particular the program in Syracuse...
...Dorothy Nelkin...
...William A. Duerr...
...aBtivene rWephoitratks eor,n eddi.s crSimchioncaktieonn, around the globe...
...Robert James Maddox...
...Follett, $7.95...
...While written in vintage-Brookings style, humorless and full of portent, this collection of essays is well-balanced and enormously intelligent...
...Walter Barnett...
...The Intelleclual Crisis in American Public Administration...
...A New Foreign Polic for the United States...
...William Meyers, ed...
...What is missing from this informed and otherwise comprehensive account is a feel for what caused the drastic turnabout in public attitudes on the abortion issue...
...Samuel Lubell...
...Straight Arrow...
...Andrew Effrat, ed...
...Culture and the Radical Conscience...
Vol. 5 • April 1973 • No. 2
