POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in May, America and the World Political Economy: Atlantic Dreams and National Realities. David P. Calleo, Benjamin M....
...Peter Aseph...
...Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in America...
...The Institutional Im erative: How to Understand the U.S...
...Memoirs...
...Charterhouse, $9.95...
...Shelley Umans...
...The author warns that, by removing the arbitrary barriers that prevent people from attaining their natural level in society, we will create a self-perpetuating aristocracy of merit...
...How to Cut the Cost of Education...
...Fortunately, the goals are different now...
...Saturday Review, $7.95...
...Women in a Changing Society...
...Grossman...
...Dutton, $7.95...
...Rizzo: From CO to Mayor of Philadelphia...
...Oxford, $15...
...mends that reporters “attend Platitude Recognition Training Sessions, the object being to raise cliche-consciousness,” and notes that “the United State3 Army Intelligence School, charged with giving courses in torture, manages to call itself USAINTS...
...Argues that American foreign policy -especially during its “internationalist” phases and in its prescriptions for the Third World-is based on a textbook-economics idea of the world, in which national borders are inconvenient barriers to the growth of international business...
...Praeger, $10...
...This collection of essays by movement-oriented authors was originally a special issue of The American Journal of Sociology...
...Rictard E. Wagner...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3.00 Misdirected Medicine...
...Americans in Southeast Asia: The Roots of Commitment...
...Random House, $5.95/$1.65...
...This detailed, well-written history covers much familiar ground but will nevertheless serve as a solid reference...
...This failure of ideas, rather than the later factionalism and fanaticism, was the real death of SDS...
...Random House, $8.95...
...The Second Crash: How the Stock Market Went the 1929 Route in 1970* (“but missed it by one hone call...
...Oliver Pilat...
...Pantheon, $10...
...Cor orate Country: A State Shaped to Suit Tecgnology . William H. Rodgers, Jr.Rodale...
...The total effect is slightly marred by Wise’s inability to evaluate the importance of the different incidents of presidential lying, and his confusion of these episodes with less clear-cut issues of the freedom of the press...
...Leonard Mosley...
...The Briar Patch: The Peo le of the State of New York v Lumumba Sfalter et al...
...Generations: The Family Today...
...Home from the War: Transformations of Vietnam Veterans...
...The distant tramp of the jackboot echoes through accounts ranging from presidential lying about Vietnam to Lyndon Johnson’s claim of a nonexistent ancestor at the Alamo...
...3.95/$1.95...
...Macmillan, $8.95...
...are not old-time true believers...
...The Politics of L ing: Government Deception, Secrecy, andrPower...
...Unlearning the Lie-Sexism in School...
...Clark Kerr and Dean Rusk end up sounding like Clark Kerr and Dean Rusk...
...Portions of this book appeared in adapted form in the November, 1972, issue of The Washington Monthly...
...A sound book by a political scientist who has actually worked in government...
...Quest and Response: Minority Rights and the Truman Administration...
...The author clearly understands that public administration does not take place in some “sanitized world safe from the swirls and uncertainties of politics...
...Barbara Harrison...
...Musto’s only expressed conclusions are that past solutions to the drug problem have been ineffective and some previous attitudes have been groundless...
...D. Gale Johnson...
...David Wise...
...It would he nice to know about the other veterans,too, but Lifton doesn’t claim to provide a cross section...
...T. Y. Crowell, $10...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...Yale, $10.95...
...Viking, $10...
...Writing a history of SDS-let alone one based on written records and retrospective interviewsis a difficult task, but Sale, who for generational reasons “was never part of SDS,” has produced an exhaustive, sympathetic, and refreshingly nondogmatic narrative...
...king, $8.95...
...Murray L. Weidenbaum, Dan Larkins, P h i p N. Marcus...
...Harper & Row, $10...
...school, collected celebrity interviews the way others collect autographs...
...The Seamy Side of Democracy: Repression in America...
...Scribner’s, $7.95...
...Katie Kelly...
...Cedric Belfrage...
...Regnery, $6.95...
...Saturday Review, $7.95...
...Charles Ellis...
...A Public Citizen’s Action Manual...
...Charles E. Bohlen...
...that Johnson launched the Vietnam War because he hoped the war would kill reform [and] that it would split and then reduce his Democratic majorities...
...For example, “the presumption is strong...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...Tibor Mende...
...Cuttin Loose: A Civilized Guide for Getting Out of the System...
...William Niskanen...
...Walker, $6.95...
...Robert J. Lifton...
...Wellinformed but unimaginative look at the dilemmas of international aid...
...A collection of McNamara’s recent speeches, showing that in his five years at the World Bank, he has lost little of his sense of mission...
...Paul Kramer, Frederick Holborn, eds...
...Provocative reading nonetheless...
...Betty H. Zisk...
...Neal R. Pierce...
...Power Play: The Story of the Quest for Oil in the Middle East...
...Johns Hopkins, $15/$3.95...
...Chalmers M. Roberts...
...Jack N. Porter, Peter Dreier, eds...
...Garbage: The History and Future of Garbage in the United States...
...Death and Taxes: Some Perspectives on Inheritance, Inequality and Pro ressive Taxation in the United States...
...The Chinese Difference...
...Atlantic/Little Brown, $7.95...
...John E. Gregg...
...Grossman, $7.95...
...The Health Insurance Racket and How to Beat It...
...The City in American Politics...
...Sam McClatchie, M.D...
...SDS: Ten Years Toward a Revolution...
...Random House, $15...
...Indiana University, $10.95/$2.95...
...Factor: The Theory and Technique of Faking It Big in America...
...Musto does not emphasize that the need for drugs, rather than drugs themselves, drives addicts to crime...
...University of Kansas, $12...
...JChoaangnin Hg uber, ed...
...Sol Chaneles...
...Proposals for inmateowned prisons and suggestions that medical schools in prisons could solve the doctor shortage do little to help build a serious constituency for prison reform...
...KirkPatrick Sale...
...Russell H. Fifield...
...Robert Coles...
...Arthur Herzog...
...The Open Prison: Saving Their Lives and Our Money...
...Simon & Schuster, $6.95...
...Rolert Osgood et al...
...He also realizes that state and local governments employ about three fourths of all public officials...
...Joseph Kraft...
...McKay, $6.95...
...University of Chicago, $7.95/$2.95...
...McCraw-Hill, $6.95...
...dvernment and Other Bulky Objects...
...A joy to find an exciting, readable, and essential book about the Stock Exchange...
...Otherwise it’s disappointing, as it avoids the subtleties of a complex issue...
...Bernard Asbell...
...Jewish Radicalism A Selected Anthology...
...An excessively shrill and poorly documented brief for community control of prisons that illustrates the inability of many liberals to face the realities of a pervasive national fear of crime...
...The most remarkable parts of this admirable book are not the insider’s reports of diplomatic events, hut Roberts’ reflections on the craft of journalism...
...R. J. Herrnstein...
...Fred Hamilton...
...Simon & Schuster, %5.95...
...Retreat From Victory: A Critical Ap raisal of American Forei n and Militar foolicy from 1920 to the f970s...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in May, America and the World Political Economy: Atlantic Dreams and National Realities...
...Norton, $9.95...
...Donald Ross...
...Norton, $12.50...
...Setting out to demolish fakery and cant in American life, Herzog goes beyond obvious targets like the speeches of Maurice Stans and the semantic excesses of Madison Avenue...
...Saturday Review, $5.95...
...A former director of the Friends Peace Committee in Philadelphia has written a sensible and humane rejection of violent tactics...
...The authors do a fine job of showing the ill consequences and looking for alternatives...
...Focusing perhaps excessively on the national officers of what was a thoroughly unstructured organization, Sale never really probes the minds of the average members or satisfactorily answers why by late 1967 “SDSers involved in theory tended to give up the hard work of fashioning their own” and turned instead to increasingly vulgar Marxism...
...Combining personal observations with academic insights, the book generally avoids both the sociologist’s notorious sterility and the movement’s frequent appeals to Jacobinism...
...Liveright...
...A gold mine if you are writing a high-school term paper...
...Nonetheless, this small book, the bulk of which appeared in The New Yorker is thin on substance and suffers more than occasionally from an excess of punditry...
...American Enterprise Institute, $3...
...First Rough Draft: A Journalist’s Journal of Our Times...
...Saturday Review, $6.95...
...Putnam, $6.95...
...A S ectacle Unto the World: The Catholic WorRer Movement...
...CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968...
...Farm Commodity Programs: An Opportunity for Change...
...Structural Reform of the Federal Budget Process...
...He takes his material a bit too seriously, but you can’t really fault a book which recom...
...Karp is convinced that the efforts of “party bosses” and “oligarchs” (ominous terms never really defined) to thwart reform and thereby maintain themselves in power are at the root of all of America’s problems...
...He overestimates the significance of I. Q. and the likelihood that the barriers will be eradicated...
...His objective neutrality unfortunately blinds him to the fact that legalization is one issue on which both common sense and the Constitution are in overwhelming agreement...
...Charles W. Whalen, Jr...
...Describing the extraordinary vulnerability and inefficiency of the “best club in the world,” Ellis’ strong story line tells of an imaginary stock market crashbased on a real incident in 1970...
...Grove Press, $7.95/$2.45...
...David F. Musto, M...
...After talks with members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, p sy c ho-historian Lifton describes the psychological effects of their experiences and tells some horrible stories...
...The F.D.R...
...Dial, $6.95...
...A thoughtful examination of four major flaws in the federal budget process by a former assistant director for evaluation at OMB...
...The First Nixon Administration...
...Strategy for a Living Revolution...
...From Aid to Re-Colonization: Lessons of a Failure...
...But where Terkel’s tape recorder captured the cadences of an era by focusing on the ordinary, Joseph, a questioner of the “and then what happened...
...Witness to History 1929-1969...
...War and Politics...
...The American Disease: Ori ins of Narcotic Control...
...The result is-with a few conspicuous exceptions -twice-told tales...
...Bernard Brodie...
...Alan Wolfe...
...John Rehfuss...
...Dorothy Kalins...
...Random House, $10...
...Robert S. McNamara...
...Drew Pearson: An Unauthorized Biography...
...Fanatical devotion is curbed by the levity and skepticism of a cultivated people...
...David P. Calleo, Benjamin M. Rowland...
...Doubleday, $10...
...Leontine Young...
...In this outgrowth of a Princeton senior thesis, Joseph has attempted to fuse 125 brief interviews into an oral history of the 1960s a la Studs Terkel...
...Good Times: An Oral Histor of America in the Nineteen-Sixties...
...Walter Karp...
...Your Right to Know: The Case Against Government Subpoena of Journalists...
...Simon & Schuster, $7.95...
...Public Administration as Political Process...
...Matching Needs and Resources: Reforming the Federal Bud et...
...While some of Ralph Nader’s remarks-appeals to “national citizenship struggle” and “the flame of citizenship”-suggest a middle-class Mao exhorting his suburban cadres to action, Ross’s book provides practical but imaginative suggestions for consumer action, ranging from the correct procedures for filing noise pollution complaints to advice on checking local property tax assessments...
...August Meier, Elliott Rudwick...
...George Lakey...
...Johns Hopkins, $10...
...The B.S...
...Bobbs-derrill, $8.95...
...A spine-chilling catalog of outright lying and the misuse of power and secrecy by the government...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $10...
...Devilishly clever, those party oligarchs...
...Praeger...
...The American In uisition 1945-1960...
...Charterhouse, $7.95...
...McCraw-Hill, $7.95...
...International Safe uards and Nuclear Industry, Mason Willrick, ed...
...Donald R. McCoy, Richard T. Ruetten...
...Congressman Whalen’s (ROhio) case for a modified journalistic shield law-like most books originating on Capitol Hill-reads like an amalgam of the Congressional Record and a legal brief...
...The Monopoly Makers: Ralph Nader’s Study Grou Report on Regulation and Com eti One Hundred Countries, Two Billion People...
...Murray Kempton...
...Retreat From Em ire...
...Local Interest Politics: A One-way Street...
...Kraft is refreshing since he is one visitor to China who has not been captivated by the New Maoist Man: “The Chinese...
...I. Q. In the Meritocracy...
...Drew Idddleton: Hawthorn, $7.95...
...Robert N. Kharasch...
...The Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States...
Vol. 5 • May 1973 • No. 3
