POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in June. American Defense Policy. hchard G. Head, Ervin J. Rokke, eds. Johns Hopkins, $17.50/$6.50. If you tend to look down...
...Lexington...
...Pantheon, $6.95...
...American Defense Policy Since 1945: A Preliminary Biblio aphy...
...The Preachers...
...The Com uter Survival Handbook: Wow to Talk Bac...
...Norton, $5.95...
...The luck of the publisher’s timetable has enabled Mosley to hit the book stores just as gasoline pumps are going dry and the Saudi Arabian oil minister is announcing that he may cut off all shipments to the U. S. if we don’t do something about Israel...
...Lab rinths of Democracy: Ada tations, LmLges, Representation, and Poyicies in Urban Politics...
...John Day, $7.95...
...The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy...
...Random House, $10...
...Rita Dallas, Jean Ratcliffe...
...Hope Chamberlain...
...Psychological Survival...
...At the Red Summit: Inte reter Behind the Iron Curtain...
...Basic...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $7.95/$3.95...
...The Future While It Happened...
...The Americans, The Democratic Experience...
...Oxford, $9.50/$3.95...
...William Proxmire, Paul W. McCracken, John W. Byrnes, Charles Schultze, Al Ullman...
...Samuel Lubell...
...A thoughtful exploration of the histojr of American military strategy, tracing the tendency to seek the total annihilation of the enemy back to the Civil War...
...American Populism...
...U. S. Trade Policy and A icultural Imports...
...Paul Hoffman...
...George T. Lock Land...
...Liveright, $6.95...
...George Reedy...
...Harold H. Martin...
...Joseph L. Gardner...
...Sheldon Marcus...
...Bobbs-Merrdl, $15...
...Martin’s, $8.95...
...The Idea of Fraternity in America...
...Adequate though unimaginative biography of the flamboyant father of modern demagoguery, who beat FDR and Goebbels in discovering the radio broadcast route to the mass audience, Money and moral evangelism were intertwined, as Coughlin himself explained in 1932, “If I didn’t believe in religion and a happy beyond, I would get everything for myself that I could lay my hands on in this world...
...Most of his effort goes into showing the “democratizing” influence of department stores, life insurance, newspapers, and advertising...
...Macmillan, $12.95...
...Manscapes: An American Journey...
...Columbia, $5.95...
...Congress and the Budget...
...Ralph Bunche...
...They want cost-plus contracts for themselves and nothing for anyone else...
...fniversity of Chicago, $17.50...
...Judith Tegger Kildow...
...The book’s sense of verisimilitude suffers when the authors show us a BNDD man tripping over a Customs agent and a cop, and imply that this is “coordination...
...Quadrangle, $7.95...
...Right From the Start...
...William Turner Huggett...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in June...
...Random House, $10...
...The Economic Consequences of Reduced Military Spending...
...Justice in the Round: The Trial of Angela Davis...
...Harrison Wehner...
...University of California, $14.95...
...Iowa State, e Unreal Estate...
...While the economic analyses collected here provide welcome support for the idea that national prosperity and big Defense budgets are not inextricably linked, the book suffers terribly from an easily avoidable flaw...
...Gary Warren Hart...
...Assuming that our addiction to the automobile is pathological, the author recommends a mass transit system with dummy steering wheels and gas gauges at each seat...
...Ihe Failure of Success: Ecological Values vs...
...Pantheon...
...W. H. O’Connell...
...Random House, $10...
...The Political Status of the Ne o in the Age of FDR...
...The Fourth Year of the Nixon Watch...
...Sections 235 and 236, An Economic Evaluation of HUD’s Principal Housing Subsidy Programs...
...Norton, $7.95...
...worse that they all hit the roads at the same time each day...
...Iowa State University Enter for Agricultural and Rural Development...
...James L, Sundquist...
...Praeger, $10...
...Reginald Major...
...World Food Production, Demand, and Trade...
...The Charity of Nations...
...The Presidency in Flux...
...An adapted excerpt appears in this issue of The Washington Monthly...
...While the authors give us gripping descriptions of the battles between bandits and narcs, they neglect to explain the equally passionate struggles that often take place between the various members of the anti-drug team-especially between Customs agents and the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs...
...Power Play...
...Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company...
...Bernard Udis...
...For Reasons of State...
...Harper & Row, $10.95...
...If you tend to look down on the intellectual standards of the service academies, you’ll be surprised by this admirable collection of essays edited by two Air Force Academy professors...
...Walter B. Weare...
...Iowa State, $12...
...One can concede those points without buying the conclusion that ecologists are a national peril...
...The book’s more perceptive and timeless pieces are rewarding, but it would be nice if academics didn’t always assume that they can get away with this sort of caper...
...American Enterprise Institute, $2.50...
...A distinguished scholar analyzes past realignments of the partiesemphasizing those of the 1850s, 1890s, and 1930s...
...Herbert Apgeker, ed...
...Lexington...
...Saturday Review, $8.95...
...University of Illinois, $10.95...
...Daniel J. Boorstin...
...Brookings, $8.95/$3.95...
...Citadel, $17.50...
...to Your Computer...
...Anthony Wolff, Scribner’s, $5.95, Urban Public Education in America: Problems and Prospects...
...Atlantic-Little, Brown, $10.95...
...These rambling observations about the business world by an executive recruiter bear about as much resemblance to confessions as President Nixon’s comments about his role in the Watergate break-in...
...Rita Gray Beatty...
...Praeger, $6.95...
...Some discouraging findings about the nature of the coalition that elected Richard Nixon in 1972...
...George McKenna...
...A well-written story of the world-wide heroin traffic and the government’s oft-thwarted efforts to stop it...
...The book’s mass of anecdotes and breezy approach to questions of politics and economics (“there was something about the convulsiveness of the gesture which suggested that the cup Ahmed Yamani was shaking was an obstinate American oilman”) will frustrate those hoping for serious analysis...
...James Morris...
...A rather pedantic summary of Kissinger’s writings on foreign policy prior to 1969 by a close friend...
...Putnam, $6.95...
...Grow or Die...
...Ra mond C. Hummel, John M. Nagle...
...Little, Brown, $8.95...
...Leonard Mosley...
...Leroy L. Blakeslee, Earl 0. Heady, Charles F. Framingham...
...Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States...
...Still the reading is painless and conveys the impression that the new Arab rich men are not that different from J. Paul Getty and H. L. Hunt...
...Third Press, $6.95...
...Of the dozens of books on economic development now being published, this is one of the better surveys...
...Susan W. Wooldridge, Keith London...
...readers can flip to the late-July articles and find that-oh, ho!-Osborne, too, was fooled by the Watergate, That so many of Osborne’s judgments do stand up is a large tribute, and it adds weight to some of his earlier perceptions which have now taken on added significance: “Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Colson [are] the three Nixon assistants most involved in seeing to it that campaign attitudes and tactics are shaped up in the way the President wants them shaped” (August 5, 1972...
...Heinz Eulau, Kenneth Prewitt...
...City Police...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $10...
...The book’s two points are that environmentalists are not as erudite as they should be, and that DDT and other ecological evils have done some good...
...Evert Clark, Nicholas Horrock...
...American Enterprise Institue, $3...
...Tom Wolfe...
...Russell F. Weigley...
...Stanley Cohen, Laurie Taylor...
...David Wall...
...While Wall does not delve far enough for answers, he at least asks the difficult question, whether international organizations are any more effective as aid-givers than AID...
...Colin Henfrey...
...The three lectures given at Columbia in the fall of 1971 are somewhat dated-especially Reedy’s responses to student questions-and occasionally even banal...
...A collection of 80 self-congratulatory, postage-stampsized monographs on past congresswomen, reinforcing the suspicion that the stiffest hurdles to accepting social movements are sometimes the books they bring in their wake...
...Graubard finds some interesting foreshadowing of the Nixon Administration’s foreign policy in sources like Kissinger’s 1954 Harvard doctoral thesis...
...Kissinger: Portrait of a Mind...
...Wilson Carey McWdliams...
...Given the tone of some of the early ecology books, it is only fair to forgive authors like Beatty some of their stridency in arguing to opposite case...
...Scribner’s, $12.50...
...Thesis-like examination of what happened when COMSAT went international...
...Gambit, $6.95...
...The DDT Myth: Triumph of the Amateurs...
...Contrabandista...
...Confessions of a Co orate Headhunter...
...Nietzsche once dismissed this definition of democracy as “the penchant for counting noses...
...Intext, $6.95...
...Erwin Weit.%acmillan, $6.95...
...Departin Glory: Theodore Roosevelt as ExPresiJent...
...Father Coughlin: ‘Ihe Tumultuous Life of the Priest of the Little Flower...
...Most of the pieces were written three years ago and have since undergone only minimal updating...
...Ralph McGill, Reporter...
...Jonathan Rubinstein...
...He predicts that in the short run, at least, “the headlong march toward decomposition [of the two-party system] will be checked and even reversed, the New Deal party system will be reinvigorated, and most of those who ceased identifying with one’ or the other major party in the recent turmoil wiU re-identify.’’ However the author’s use of the labels “activist” and “consemative” to distinguish between the tendencies of the two parties seems inadequate to deal with Nixon coalition, which does favor “activism” when it’s in behalf of big business and big labor...
...Robert Theobald, Stephanie Mills, eds...
...Allan J. Cox...
...Ride Free, Drive Free: The Transit Fund and the Robin Hood Principle...
...For specialists only...
...Putnam, $7.95...
...The New Journalism...
...Never one to overstress abstractions or ideas, Boorstin gives us a 700-page version of modern America containing nothing more theoretical than a Xerox machine...
...A Documentary History of the Ne o People in the United States...
...Nonetheless, Reedy, one of our best observers of the presidency, still has some interesting things to say...
...John Osborne...
...12.95/$3.45...
...Noam Chomsky...
...Gambit, $7.95...
...Economic Myths...
...Stephen R. Graubard...
...This leaves one article arguing that the draft should be ended, another predicting the military budget for Fiscal Year 1972, and others hypothesizing about the signing of the SALT agreements or the end of the Vietnam war...
...Lions in the Street: The Inside Story of the Great Wall Street Law Firms...
...Putnam, $6.95...
...It’s bad enough that the U. S. has nearly as many cars as adults...
...A Minority of Members: Women in the U. S. Congress...
...The Kennedy Case...
...Intelsat: Policy Maker’s Dilemma...
...Trident, $7.95...
...Instant history of the sort represented by this collection of New Republic columns is always a gamble...
...Geoffrey Kem Clark Murdock, Rank L. Simonie, e& University of Kansas, $4.95...
...This second volume by the Marxist historian includes various editorials and essays, from the moderate Tuskegee faction to the militant ,Du Bois, as well as personal recollections of black farmers and ministers in the days before the New Deal...
...Body Count...
...Cox’s comments are dccasionally well-in tentioned, sometimes Machiavellian, but generally they convey the less-thanstartling impression that the executive suite is a rather dreary place...
Vol. 5 • June 1973 • No. 4
