POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be publislied in July and August Amazing Grace: With Charles Evers in Mississippi. Jason Berry. Saturday Review. $8.95. The American Condition....
...Enimet John Hughes...
...Major Tax Reform: Urgent Necessity or Not...
...Arbor House, $6.95, $2.95...
...His radical concept is beautifully illustrated with over 100 pictures, including floor plans and actual building processes...
...The Great Reversals: Tales of the Supreme Court...
...In less accomplished hands, the trial of 13 New York City Black Panthers would have been grist for another tract about the “repressive society” in which we live...
...Harper Perennial Library, $1.25...
...sion-the profit motive is compatible with social responsibility-on such principles as these: defense industries have tittle influence on the size of the military budget...
...The Fleischmann Report on the Quality, Cost, and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education in New York StateVolumes I1 and 111...
...Gail Sheehy, Delacorte, $7.95...
...The Fractured Family...
...American Enterprise Institute, $2...
...Delacorte, $7.’15...
...Leading Issues in International Economic Policy...
...Hassan Fathy...
...How Full is Full Employment...
...C. Fred Bergsten, William G. Tyler, eds...
...Michael David Wallace...
...Univ...
...Catch a Wave: A Case Study of Hawaii’s New Politics...
...Dial, $12.50...
...Dutton...
...The Dance of Legislation...
...In light of its suspect sponsorship (National Association of Home Builders, National Association of Mutual Savings Banks, United States Saving and Loan League), this is a surprisingly useful study...
...This time the patients are children rather than soldiers and the enemy is not the Vietnam war but hospital bureaucracy and doctors’ professional egos...
...Univ...
...ITT insiders consider these scandals cheap advertising...
...Cor orate Power and Social Responsibility: A Bfue rint for the Future...
...Neil Middleton, ed...
...Caroline Bird...
...Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society...
...What is lacking is a more than superficial picture of the Pittston Company whose policies clearly caused the death and destruction...
...Broad-Based Taxes: New Options and Sources...
...Timothy Leary...
...But Kempton is after far more elusive themes, weaving a narrative filled with unpredictable insights: “The relationship between black defendants and white jurors may be the only example of protracted integrated living this society has developed...
...Grossman, $7.95...
...What Nixon is Doin His Domestic and Forei n Policies and Aeir Impact on America...
...Richard A. Musgrave, ed...
...American Enterprise Institute Politics in War: The Bases of Political Community in South Vietnam...
...Robert A. Rutland...
...American Enterprise Institute...
...Simon Rottenberg, ed...
...The Newsmongers: Journalism in the Life of the Nation...
...Tom Artin...
...Coward, hcCann, Geoghegan, $10...
...Political Strate ies in Northern School Desegre ation...
...In fact, the book is elegantly written and absorbingly candid about how things work on Capitol Hill...
...War and Rank Among Nations...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $6.95...
...Morris L. Ernst...
...Wayne State, $3.95...
...Random House, $7.95...
...Earth Talk: Independent Voices on the World Environment...
...We Are Chicanos...
...Citibank: Ralph Nader’s Study Group Report on First National City Bank...
...Harvard, $12.50...
...Congressional Control of Federal Spending...
...7.95...
...Univ...
...Eric Redman...
...of Hawaii, $2.95...
...Architecture for the Poor...
...Moore...
...Viking, $12.50, $6.95...
...Robert Ash Wallace...
...of Chicago, $10.95...
...William Proxmire, AI Ullman, John Byrnes, Paul McCracken, Charles Schultze...
...Philip Ortega, ed.Washington Square, $1.25...
...Norton, $5.95...
...Carl Dean Snyder...
...1 want you to know that I’m having a lot of fun,” President Harold Geneen recently confided to his fellow executives, “and I want you to have fun too...
...Nash, $10, $4...
...Geoffrey fl...
...Morton A. Kaplan, Abram Chayes, G. Warren Nutter, Paul C. Warnke, John P. Roche, Clayton Fritchey...
...David Leinsdorf and Donald Etra...
...The People’s Lawyers...
...Ronald J. Glasser...
...Lippincott, $4.95, $2.45...
...Carl Smith & Leo Fay...
...8avid J . Kirby, T. Robert The Economics of Crime and Punishment...
...At least it’s consistent...
...McKay, $7.95...
...Ward 402...
...Simon & Schuster, $7.95...
...Grossman, $7.95...
...Getting People to Read: Volunteer Programs That Work...
...Sue the B*ST*RDS: The Victim’s Handbook...
...Doris Jonas and David Jonas...
...Little, Brown, $7.95...
...Tom Nugent...
...Anthony Downs...
...and industrial concentration has not increased since World War 11...
...McGraw-Hill, $6.95...
...federal regulatory agencies do not become captives of business interests...
...Miirray Rothbard...
...The Secret War Against Dope...
...Marlise James...
...Braziller, $6.95...
...Vietnam Settlement: Why 1973, Not 1969...
...Stein & Day, $10...
...Engrossing and profoundly depressing, this is one of the good things from New York...
...In deciding to write a first-person narrative of how a health bill made it though Congress, the author ran serious risks of falling into the “and then 1 told the President” school of history...
...Pantheon, $10.A vivid picture of the painful existence the white man has forced on San Francisco’s Chinese...
...Death at at Buffalo Creek...
...American Enterprise Institute, $5.75...
...The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York v. Lumumba Shakur, et...
...of Illinois, $7.95...
...Written by an Egyptian architect, this book is a fascinating plan for the rural poor to build housing with the materials they have available...
...Dutton, $10...
...Can Congress Control Spending...
...Federal Housing Subsidies: How Are They Working...
...The author of the very moving 365 Days has written another gripping narrative of life in a hospital...
...Victor G. and Brett de Bary Nee...
...American Enterprise Institute, $5.75...
...Robert A. kickenham...
...1. F. Stone Reader...
...A too-emotional plea for a return to the family “as it once was”-warm, understanding, etc...
...Almost half the book is devoted to repetitious recollections by survivors of the flood...
...James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni...
...Everything a Woman Needs to Know to Get Paid What She’s Worth...
...The author does not draw conclusions from his evidence-for example, the squabble over which Senator’s name would go first on a list of co-sponsors, .an incident which cries for some comment on the vanity involved-but in most cases the facts are enough...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $7.95...
...Holt, Rinehart &Winston, $7.95...
...McKay, $8.95...
...Morton A. Kaplan...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be publislied in July and August Amazing Grace: With Charles Evers in Mississippi...
...Last year more than 100 people lost their lives when an ill-constructed coal company dam gave way in the heart of West Virginia’s mining country...
...Afan Gartner, Colin Greer, Frank Riessman, eds...
...Andrew Tully...
...Johns Hopkins, $10, $3...
...Lexington, $9.50...
...Lexinton, $11 .SO...
...The Subordinate Sex: A History of Attitudes Toward Women...
...Murray Kempton...
...America’s Great Depression...
...Trying to place some of ITT’s recent bad publicity into proper perspective, Sampson notes that the company owned a Nazi airplane factory, funded Himmler’s Gestapo, and maintained networks of secret agents in Latin America and Eastern Europe...
...The Livin Presidency...
...Sound but unsurprising observations about the White House by a former Eisenhower speechwriter...
...Nugent, who covered the story for the Detroit Free-Press, has given us a competent, but disappointingly one-dimensional, chronology of the tragedy...
...Young Till We Die...
...of Illinois, $10.95...
...The Sovereign State of ITT...
...Transaction, $7.9...
...The Deceived Ma’ority Gordon Fellman...
...The Rationale for NATO: European Collective Security-Past and Future...
...Longtime Californ’: A Documentary Study of an American Chinatown...
...Roderick MacLeish...
...White-Collar Workers and the UAW...
...Neil H. Jacoby...
...Confessions of a Hope Fiend...
...American Enterprise Institute, $5.75...
...The Numbers Game...
...Using the Inner Belt highway controversy in Boston as a case study, this book is an important second step to the beginning made by Sennet and Cobb’s The Hidden Injuries of’ Class in examining the role of social class in modern American society . A Dialogue...
...Leontine Young...
...While appalled at the prosecution, Kempton does not exalt the defendants, whom he sees as more pathetic than militant...
...A City on the River...
...Richard N. Goodwin...
...Henry S. Reuss, Charls E. Waker...
...Lexington, $12.50...
...The author never really gives evidence that such an institution ever existed, and she affects a “future shock” tone, pointing out the obvious and dwelling on it...
...Anthony Sampson...
...The author takes into account social and aesthetic as well as economic conerns...
...Bantam, $1.95...
...Liberal America and the Third World: Political Development Ideas in Forei n Aid and Social Science...
...Princeton, $15...
...Douglas Matthews...
...And Other Essays on Inter retin the Unemployment Statistics...
...Doubleday, $ IO...
...Harry Hopkins...
...Tom Coffman...
...Univ...
...Allan E. Goodman...
...Vern L. Bullough...
Vol. 5 • July 1973 • No. 5
