POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in September. Against the Stream: Critical Essays on Economics. Gunnar Myrdal. Pantheon, $10. Amber Waves of Grain. James Trager....
...Westminster, $5.95...
...Yeheskel Hasenfeld, Richard A. English, eds...
...A collection of articles and speeches by and about Richard Milhous Nixon...
...of Michigan, $15...
...Left Turn: Origins of the Next American Revolution...
...Wilson Bryan Key...
...Unapologetically partisan, well researched, and thoroughly documented, this book takes on a compelling immediacy with the Justice Department’s decision to reopen the Kent State case...
...Covers everything from the San Francisco drug scene to political activists in Washington and does a good job of refuting the theory that “we were losing the war abroad because of demonstrations at home...
...The School Book: For People Who Want to Know What All the Hollering Is About...
...Charterhouse, $7.95...
...Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment...
...Vietnam and Black America: An Anthology of Protest and Resistance...
...William Fellner, et al...
...Hard Living on Clay Street: A Study of Blue Collar Families...
...Doubleday, $6.95...
...Peter D. Beter...
...Thomas Powers...
...This attempt to explain our economic and environmental problems by examining the Stone Age tribes is not always convincing but is certainly provocative...
...Otis H. Stephens, Jr...
...Edwin 0. Reischauer...
...An extremely involved and well-researched history of the sixties’ antiwar movement...
...Kathryn Watterson Burkhart...
...Alan M. Jones, Jr., ed...
...Crowell, $10.00/3.95...
...A series of interviews giving a sentimental view of women prisoners...
...American Enterprise Institute...
...Especially welcome is the conclusion that the property tax is generally progressive and should not be abandoned...
...Univ...
...Suzanne Gordon...
...The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of Peoples’ Religion...
...The Theatre of Politics...
...Johns Hopkins, $12...
...yell he figures out that bj equals the number of offenses he would commit during a particular period, pj is his probability of convictions per offense, and fj is his punishment per offense,, and Uj is a coverall variable representing all sorts of other influences on his behavior, you will have escaped...
...The Great Nixon Turnaround...
...John Day, $8.95/4.95...
...The Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American Conscience...
...Bi Business and Bureaucracy...
...Public Claims on U. S. Output: Federal Budget Options in the Last Half of the Seventies...
...Storefront Day Care Centers: The Radical Berlin Experiment...
...The author says she never even liked women before these encounters...
...Maria McGuire...
...Poverty and Progress: An Ecological Pers ec tive on Economic Develo ment...
...Edward S. Corwin, rev...
...John Gunn...
...Chatty reminiscences by one of Britain’s prominent ambassadors...
...Fast-moving without being lightweight, it manages both to sustain suspense about the wheat-futures market, and, more impressive, to explain clearly the arcane details of agricultural policy...
...Among the participants were Gary Hart, Jeb Magruder, David Broder, Rick Stearns, Ben Wattenberg...
...Lloyd C. Gardner...
...Government Spending and Its Effects...
...The Medical Runaround...
...Viking...
...A New Look at Inflation: Economic Policy in the Early 1970’s...
...Senator Jacob Javits with Don Kellerman...
...Frank Freidel...
...Nancy van Vuuren...
...Joseph T. Howell...
...Laurence Martin...
...Praeger, $6.95...
...David J. Ott, et al...
...While there’s nothing new or startling, this transcript of the meeting is consistently interesting and must reading for campaign professionals...
...Economics and the Public Purpose...
...Morrow, $8.95...
...The Long Shot: Geor e McGovern Runs for President...
...Princeton, $20.00/3.95...
...Grossman, $8.95...
...Simon Rottenberg, ed...
...Diplomatic Channels...
...Authoritative collection of technical papers, more useful than most of its type because the policy implications are clearly extracted from the economic analyses...
...Black Mesa...
...It is hard to fault the suggestions, but even harder to imagine how to get them enacted...
...New American Library, $1.25...
...Prentice-Hall, $7.95...
...Delacorte, $7.95...
...William L. Hauser...
...An American Verdict...
...Little, Brown, $15...
...Susan Lukowski, Cary T. Grayson, Jr...
...Nothing new, but still a good primer on the Nixonian contradictions which were so effectively submerged during the last election...
...Broad-Based Taxes: New Options and Sources...
...Women in Prison...
...The Center...
...The Constitution and What It Means Today...
...Clyde Taylor...
...Although much of what is covered is well-worn ground, this book brings all phases of the movement together and analyzes the success or failure of each...
...Gambit, $8.95...
...Social Work: The Unloved Profession...
...American Enterprise Institute...
...Charles Beardsley...
...Harvard, $7.95...
...And R. Ashman...
...Richarf G Wilkinson...
...Michael Meltsner...
...The Conspiracy Against the Dollar: The Spirit of the New Imperialism...
...Norton, $8.95...
...A new edition of the indispensable guide...
...Ernest R. May, Janet Fraser, eds...
...Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media’s Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America...
...As is customary with congressional books, Javits thanks various members of his staff “for long months of research...
...Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth...
...Schocken, $7.95...
...Knopf, $5.95...
...Toward the 21st Century...
...John Kenneth Galbraith...
...Arms and Strategy: The World Power Structure Today...
...Human Service Organizations: A Book of Readings...
...On the weekend of January 5-6, 1973, Harvard’s Institute of Politics got together a group of politicians and journalists to discuss last year’s election...
...Frederick R. Anderson...
...Harvey Cox...
...Jon A. McClure...
...Anchor, $2.95...
...Johns Hopkins, $8.50...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $10...
...Michael J. Arlen...
...D. Hart, $7.95...
...of Tennessee...
...American Enterprise Institute, $8.50/4.00...
...To Take Arms: A Year in the Provisional IRA...
...NEPA in the Courts: A Legal Analysis of the National Environmental Policy Act...
...New Viewpoints, $3.95...
...The book well illustrates the anything-butresignation attitude which is apparently universal among the world’s diplomats: “I saw no reason to resign after the Suez affair, although as ambassador in Cairo I had been opposed to the British Government’s action, on which I had not been consulted...
...Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner...
...The book says, for example, of Douglas Dillon that “he was the real power in the Kennedy Administration...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt: Launching the New Deal...
...Arthur Fields, $6.95...
...of Wisconsin, $10...
...City Limits: Barriers to Change in Urban Government...
...Violence in Human Society...
...That is the only possible benefit reading this book could confer upon you...
...Richard A. Musgrave, ed...
...Rampage: The Story of Disastrous Floods, Broken Dams, and Human Fallibility...
...Nash, $7.95...
...This history of last year’s Russian grain deal is an exemplary bit of narrative journalism...
...Andrew Malleson, ‘M...
...Braziller, $4.95/1.95...
...The classic Galbraith diagnosis of our economic woes, combined with a detailed program of political reform...
...Richard E. Rubinstein...
...Javits never probes his own experiences during a generation in Congress to determine the causes for our recent tradition of congressional deference...
...New Viewpoints, $8.9512.95...
...McKay, $6.95...
...Potomac Books, $8/$5...
...C. L. Harris, ed...
...Houghton Mifflin, $10...
...Doubleday, $10...
...McKay, $15 9 5. Armstrong’s Fight for FM Broadcasting: One Man vs...
...The War at Home...
...U. S. Foreign Policy in a Chan in World...
...Johns Hopkins, $15.00/6.95...
...Univ...
...It was properly their decision which I had to accept, and I was glad that I had not been told what they were going to do...
...McK .!9a.!$y, The Use of Land: The Citizens’ Policy Guide to Urban Growth...
...Who Makes War: The President Versus Congress...
...Univ...
...Diana R. Gordon...
...Pyramid, $1.25...
...The Economics of Crime and Punishment...
...The Subversion of Women as Practiced by Churches, Witch-Hunters and Other Sexists...
...Meat Eaters Are Threatened...
...America’s Army in Crisis...
...by Harold W. Chase, Craig R. Ducat...
...Simon & Schuster, $8.95...
...Humphrey Trevelyan...
...Beacon, $9.95...
...Edited by an authors’ collective...
...Peter Davies and The Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church...
...The Finest Jud es Money Can Buy...
...Wild-eyed and unintentionally amusing account of how the Forces of the New Imperialism carried out their five-year master plan to erode the dollar...
...The Supreme Court and Confessions of Guilt...
...Praeger, $8/$$.95...
...Helpful listings of each state’s officials...
...Ferdinand Mount...
...no important appointment was made without his consent...
...Little Brown, $8.50...
...Hauser’s solutions for the problems of today’s “new action Army” are pedestrian and predictable, predicated on the complacent assumptions that have gotten us into our current difficulties...
...Peter Briggs...
...Anchor, $2.95...
...Eight parts popAmerican history to one part predictable, but well-executed, discussion of the current conflict between Congress and the President over war powers...
...When your neighborhood holdup man yells, “Stick ’em up...
...Random House, $8.95...
...Campaign ‘72: The Managers Speak...
...State Information and Federal Region Book...
...Willard C. Richan, Allan R. Mendelsohn...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in September...
...Gordon L. &eil...
Vol. 5 • September 1973 • No. 7
