POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Books to be published in October. American Arms and a Chan ing Europe: Dilemmas of Deterrence and % isarmament. William T. R. Fox, et al. Columbia, $12/$3.9 5. The...
...Kirkpatrick writes even-handedly and with insight...
...Revolutionaries...
...Stanley Aronowitz...
...Macmillan, $9.95...
...Charles Kikuchi...
...Watergate: Crime in the Suites...
...Putnam’s, $7.95...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Jr...
...Schocken, $7.50/f2.95...
...A pedestrian examination of the problem of civil and criminal justice by the former U. S. Attorney from New York City...
...Scandals in the Hi est Office...
...Hope Ridings tion: big promises and no delivery, all presented in the “of course no one believes those rumors, but...
...But as long as the CIA’s record is kept clean, its men are no longer curious about what’s going on elsewhere...
...Charles Whited...
...Random House, $6.95...
...The Go-Go Years...
...Young Outsiders: A Study in Alternative Communities...
...Miller...
...Westminster...
...Sherrill’s splendid outrage is not accompanied here by the understanding that distinguishes his work at its best...
...Opening Up the Suburbs: An Urban Strate for America...
...Random Bou se, $6.95...
...Katharine Chorley...
...Armies and the Art of Revolution...
...Downs does not minimize the political difficulties nor ridicule the suburbanite’s concern for property values...
...Robert Jewett...
...Thomas Boslooper, Marcia Hayes...
...America in the Cold War...
...John Pekkanen...
...How close we came to having Wallace for President instead of Truman...
...Tightly argued, filled with fact, this look at the “ethical” drug industry may induce severe depression among its readers...
...Ed Cray...
...As Sam Ervin demonstrated during the Watergate hearings, you can prove anything by choosing the right Biblical quotations...
...Anderson accepts his blame with all the penitent sincerity of Nixon taking the responsibility for Watergate...
...Richard N. Farmer...
...of Illinois, $8.95...
...The former head of The Los Angeles Times New York bureau warns that “this book is concerned as much with Dougherty as McGovern, perhaps more SO...
...And the Cold War might have been averted, although Josef Stalin might well have brought about that war on his own...
...The Price of Vision: The Diary of Henry A. Wallace, 1942-1946...
...Brian Boyer...
...The U. S. Intelligence Community...
...Willem E. Oltmans, ed...
...Dial, $10...
...The Ca tain America Complex: The Dilemma of Lalous Nationalism...
...Beacon, $10.50/$3.25...
...Jon Kimche...
...The Decoy Man: The Extraordinary Adventures of an Undercover Cop...
...Eric T. Hobsbawn...
...Yale, $7.9...
...An hour later, according to Harris, the North Vietnamese offered the compromise which led to the eventual agreement...
...Cities Destroyed for Cash...
...Westminster, $3.95...
...Fresh thinking about the extremely difficult legal and emotional problems involved in child custody cases...
...When any personnel rating less ecstatic than’ “the best man I have known” condemns an officer to a career of frustration, it is not surprising that eccentricity, not to mention principled dissent, vanishes from the armed forces...
...James Fallows’ review of this book appears in this issue...
...An example was his strategic thinking during World War 11: He was continually trying to get the generals to focus on what he regarded as the crucial front-Alaska...
...Acropolis, $4.95/$2.75...
...God and Mammon at the Harvard Business School...
...The Medical Detectives...
...The Femininity Game...
...The End of the American Future...
...Jean-Jacques Salomon...
...After finishing this book we have new reason to hope our fighting men are never put to the test, at least under officers promoted by the system Loory describes...
...Norton, $9.95...
...he even attempts to unravel the sticky connections between the CIA and the rest of the country...
...This Vast External Realm...
...Paulette Cooper...
...What stands out in this book is Loory’s portrayal of the military promotion system...
...Pantheon, $6.95...
...Stein and Day, $7.95...
...A theologian’s efforts to relate the messianic streak in American foreign policy to its Biblical roots...
...1 Never Danced at the White House...
...McKay, $6.95...
...Charterhouse, $8.95...
...Stuart H. Loory...
...Tell LBJ he’s losing the war...
...Instead, he tries-and generally succeeds-to fashion an integration strategy which meets these objections squarely...
...Carl SRoidlbinergg . HP ason & Lipscomb, $10...
...MIT, $12.50...
...Harry Dexter White: A Study in Paradox...
...Robert J. Myers...
...Doubleday, $10...
...The useful insights in this collection of essays are unfortunately pinioned under a heap of sociological language...
...Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, Albert J. Solnit...
...A complex and ambitious book which correctly recognizes the importance of achieving economic integration in our suburban areas...
...he Burden of Proof...
...The Real World of 1984...
...Why Justice Fails...
...No effort is too heroic if necessary to protect the agency’s honor: Rebuff Haldeman...
...Goodbye, Mr...
...McKay, $6.95...
...Louis Harris...
...Donald F. Anderson...
...Defeated: Inside America’s Military Machine...
...William Howard Taft: A Conservative’s Conception of the Presidency...
...Those who were charmed by the grace of Jack Anderson’s “apology” on Face the Nation last year will enjoy the expanded account of the Eagleton affair in this volume...
...Houghton-Mifflin, $15...
...Presidential Television...
...On Growth: The World’s Leading Thinkers on the Crisis of the Population Explosion and the Exhaustion of Resources...
...Hill & Wang, $7.95...
...Charles V. Hamilton...
...Death in American Ex erience...
...McGraw-Hill, $8.95...
...Bau Ruo-wan (Jean Ec%%% Rudolph Chelminski...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $12.50...
...Pat McGrady...
...The possibilities of the simultaneous performance of the two roles are thoroughly explored in this genuinely fascinating book...
...The prefaci suggests that this book “could be the Chinese Solzhenitsyn...
...At the heart of this generally admirable book lies the same idea of bureaucratic courage that the CIA’s Vernon Walters displayed at the Watergate hearings...
...Sadly, he hasn’t turned his analytical powers on the agency itself and asked how much of its efforts are worthwhile, or what sort of intelligence we really need...
...Not an adaptation of Mutiny on the Bounty, this is the campaign memoirs of McGovern’s on-again, off-again press secretary...
...David Rees...
...Anthony Downs...
...Peter Cohen...
...An American Made Tragedy: Neo-Colonialism and Dictatorship In the Philippines...
...For example, Dougherty explains many of the staff problems by noting McGovern’s never-spoken rewrite of that old Grouch0 Marxjoke: “If a man would work for George McGovern, he couldn’t amount to much...
...Univ...
...The Saturday Night Special...
...He was, at the same time, according to Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley, a Communist agent...
...Sar A. Levitan, Karen A. Cleary...
...Richard Burt, Geoffrey Kemp, eds...
...Many of us have feared that the military is too eager for chances to ply its craft...
...Basic, $8.95...
...The Anguish of Change...
...Putnam’s, $7.95...
...Religion and Violence...
...Robert McAfee Brown...
...Jack Anderson with George Clifford...
...political book notes Books to be published in October...
...The Mind Managers...
...Playboy, $7.95...
...Nonetheless, it is absorbing reading on a topic not much reported in these days of the Great Chinese-American Friendship Pact...
...The Persecuted Drug: The Story of DMSO...
...The Anderson Papers...
...of Kansas, $5.95...
...Oxford, $12.50...
...vein...
...Faced with the usual problem of Vice Presidents-nothing to do beyond presiding over the Senate-Henry Wallace filled the empty hours by keeping a diary...
...Whitney North Seymour, Jr...
...Inflation: The Permanent Problem of Boom and Bust...
...Basic, $8.95...
...Follett, $7.95...
...Between accounts of lunches with Walter Lippmann and Teddy White are sprinkled some interesting judgments...
...Norton, $6.95...
...International Publishers, $1.95...
...His solutions, however, are not flawless and occasionally important arguments are buttressed by little more than liberal faith...
...Art Buchwald...
...False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness...
...Harry Dexter White was a key assistant to Henry Morgenthau, Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Treasury...
...The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp...
...There Could Have Been Peace: The Untold Story of Why We Failed With Palestine and Again With Israel...
...Robert Sherrill...
...toward Geoghegan, $7.95...
...Beacon...
...Newton N. Minow, John Bartlow Martin, Lee M. Mitchell...
...Putnam’s, $6.95...
...Beyond the Best Interests of the Child...
...Univ...
...The Black Experience in American Politics...
...Arien Mack, ,ed...
...Peter I. Rose, Stanley Rothman, William J. Wilson...
...If the delegates to the 1944 convention had been permitted to vote for the vice-presidency the night he enthralled them with his seconding speech for Roosevelt, Wallace would almost certainly have been renominated...
...Richard Dougherty...
...Old W&s Remain Unfinished: The Veteran Benefits System...
...Robert Lekachman...
...Through Different Eyes: Black and White Perspectives on American Race Relations...
...Congressional Hearings on American Defense Policy, 1947-1 971 : An Annotated Bibliography...
...Wallace’s mind took some bizarre turns...
...Cornell, $15...
...Pantheon, $7.95...
...Random House, $10...
...Free Press, $7.95/$1.95...
...John Brooks...
...Herbert I. Schiller...
...Morrow, $6.95...
...The Tragedy of Richard 11...
...Seymour, like most public officials who have books published, is far more daring in surveying well-known problems than in proposing solutions...
...Weybright & Talley, $10...
...Richard Mills...
...Columbia, $12/$3.9 5. The American Connection...
...Johns Hopkins, $10...
...This important book demonstrates the stupidity of giving aid to veterans who don’t need it while refusing to help non-veterans who do...
...On October 8 Kissinger brandished this poll at the Pans peace talks as evidence the North Vietnamese should stop hoping for McGovern’s election...
...William J. Pomeroy . International Publishers, $8/$2.95...
...The author’s attempt to find a “scandal” in Lyndon Johnson’s relation with one of his White House Fellows is simply ludicrous...
...Michael Myerson...
...Dean Achesm...
...Jeanne Nienaber, Aaron Wildavsky...
...Prisoner of Mao...
...The result is absorbing...
...John Morton Blum, ed...
...Peter Schrag...
...Random House, $5.95/$1.95...
...Obviously, the problems discussed in “The Morality of Medicine” by David Ignatius in this issue of The Washington Monthly are far from unique...
...The Budgeting and Evaluation of Federal Recreation Programs, or, Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees...
...Simon & Schuster, $7.95...
...Not quite...
...Pure titillaScience and Politics...
...Christian...
...9.95...
...Its narrow focus on life in a Chinese prison camp blocks out some of the larger social and political questions...
...Doubleday, $6.95...
...Follett, $7.95...
Vol. 5 • October 1973 • No. 8
