POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in November. An Age of Mediocrity. C. L. Sulzberger. World. Louis Turner. Farrar, Straus & Macmflan, $12.95. Giroux, $7.95. The...
...Political Opinion Polls...
...James M. Perry...
...Carl Solberg...
...Random House, $7.95...
...The ‘Devil and John Foster Dulles: The Diplomacy of the Eisenhower Era...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...The Politics of Massive Resistance...
...Carl B. Stokes...
...Mason & Lipscomb, $12.95...
...It suffers, however, from an academic tone and a severe shortage of flesh-and-blood examples...
...of California, $12.95...
...William T. Moore...
...Michael Crozier...
...A fine understanding of the bureaucratic frame of mind turns this study of the Defense Department into more than just another descriptive exercise...
...Delightful and perceptive account of the press and its coverage of the 1972 presidential campaign...
...Maverick Inventor: My Turbulent Years at CBS...
...Nevertheless, Solberg canters swiftly through a whole range of recent history and rarely slows down enough to get dull...
...Watergate: Crime in the Suites...
...Multinational Companies and the Third Plowshares Into Swords: Managing the American Defense Establishment...
...The Revolt of the Cockroach People...
...Atlantic-Little, Brown, $15...
...How the Cold War was frozen hard by Eisenhower’s foreign minister, absorbingly told by the author of The Limits of Intervention...
...The Bureaucratization of the World...
...Robert Hargreaves...
...Christopher Elias...
...Arthur Fletcher...
...An even mix of self-absolution and inside dope...
...The Gospel According to Harvard Business School...
...F. Terr & J. D. Spence...
...Pantheon, $7.95...
...Viking, $6.95...
...Townsend Hoopes...
...Ramparts, $3.45...
...Braziller, $8.95...
...Michael Myerson...
...Jonathan David, $8.95...
...Third Press, $7.95...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in November...
...The Dollar Barons...
...Superpower: A Portrait of America in the ’70s...
...Houghton Mifflin, $10...
...Pileup on Death Row...
...Dateline Chicago: A Veteran Newsman Recalls Its Heyday...
...Stephen A. Rowan...
...Straight Arrow, $7.95...
...Horizons of War: The Next Decade...
...Saturday Review, $7.95...
...Doubleday, $10...
...Theodore G. Vincent, ed...
...Ballantine, $1.95...
...Univ...
...This is an earnest account by the former mayor of Cleveland of the fortunate circumstances (a friendship with Cyrus Eaton, for one) that led up to the tribulations of his short career in power...
...Oscar Zeta Acosta...
...Herbert Gans...
...Simon & Schuster, $7.95...
...Martin’s, $10...
...Promises of Power: A Political Autobiography...
...Politics is no box of Crackejacks according to the first black mayor in the U.S...
...John Gabree...
...of Kentucky, $1 1. The Imperial Presidency...
...In what amounts to a readable source book for the Cold War era, Solberg packs in all the familiar history, but he rarely takes the time to analyze it and find new conclusions, and that’s what this material needs...
...The author has a penchant for the mot memoesque, but he drives home a number of lively points, including his checklist on how the government can get more for its money when buying weapons...
...Roger A. Beaumont, ed...
...Francis M. Wilhoit...
...Surviving the City...
...Henry Jacoby...
...An important and lucid analysis of the anti-integration movement in the South during the 1950s and its ultimate failure...
...Riding High: America in the Cold War...
...Timothy Crouse...
...Burton H. Wolfe...
...The Stalled Society...
...He never really confronts his stated purpose-“This book is about the unintended consequences of the Cold War”-because his book ends at the start of the decade when all the consequences tumbled out...
...Us and Them: How the Press Covered the 1972 Election...
...Macmillan, $8.95...
...Clarkson Potter, $7.95...
...Hillary House, $10/$6.75...
...Mason & Lipscomb, $10...
...More Equality...
...They Wouldn’t Let Us Die: 26 Prisoners of War Tell Their Story...
...Voices of a Black Nation: Political Journalism in the Harlem Renaissance...
...Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr...
...International Publishers, $1.95...
...Peter Cohen...
...Peter C. Goldmark with Lee Edson...
...An intelligent treatment of the basic problem of our time...
...J. A. Stockfisch...
...The Boys on the Bus...
...Univ...
...The Silent Sell-Out...
...Taplinger, $7.95...
Vol. 5 • November 1973 • No. 9
