POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in January. The Airship. Basil Collier. Putnam, $12.95. The author argues convincingly for a new look at the large rigid airship as...
...ation...
...Grossman, $8.95...
...Grossman, $7.95...
...Crowell, $10...
...John Tebbel...
...Formula plots, cynical marketing practices, and cut-throat competitiveness are just as prevalent in the upper echelons of good taste...
...Univ...
...The Media in America: A Political and Social History...
...The Pulse of Freedom: American Liberties, 1920s-1970s...
...Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporation...
...Univ...
...One example: A Vietnam vet with an injured eye was refused treatment because he once went home for Christmas a day early...
...In other words, the author’s failure is that he insufficiently examines what “other things being equal” means...
...Carl Weinberg...
...Stein & Day, f10...
...The material is interesting in inverse proportion to its recency...
...Kornblum displays a fondness for words like “primary group formation” and “primordial sentiments of kinship” and just barely avoids the most common occupational disease of sociologistsdraining the life from the people they set out to describe...
...Justice on the Hill: A Study of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees...
...In Defense of Homo Sapiens...
...Kissinger on the Couch...
...Victor R. Fuchs...
...Ja an: The Fragile Superpower...
...Kenneth Lasson...
...God, Caesar and the Constitution: The Court As Referee of Church-State Confront...
...Prentice-Hall, $12.50/5.95...
...Charles A. Cerami...
...Who Controls the Mass Media...
...The Welfare State and E uality: Structural and Ideolo ‘cal Roots 07 Public Ex endi ture...
...The Nation’s Cities: Change and Challenge...
...Columbia, $9.95...
...Macmillan, $10/3.95...
...Crisis: The Loss of Europe...
...It’s AU Arranged: 15 Hours in a Psychiatrist’s Life...
...The executive director of the ACLU offers a chilling presentation on the abuses of record-keeping by government and private institutions...
...Simon Breines, William J. Dean...
...Nash, f7.95...
...Although marred by a rather one-dimensional outlook and by overheated rhetoric-“The dossier-mongers never rest”-the book contains enough details about damage done by slanderous data to scare almost anyone...
...Michael Brecher...
...Seiden sets out to demolish liberal myths about the mass media...
...The use of helium would prevent another Hindenburg disaster...
...Norton, $12.95...
...Housewife...
...Phyllis Schafly, Chester Ward, Rear Admiral (Ret...
...The Political Image Merchants: Strategies for the Seventies...
...Center for Auto Safety...
...Putnam, $6.95...
...The public-interest organizations are also engaged in valuable work, monitoring everything from courts to pollution...
...This is a useful compilation of Analysis of Evaluation of Ias te...
...of Chicago, $9.95...
...Joan Marble Cook...
...Diana E. H. Russell...
...Praeger, $8.5013.50...
...The Trial of Martin Luther Kin . Alan F. Westin, Barry Mahoney...
...oP California, $8.9512.95...
...of Black America...
...Martin H. Seiden...
...Weybright & Talley, $15...
...Aryeh Neier...
...Richard J. Barnet, Ronald E. Muller...
...L. Wilensloj...
...Acropolis, $7.95/$4.95...
...Among the worst offenders, Neier says, are those who brand children for life as “troublemaker” with the stroke of a pen...
...He argues that when different ethnic groups are thrown together in factories, they eventually form friendships based on union and local politics...
...The Pedestrian Revolution: Streets Without Cars...
...James E. Anderson...
...For example, he cites statistics that show that the candidates who spend the most money in political campaigns lose more often than they win...
...Free Press, $17.95...
...The Border States...
...A thorough expose of all the scandals associated with this miserable industry, not the least of which is that we have permitted the housing situation in America to deteriorate to the point where these aesthetic horrors are the only homes available to people of modest income...
...aroi...
...Chudacoff...
...Public Policy-Making: Basic Concepts in Political Science Theory...
...Stein & Day, $7.95...
...Neil H. Jaco6y...
...The Bankers...
...Harper & Row, $8.95...
...Neal R. Peirce...
...Blue Collar Community...
...Although written in terse newspaperese, the individuals and groups described emerge as admirable, even inspiring...
...Flawed by too much jargon and too little wit, the book nevertheless suceeds in showing that high art-its artists and patrons-has much in common with popular culture...
...Basic, $10...
...Yet there is an oddly compelling note to this autobiography of a man who was forced out of the State Department on charges of being disloyal...
...Univ...
...Basic, $10...
...The Politics of Rape: The Victims’ Pers ective...
...Garry D. Brewer, Ronald D. Brunner, eds...
...Pantheon, $8.95...
...One hopes he is right...
...The author attempts-successfully more often than not-to explain a banking system few understand...
...The prose is so flat and the author so mild that the true insanity of an era that could consider such a man an enemy is all too clear...
...The trouble is that not one candidate will believe him, because they all know that, other things being equal, money does make a difference...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in January...
...The Strained Alliance: Pekin , P’yongyang, Robert Simmons...
...Martin Mayer...
...Yale, $25...
...Popular Culture and Hi h Culture: An Cans...
...of Pittsburgh, $12.95...
...Of course, some of these heroes are hardly unsung: Woodward and Bernstein, Herbert Denenberg, and the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...Grossman, $1516.95...
...Proudly We Hail: Profiles of Public Citizens in Action...
...Still, it’s well worth reading...
...Dossier: The Secret Files They Keep on You...
...Lerone Bennegtlta, Yri nf ohnson Publishing, $15.95...
...The concluding chapter is comfortingly titled, “Living on the Edge of the Abyss...
...Mobile Homes: The Low-Cost Housing Hoax...
...Education Is a Shuck: How the Educational System Is Failin Our Children...
...Frank Gigney...
...Free Press, $9.95...
...Ann Oakley...
...The Witness and I. 0. Edmund Clubb...
...Some solutions: Destroy all arrest records that do not result in conviction, and allow citizens to correct dossiers...
...Evolution of American Urban Society...
...Who Shall Live: Health, Economics, and Social Change...
...Clean Air: The olicies and Politics of Pollution Control...
...Patrick Healy, 111...
...Arlington House, $12.95...
...l h e obscure public citizens are more interesting, such as the “public service auto mechanic” in Maryland who teaches auto repair and is actually honest...
...This case for streets without cars is a welcome addition to the literature devoted to making our cities more livable...
...William Kornblum...
...Paul E. Paddock...
...Political Development and Change: A Policy Approach...
...A thorough but disappointingly conventional history of the press...
...The author argues convincingly for a new look at the large rigid airship as a solution to the energy and pollution problems...
...A. H. Chapman...
...China Diary: Crisis Di lomacy in Dairen...
...Norton, $10...
...Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, $7.95...
...This book is being promoted as another Gideon’s Trumpet, but it is neither as intrinsically interesting or as well done as Anthony Lewis’ book...
...Multinational Oil: A Studv in Industrial Dynamics...
...Decisions in Israel’s Foreign Policy...
...Herbert J. profiles of public-interest activists...
...John Lindsay, however, was omitted...
...Basic, $8.95...
...Peter H. Schuck...
...Simon & Schuster, $9.95...
...Vintage, $3.95...
...After reading the memoirs of John S . Service, John Paton Davies, and other honest foreign service officers in China, 0. Edmund Clubb’s reminiscences sound awfully familiar...
...Eharles 0. Jones...
...Farrar, Straus, & Girowc, $8.95...
...Alan Reitman, ed...
...Ray E. Hiebert, et al, eds...
...Morrow, $6.95...
...Leo Pfeffer, Beacon, $15...
...Norton, $12.50...
...Crowell, f7.95...
Vol. 6 • January 1975 • No. 11
