POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in March. Alive in the City: Memoir of an Ex-Commis- The American People: A Noted Journalist sioner. August Heckscher. Scribner’s,...
...Paul R. Clancy...
...Morrow, $4.95...
...The lectures are wellintentioned, deadly dull, and contain nothing you haven’t heard before...
...Doubleday, $10...
...The Nazi Movement in the United States, 1924-1941...
...By the time OEO was nearly abolished last year, more than 100 of these Neighborhood Health Centers had been established...
...illustration or evidence for his arguments...
...The Political Sta e: American Drama and Goldstein...
...Grossman, $15/$7.58...
...Norton, $12.95...
...Charterhouse, $6.95...
...Evidence to substantiate the rumor that there are more people writing about public television than viewers watching it...
...Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, $7.95...
...he led the fight against an anti-evolution bill in the North Carolina legislature a few months before the Scopes trial...
...win...
...modern life...
...Them and Us: Stru gles for a Rank-and-File Union...
...Weybright & Talley, $8.95...
...Karen Orren...
...This book is a reprint of a series of lectures Macy gave after resigning in 1972 as the first president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting...
...Choosing Our King: Powerful Symbols in The American Condition...
...Hugh Heclo, Aaron Wildavsky...
...This useful collection of essays covers government secrecy in Canada, England, and the United States...
...Robert M. Hollister, et al...
...Critique of Legal Order: Crime Control in Capitalist Society...
...Prentice-Hall, $6.95...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in March...
...Neal R. Peirce...
...Doubleday, $6.95...
...The Ri hts of Suspects...
...Corporate Power and Social Change: The Politics of the Life Insurance Industry...
...This is a serious book and Still, even though he’s infuriating, Novak’s worthy of close attention, yet it would have mind is Wgestive enough to make the book been much better had it been free of an worthreading...
...Treaties and Alliances of the World...
...This book tells how the program really worked out...
...Secrecy and Foreign Policy...
...The analyses of the inability of our economic author’s thesis: “American civilization is and political institutions to increase individ- best understood as a set of secular religious ual freedom, which he defines in broadest Systems...
...One hopes the revisionist historians will read this excellent account of the year 1946-47 when the Truman Doctrine took shape...
...and in 1946 he spent seven months in the U. S. House of Representatives filling the unexpired term of his younger brother, Joe, who committed suicide...
...Mana ement: Tasks, Res onsibilities, Practices.% eter F. Drucker...
...Goodwin adds an Macmillan, $7.95...
...Will the former Secretary of the Treasury become bedeviled by those who suffered his economic impositions, or is Big John just a phase we’re going through...
...Indiana, $8.50...
...Knopf, $6.95...
...Cornell, $15...
...Power to Persuade: Mass Media and the News...
...Explores the Findings of the 1970 Census...
...Gene Radano...
...But it says nothing new about E t e r - m gate and is little help- in unraveling the contradictions of a man in love with the Constitution but oblivious to the Fourteenth Amendment...
...Mary McCarthy...
...The book contains some interesting snippets from “Senator Sam’s’’ career: he was friends with Thomas Wolfe in college...
...Johns Hopkins, $10...
...Tender Loving Greed...
...The Secrets Business...
...Litvinov replied, “It would lead to the West being faced, after a moreor-less short time, with the next series of demands...
...Bantam, $1.25...
...Keesing Research Reports...
...The Deep South States of America: People Politics, and Power in the Seven States oi the Deep South...
...d r p e r & ROW, $15...
...Stein & Day, $6.95...
...Norman Langmate...
...The Kindgom of Oil: The Middle East-Its Peo le and Its Power...
...Morrow, $7.95...
...Oxford, $17.50...
...To the extent that he sees examples are needed, there’s only one...
...The Security Council: A Study in Adolescence...
...To Irrigate a Wasteland...
...State and Society: A Reader in Com arative Political Sociolo Reinhard Bengx, ed...
...California, $15.75...
...Three to Get Ready: The Education of a White Family in Urban Schools...
...Oliver Rosengart (An ACkU Handbook...
...Margin of Life: Population and Poverty in the Americas...
...The Seventeenth Degree...
...This book is about the admirable depth, rigor, and precision to role Of symbols in presidential politics...
...Lois M. Stalvey...
...Charterhouse, $7.95...
...Goodwin displays this when he gives virtually no factual Connally: The Adventures of Bi Bad John...
...Some interesting information about Connally is spoiled by comments like: “Can a poor boy from Texas find happiness in Washington, D. C...
...Dial, $7.95...
...Litvinov cited two reasons...
...A forceful reminder of how close a call 1940 was and of how we all might react if the Himmlers (or-even their milder Haldeman cousins) got control...
...Stein & Day, $8.95...
...Micronesia at the Crossroads...
...Lights on in the House of the Dead: A Pnson Diary...
...California, $5.75...
...a potential source of change, it is in a Either Novak had a very undemanding editor sharpened sense of “the immense and in- or he is the kind of writer who, when asked creasing gap between our physical capacity to explain, invariably answers, “Oh, that to increase freedom and the conditions of would take another book if I went into it...
...Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other...
...Cold Winter, Cold War...
...Hottelet asked what the result would be if the Wester powers acquiesed to the then-current Soviet demands regarding Trieste, the Italian colonies, the Danube...
...memoir...
...Why...
...But, even allowing for the exaggerations of fact promised by the authors’ style, one is convinced that decent businessmen should change the locks on their safes...
...Free Press, $8.95...
...in Moscow] that conflict betweel, the Communist and capitalist worlds is inevitable...
...The author-editors conclude “unauthorized information will remain democracy’s principal antidote to unlimited, highly concentrated power...
...Scribner’s, $8.95...
...Avon, $.95...
...the New York City bureaucracy...
...Oxford, $15...
...Again and again where one example often felt to be missing in the modern would clarify, it’s not there...
...Malcolm international industrial espionage...
...Thomas M. Franck, Edward Weisband, ed...
...Religion and Revolution...
...Novak continually comes to the terms to include those qualities of commu- brink of breathtaking insight only to back nity and control over one’s circumstances away...
...Intellectual Skywriting: Literary Politics and The New York Review of Books...
...Sander A. Diamond...
...An innocent establishmentarian encounters E. J. Kahn, Jr...
...Lexington, $14...
...The outlook is bad,” Litvinov replied...
...Avon, $,95...
...Little, Brown, $7.95...
...It seems as though the differences between East and West have gone too far to be reconciled...
...First: “There has been a return in Russia to the outmoded concept of security in terms of territory-the more you’ve got, the safer you are...
...Dateline America: Dispatch from an Altering Nation...
...Dorm Pearce...
...Robert Cirino...
...Scribner’s, $8.95...
...where two bureaucratic state...
...A pleasant An alternately mind-numbing and fascinatbut slightly smug and not very enlightening ing survey of the results of the 1970 Census...
...Stephen Barlay...
...Based on a television series, but better than that sounds...
...Oxford, $13.95...
...Scribner’s, $12.50...
...Mary Adelaide Mendelson...
...Carl Heine...
...Guenter Lewy...
...And second: “As far as I’m concerned, the root cause is the ideological conception prevailing here [i.e...
...Janet Roebuck...
...Charles Ashman...
...The Shaping of Urban Society...
...Just a Country Lawyer: A Biography of Senator Sam Ervin...
...John W. Macy, Jr...
...If Britain Had Fallen...
...Michael Novak...
...T. Y. Crowell, $7.95...
...QriLer’s, $7.95...
...Dying in the Sun...
...Most of the material concerns Britain and America, but there is an occasional fascinating glimpse of the other side, including this report of an interview Richard C. Hottelet of CBS conducted with Maxim Litvinov in 1946 while Litvinov was still serving in the Soviet foreign ministry: Hottelet asked Litvinov how he saw the prospects for East-West cooperation...
...The Private Government of Public Money...
...Bennett Kremen...
...In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity began a program designed to combine anti-poverty efforts with new ideas in health care...
...Cornell Ca a, J. Mayone Stycos...
...California, $1 7.5%/?$5.95...
...Robert G. Kaiser...
...This collection of articles, mainly from academic journals, vividly demonstrates how varied the centers’ records have been, but it eventually makes a convincing case that the idea is worth pursuing...
...Stein & Day, $8.95...
...Richard Quinney...
...With President Johnson looking on at the White House in September 1967, the Life Insurance Association of America announced that its member companies had pledged to invest $1 billion to bring housing and employment to the nation’s slums...
...Sylvia Law (An ACLU handbook...
...Hottelet did not use the interview at the time, fearing that Stalin would not forgive Litvinov...
...Clancy is a biographer of “the Ervin house was almost always filled with the smell of something cooking” school...
...The prose is somewhat academic, but the story is important, and the author’s analysis is often brilliant...
...Neighborhood Health Centers: What Do Demonstration Projects Demonstrate...
...Richard Hiscocks...
...unpleasant clay-tablets tone...
...Philip Nobile...
...James J. %atles, James Higgins...
...A melodramatic account of Theater of the 2re at Depression...
...Daniel Berrigan...
...Ray Vicker...
...Hawaii, $10/$2.95...
...Mendelson’s article on nursing homes in the January Washington Monthly was based on research for this book...
...Richard N. Good- Presidential Politlcs...
...The Ri hts of the Poor...
Vol. 6 • March 1974 • No. 1
