POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in May. All the President’s Men. Bob Woodwad, Carl Bernstein. Simon & Schuster, $7.95. Captive Capital: Colonial Life in...
...Robert Campbell...
...Captive Capital: Colonial Life in Modern Washington...
...Palisades Publishers, $8.45/$4.95...
...Quadran e/The The Curve of Binding Ener . John McPhee...
...Cornell, $14.50...
...There is one marvelous chapter about a day in the life of a justice of the peace...
...Norton, $6.95...
...Lexington...
...Rockefeller Power...
...Richard G. Niemi...
...Yale, $10...
...of dicago, $9.95...
...et, Court, $8.95...
...Martin’s, $8.95/$3.95...
...His commentary on the state of the news business, which alternates chapter by chapter with his memoirs, is sensible but rarely enlightening...
...Univ...
...Stuart Smith . In t e r national Publishers , $7.50/$2.75...
...The Chasm: The Life and Death of a Great Experiment in Ghetto Education...
...Henry Hohenstein...
...Daniel Lang...
...Edward Bliss, Jr...
...John Krizay, Andrew A. Wilson...
...Arrigo Levi...
...Judges...
...The thoroughness does present something of a problem, however, since Professor Berger tiresomely repeats everything we know in the process of telling us the fresh things he has to say...
...A thorough refutation of presidential claims of authority to withhold information from Congress, the courts, and the people...
...Nash, $7.95...
...The Movement: A Brief Historv of the American Left, 196Cj72...
...Democracy and Its Discontents: Reflections on Everyday America...
...Smith, editor of the D. C. Gazette, writes in a strident and at times off-putting style, but the facts he presents make a thorough and persuasive case against congressional control of the District’s affairs...
...Irwin Unger...
...Our Invaded Universities: Form, Reform, and New Starts...
...Donald Dale Jackson...
...Anatol Rapoport...
...Punishment and Deterrence...
...A journalist surveys the American judiciary...
...Walter La ueur...
...Elihu Bergman, et al., eds...
...Myer Kutz...
...The Future of Technological Civilization...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in May...
...John Stoessinger...
...Thomas Griffith...
...The IRS Conspiracy...
...Victor Ferkiss...
...Lexington...
...Avon, $1.95...
...Freedom for Sale: A National Study of...
...Univ...
...Doubleday, $10.95...
...The Twehre-Year Sentence: Radical Views of Compulsory Schooling...
...The story of Theodore Taylor’s lonely effort to alert the world to the dangers of nuclear accident or theft has been largely ignored by intellectuals, who resist any truth that might suggest a need for more rather than the less policing that we all prefer...
...Daniel J. Boorstin...
...Johannes Andenaes...
...This book is an exception...
...Pretrial Release...
...The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson, Volume IV: “Let’s Talk Sense to the American People,” 19521955...
...The Psychology of Politics...
...The 10 essays that make up this slim book are based on a lecture series Boorstin gave in 1972...
...Atlantic-Little Brown, $6.95...
...Houghton Mifflin, $5.95...
...The Patient as Consumer: Health Care Financing in the United States...
...Univ...
...Not brilliant, but consistently interesting...
...Walter Johnson, et al., eds., Little, Brown, $17.50...
...Free Press, $10.95/$5.95...
...of Michigan, $9...
...Although there is good sense in much of what he writes, the prose retains an oral, rhetorical style that leads to over-simplification and cliched writing (“A bewildered America still hasn’t found its bearings...
...William F. Stone...
...In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow 19381961...
...Albert Legault, George Lindsey...
...Paul B. Wice...
...Random House, $5.95...
...Still the book is quite informative, especially about the lesser-known figures...
...Atheneum, $10...
...Levi, a writer for the Italian daily, La Stampa, visited leading economists in Europe, Russia, and America (Heller, Friedman, Ackley, and a dozen more) and wrote a series of profile-interviews for his paper...
...Raoul Berger...
...Robert Bailey, Jr...
...Univ...
...Indiana, $8.50...
...U.S...
...Dodd, Mead, $5.95...
...Press of Hawaii, $4.95...
...Patriotism Without Flags...
...Jack Goldsmith, Sharon S. Goldsmith, eds...
...Open Court, $6.95...
...For television has brought us Too Much Too Soon...
...Strictly Personal...
...The author was for many years an editor at Time and Life, and his recollections of life inside the Luce publications are fascinating...
...William F. Rickenbacker, ed...
...Harvard, $14.95...
...John S. D. Eisenhower...
...The Dynamics of Nuclear Balance...
...of Michigan, $4.95...
...Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands...
...Fights, Games and Debates...
...Radicals in Urban Politics: The Alinsky A proach...
...The idea was far better suited to serial publication than to re-publication in one volume, for the style of the profiles becomes repetitious, and there is no coherent theme to tie them together...
...Neocolonialism in Africa...
...Ronnie Dugger...
...Why Nations Go to War...
...Confrontation: The Middle East and World Politics...
...Population Polic making in the American States: Issues andrbocesses...
...Gavan Daws...
...Journe Among the Economists...
...Farrar Straus & Giroux, $B5M.c Phee is a talented staff writer for The New Yorker who has unfortunately devoted most of his career to the trivial...
...Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth...
...The Police Community: Dimensions of an Occupational Subculture...
...Braziller, $12.50...
...How Family Members Perceive Each Other: Political and Social Attitudes in Two Generations...
...Lexington...
...How True: A Skeptic’s Guide to Believing the News...
...Sam Smith...
...Norton, $14.95...
Vol. 6 • May 1974 • No. 3
