POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in July and August. The American Intellectual Elite. Charles Kadushin. Little, Brown, $8.95. Through social science methodology,...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...Bread or Justice: Grassroots Organizing in the Welfare Rights Movement...
...The Day the Pigs Refused to Be Driven to Market: Advertisin and the Consumer Revolution...
...Berkley, $$.95...
...Saturday Review...
...Lawrence Neil Bailis...
...A plodding, fact-laden tour through the political thicket that is county government...
...Richard Clutterbuck...
...William C. Osborn...
...the other, that black studies programs have generally failed...
...The two monographs in this book give a disappointing treatment to two important subjects...
...What has become so wearying about Nader books is their one-dimensional and pious view of their adversaries: “Scott management [is] apparently more interested in today’s balance sheet than tomorrow’s forest...
...A valuable guide to the political superbowl...
...This latest Nader book most of the weaknesses of the genre...
...Yale, $5.95/$1.95...
...Random House, $7.95...
...When Governments Come to Washington: Governors, Mayors, and Intergovernmental Lobbying...
...Viking, $8.95...
...Press, $10...
...Lexington, $12.50...
...John Helmer...
...Grassroots Government: The County in American Politics...
...Laurence Hewes...
...Brit Hume...
...The *I P o p u l a t i o n In st it ut e. Macmillan, .’ 64 $8.95/$3.95...
...Simon & Schuster, $7.95...
...John gublowsky...
...The book's lack of analysis is unfortunate because counties are our fastest growing governmental unit and no one has yet clearly explained what the more than one million county employees really do all day...
...Lexington, $14...
...God in Public: Political Theology Beyond Neibuhr...
...Testing lheories of Economic Imperialism...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...Patrick T. Murphy...
...Kissinger...
...Steven J. Rosen, James 5. Kurth...
...Forrest McDonald...
...The Stoned A e: A History of Dru in America...
...Instead of hitting the easy targets-the UN’s impotence and its featherbedded nature-the authors argue persuasively that the UN, as a stage for sym bolic showdowns, actually increases world tensions...
...Kurt London, ed...
...relatively little effect on the turns of events of the 1960s.’’ Kadushin, who took great pains to determine the 70 leading intellectuals, seems to place a ra$er inflated value on his accomplishment: [Ilt is our impression that the new editor of The New tion: An International Review...
...The indictment of the paper industry in Maine is detailed and convincing, but the book suffers from a repetitious tone and a prose style that produces acronym-clogged phrases like “government officials from the U. S. EPA, the IJC and Maine’s EIC met with the company...
...Both authors’ biases loom over every page, but the black studies section is better documented...
...Biles Copeland...
...Civil-Military Relations: Changing Concepts in the Seventies...
...The Daupters-An Unconventional Look at Americas Fan Club: “he DAR...
...Her book is a well-documented, understated reminder of how little the Food and Drug Administration has done about hazardous food additives since that time...
...But otherwise, her book is both surprising and good...
...Charles L. Black, Jr...
...Free Press, $12.95...
...Through social science methodology, Kadushin comes to some lame conclusions about the impact of our leading “thinkers” on public policy: “[TI he facts are unclear...
...Black Studies Revisited...
...Abraham Yeselson, Anthony Gaghone...
...The Population Activist’s Handbook...
...Donald H. Haider...
...Bringing the War Home: Ihe American Solder in Vietnam and After...
...B. Eerdmans, $7.95...
...tear e Roche...
...But, like the program compared to the game, its orderliness is a pale contrast to the colorful chaos on Capitol Hill...
...Free Press, $14.95...
...Martin’s, $10...
...The Paper Plantation...
...Alexander Kendrick...
...William R. Coats...
...One argues that quota programs for hiring women at universities are a bad idea...
...For 95 per cent of its length this is an extremely impressive analysis, tying political, cultural, and financial themes together ’ into an explanation of our apparently insoluble economic crises...
...Eating May Be Hazardous to Your Health...
...Univ...
...Peggy Anderson...
...The Balancin Act: Quota Hiring in Higher Education...
...What the book also fails to explain is how the paper companies managed to dominate Maine politics despite a series of seemingly liberal governors beginning with Ed Muskie...
...Charles L. Cochran, ed...
...Open Court, $8.95...
...Abelaard-Schuman, $8.95...
...Etomac Books, $2...
...The Phaeton Ride: The Failure of American Success...
...Death of the State...
...Hawthorn...
...The Soviet Impact on World Politics...
...The Unheavenly City Revisited...
...Lexington, $16.50...
...Marvin Kalb, Bernard Kalb...
...of California, $8.95...
...PeFer T. Nanicas...
...Little, Brown, $10...
...McCandlish Phillips...
...Without Cloak or Da er: lhe Truth About the New E ionage...
...Liveright, $7.95...
...Cary T. Grayson, Susan Lukowski...
...A Dangerous Place: The United Nations as a Weapon in World Politics...
...But at his best, in the chapter on education and the one on the relationship between unemployment and the minimum wage, Banfield provides a refreshing tonic to liberal orthodoxy...
...Citizenshi Between Elections: An Inquiry into the gobilizable American...
...The Nuclear Trap...
...Ihe Impeachment Con ss...
...Free Press, $10.95...
...Our Kindly Parent-The State: The Juvenile System and How It Works...
...Robert E. Walters...
...Rural Development: World Frontiers...
...Alan keynolds, Ernest van den Haag...
...Robin bight...
...City Notebook: A Reporter’s Portrait of a Vanishing New York...
...Luce, $7.95...
...James N. Roseneau...
...PenOil and the Congressional Process: The Limits of Symbolic Politics...
...Impeachment: A Handbook...
...The Wound Within: America in the Vietnam Years 1945-1974...
...Sadly, the other five per cent is an ill-humored and unnecessary attack on environmentalists and Ralph Nader, which damages the book’s integrity...
...Edward C. Banfield...
...Grossman, $7.95...
...An original and important debunking study of the United Nations...
...Protest and the Urban Guerrilla...
...12.50...
...Reviewed by Roger Morris beginning on page 51 of this issue of The Washington Monthly...
...Jacqueline Verrett is the government scientist who raised the alarm about cyclamates...
...Susan Walker Torrence...
...Putnam, $7.95...
...Allen Yamell...
...Democrats and Progressives: The 1948 Presidential Election as a Test of Postwar Liberalism...
...An adapted excerpt begins on page 7 of this issue of The Washington Monthly...
...Jacqueline Verrett, Jean Carper...
...The elite intellectuals, the data suggests, may actually have had...
...Free Press, $10.95...
...Bruce Ian Oppenheimer...
...By the way, Daniel Bell is our “leading intellectual...
...Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America Tony Castro...
...3 ean van der York Times Book Review must be assigning reviews with our list of stars in hand...
...Iowa State Univ...
...Simon & Schuster,?7.95...
...Inside Story...
...Even the chapter on the state legislature suffers from a perfunctory tone and a good government tendency to blame everything on inadequate salaries and staff...
...In her effort to understand the DAR the author sometimes leans so far backward that she seems to join the ladies in the 18th century...
...Grossman, $8.95...
...In this revision of his 1970 work, Banfield is as infuriatingly condescending about the poor as ever, still arguing that “lower class culture is pathological...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in July and August...
Vol. 6 • July 1974 • No. 5
