POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in October. Adlai: The S ringfield Years. Patricia Harris. Aurora, $7.9$. Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena....
...Robert WinterBerger...
...Expendable Americans...
...War and Presidential Power: A Chronicle of Congressional Surrender...
...Richard G. Hewlett, Francis Duncan...
...Maureen Mylander...
...Marcus Raskin...
...Essays by Milton Friedman, et al...
...Peace in the Middle East: Reflections on Justice and Nationhood...
...of California, $5.95...
...It was very effective ridicule...
...Donald I. Warren...
...The two accounts generally agree on most points, although Nixon’s Good Deed suffers from ‘an overreliance on HEW bureaucrats as sources...
...On the Street...
...Weybright & #alley, $12.50...
...Edgar Berman...
...Good insiders’ reports on our major industries are rare, and ITT should be especially rich territory...
...of Chicago, $7.95...
...is a visual medium...
...Macmillan, $6.95...
...Tales of ITT: An Insider’s Report...
...The Benchwarmers: The Private World of the Powerful Federal Jud es...
...Houghton Mifflin...
...John L. Kelly, Richardson R. Mathison...
...Highway Robbery: An Analysis of the Gasoline Crisis...
...Note the tasteful way Stuart handled Richard Wels...
...He spoke about the sexual proclivities of Wels’ wife and eldest daugher...
...This Workin Class Majority...
...A chapter from this book begins on page 35...
...Pocket Books, $1.25...
...Quadrangle, $7.95...
...Columbia Univ., $8.95...
...An ambitious and generally intriguing explanation of how and why money lures us on-disappointing only because whenver analysis is called for, Wiseman hands out undigested Freud to explain what he could have explained better himself...
...Lawrence F. O’Brien...
...Joe Mathewson...
...Bob Wilson, but looking for them is teethgritting, hard work...
...California Water: A Study in Resource Management...
...J. Harvie Wilkinson 111...
...An intelligent, but unoriginal, look at presidential campaigns in the wake of Watergate...
...Milton Eisenhower...
...The Money Motive...
...Like his views on Vietnam, Chomsky’s proposals for the Middle East (which involve a better deal for the Palestinians), contain a germ of wisdom...
...Harper & Row, $8.95...
...The Generals...
...Univ...
...Racial Conflict and the American Mayor...
...But, like his writings on the war this book is tedious, repetitious, and prone to an oversimplified view of motives personal and national...
...Random House, $7.95...
...Thomas S. Burns...
...The Presidential CampaiR: The Leadership Selection Process After atergate...
...Univ...
...Noam Chomsky...
...But the author, who left ITT after working at a doomed project and observing the San Diego convention shenanigans, has written a shallow narrative in the Mickey SpiUane style...
...Most of the letters are of the “many, many thanks for your most generous contribution to the Republican Congressional Boosters Club” variety...
...The Sea Change...
...Taking Sides: A Personal View of America from Kennedy to Nixon to Kennedy Richard J. Whalen...
...Nuclear Navy, 1946-1962...
...He talked about Wels, whom he jestingly labeled Welsinki...
...Univ...
...Saturday Review, $7.95...
...Ike’s brother worked for eight Presidents...
...Braziller, $8.95/3.00...
...L. B. Taylor, Jr...
...H. Stuart Hughes...
...Basic, $12.95...
...Serving Justice: A Supreme Court Clerk‘s View...
...David Hapgood...
...Doubleday, $10...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in October...
...But even these reflected Gerald Ford‘s bad judgment in being indebted to someone like Winter-Berger...
...From six of them he received significant assignments...
...Open Court, $9.95...
...Robert Vaughn...
...Scribner’s, $8.95...
...The Spoiled System: A Call For the Reform of the Civil Service...
...A Strategy for the Future: The Systems Approach to World Order...
...David Seckler, ed...
...Thomas Wiseman...
...Times have changed, though, and Levison goes to great lengths to reassure us that, contrary to reports of their demise, blue collar workers still constitute a majority...
...They agree with Moyni,han’s condemnation of the liberals who backed away from the program...
...The Politician Primeval...
...Thomas F. Eagleton...
...McKay, $6.95/2.95...
...The Gerald Ford Letters...
...Arnold A. Hutschnecker...
...The Burke’s tend to overemphasize the importance of the bureaucratic planning and underestimate political maneuvering and personal conflicts...
...Joseph C. Goulden...
...A Symposium on Friedman’s Theoretical Framework...
...The prose is so over-written that the points of most of Berman’s arguments get lost in the verbal fog...
...Stephen Hess...
...of Chicago, $12.50...
...Pantheon, $7.95/1.95...
...M. Evans, $7.95...
...The important work of which he is capable...
...The son...
...Doubleday...
...Indiana, $10...
...Morton Sobell...
...Brookings, $2.50...
...Liveright, $8.95...
...The apparent purpose of this book by a Hubert Humphrey crony is to argue that the political drive is inherent in all organisms...
...The President Is Calling...
...They are a bit more progressive than the middle class and are discontented with the shape of their lives...
...But Burke’s just as passionately advocate a feder this book has one marvelous chapter on the Chicago judiciary which exposes the indifference of not onlv the Dalev machine but of D Kennedy and Jobon-ani even the sainted Paul Douglas-to the quality of their judicial appointments...
...Informative though exceedingly reverent view of life on the Court by a young Virginian who was one of Lewis Powell’s first clerks...
...In addition a new villain emerges-Wilbur Cohen, Johnson’s last Secretary of HEW, who comes across as an intellectually dishonest incrementalist...
...Andrew LeviCowart McCann & Geoghegan, $8.95...
...Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr...
...Ben J. Wattenberg...
...Doubleday, $12.5r Notes on the Old System: To Transform American Politics...
...Joel Primack, Frank von Hippel...
...Cold War America...
...Dial...
...To believe Burns, half of ITT’s staff spends its time ogling secretaries (who are always “miniskirted”) or hopping from bar to bar (where, of course, “the cocktail flag was flying...
...This lengthy account of his experience is only moderately interesting in terms of its insight and contribution to history, but it is consistently beguiling in its revelation of the author as a genuinely attractive man who combines many of the best traits in the American character...
...William Wright...
...Goulden is a talented reporter with a selfdefeating tendencv toward iust enough lazihe was defamed by Winter-Berger’s first book, The Washington Pay-Off: “One month later, Lyle Stuart wrote his next guest column for Screw...
...Charterhouse, $7.95...
...Viking, $8.9512.9 5. For All Mankind: America’s Space Programs of the 1970s and Beyond...
...Paul Brodeur...
...At times Hess provides such startling revelations as: “Television...
...Nothing in the book adds to Winter-Berger’s testimony against Ford during his confirmation hearings...
...Mike Cherry...
...Dan Rather, Gary Paul Gates...
...of Michigan, $9...
...Nixon’s Good Deed: Welfare Reform...
...Charterhouse, $12.95...
...Fred C. Allvine, James M. Patterson...
...An adapted excerpt appears in this issue of The Washington Monthly...
...Univ...
...The Palace Guard...
...The Drive for Power...
...Regnery, $7.95...
...Lexington...
...An important thinker grapples with important themes, but the result is disappointing in its vagueness...
...On Doing Time...
...There are a few nice bits about Harold Geneen, Dita Beard, and Rep...
...While this is a welcome antodote to the indulgent enthusiasm of the post-industrial society 1 advocates, one wonders why he needed an entire book to tell us this less than astonishing news, whena good magazine article, as the New Yorker condensation of his book shows, would do the job better...
...Vincent J. and Vee Burke...
...Dutton, $8.95...
...Progressivism in America...
...Ervin Laszlo...
...No Final Victories: A Life in Politics from John F. Kennedy to Water te...
...Shaping the News: How the Media Function in Today’s World...
...Black Neighborhoods: An Assessment of Community Power...
...is a well-done restatement of the age-old leftist dream-most prominently and repeatedly expressed by Michael Harrington and the self-styled “democratic left”-that the working class can lead the revolution...
...Th,e Washington Game...
...The Real America: A Surprising Examination of the State of the Union...
...M. L. Stein...
...Up Against Daley...
...who comdained that ally guaranteed income program as Daniel Moynihan did in his The Politics of a Guaranteed Income...
...Houghton Mifflin, $8.95...
...A straight-forward account of the nes in ;exarch and shallowness in &ought a attempt to institute a guaranteed income to keep him from doing the cons&tently through Nixon’s family assistance plan...
...Lawrence S. Wittner...
...The Screwing of the Average Man...
...Harper & Row, $10...
...But mixed in are a few astute observations such as Hess’s notion that the need to produce a vast number of position papers in a presidential campaign creates “a sort of Gresham’s Law: the peripheral tends to push out what is the central, and nothing gets very much attention...
...Lyle Stuart, $7.95...
...On High Steel: The Education of an Ironworker...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...Charles H. Levine...
...New Viewpoints, $9.95/4.95...
...The book tells us far more about the values of Winter-Berger and his publisher, Lyle Stuart, than it does about Ford...
...Praeger, $12.50...
Vol. 6 • October 1974 • No. 8
