POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in November. America After Nixon. Robert Scheer. McGraw-Hill. The title is a come-on-the book is really motivated by Scheer’s...
...Herblock Special Report...
...Martin H. Seiden...
...Delacorte, $8.95...
...Harper &Row, $12.50...
...The book is based on a doctoral dissertation, and reinforces the belief that the average thesis shouldn’t be published...
...An entertaining account of life at Ramparts by its former editor...
...A valuable antidote to the Udal1 book noted below...
...Lewis Merklin, Jr., M.D...
...Putnam’s, $8.95...
...a more international form of government...
...Joan Jose h Levy, Gerald Leinwald, eds...
...Professors and Other Inmates...
...Basic...
...This collection is for people who haven’t kept up with the radical press in recent years...
...William Manchester...
...An earnest effort to...
...The Corporate Conscience...
...The Energy Balloon...
...The Politics of Revenue Sharing...
...Erwin C. Hargrove...
...The author underestimates the virtues but certainly not the sins of entrepreneurship...
...Ralph Blumenfeld...
...Norton, 7.95...
...R. B. Luce, $7.95...
...Sex and Power in History...
...Second, we contrast these assumptions against current experience and newly acquired insights to see if they fit...
...The author’s usual amusing comments about corporate culture are accompanied by this important, if unfashionable, insight: “Any reconciliation...
...The Common Millionaire: And How to Get That Way...
...Du Pont: Behind the Nylon Curtain...
...The author credits State Department influence in Latin American affairs for the earlier, more moderate decision, and Treasury-State bickering for the new policy...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in November...
...Stewart Udall, Charles N. Conconi, David E. Osterhout...
...The Roots of American Order...
...Edwin M. Schur, Hugo Bedau...
...This is a good book about a crucially important subject...
...Abraham H. Lass...
...Alfred A. Knopf...
...Udall et al...
...Questions and Answers About Gettin Into College...
...Chuck Colson is the prime target of many of the articles as, among other things, the alleged mastermind of an attempted paramilitary coup and of the Wallace shooting...
...Expropriation Politics...
...David F. Lmowes...
...Hawthorn...
...Gerard Colby Zag...
...The fact that not everyone may share the same vision or that it will threaten the vital interests of many important groups is conveniently brushed over...
...Just Between Us Blacks...
...The Politics of Cit Revenue...
...of CJfornia, $2.85...
...Amaury de Riencourt...
...Arnold J. Meltsner...
...Warren Hinckle...
...Ramparts,‘$lO.OO, $3.45...
...Unfortunately, however, the author is partial to this kind of prose: “First we identify the assumptions that characterize our interaction with the orga~zation system...
...It is really a sweet, optimistic view of the future, where the corporations serve the public good, everyone rides bicycles, and people live in wonderful, close-knit communities...
...C. Northcote Parkinson...
...With varying degrees of credibility, the authors attempt to show that Nixon was tied to Mafia hoodlums, corporate swindlers and low-life snoopers...
...The Power of the Modern Presidency...
...Little, Brown, $9.95...
...heve beissman, ed...
...Robert Heller...
...Little, Brown, $20...
...Prentice-Hall, $6.95, $2.45...
...McGrawHill, $7.95...
...The turf-protecting motivations of government officials are examined closely, without the faintest indication that the author is writing about human beings...
...Random House, $5.95...
...Leonard W. Levy...
...Henry Kissinger: The Private and Public Story...
...If they do, we can validate our existing picture of reality...
...The title is a come-on-the book is really motivated by Scheer’s passionate hatred of the multinational corporations...
...Univ...
...don’t spend much time telling us how to bring this about...
...E. Howard Hunt...
...If You Have a Lemon Make Lemonade...
...Gaylin is a psychoanalyst who interviewed several dozen judges for this book...
...Student X. Arlington House, $7.95...
...muel A. Curbert...
...The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972...
...Partial Justice...
...The resulting “SocioEconomic Operating Statement” seems ridiculous at times, but it is nevertheless a first step in a journey that corporations must undertake...
...Basic...
...There are all kinds of insufferable problemsa bit of a conspiracy outlook toward the multinational corporations, a fawning view of China, and a picture of the Arabs as brothers of the Third World...
...This is the story of how the rich get that way and stay that way-at the expense of the rest of us...
...Paul R. Dommel...
...Pocket, $.&5...
...His purpose was to understand why punishment for similar crimes varies so dramatically from case to case and court to court...
...Prentice-Hall, $12.95...
...The 0 anization Tra and How to Get Out of It...
...Big Business...
...Victimless Crimes: Two Sides of a Controversy...
...Harper & Row, $8.95...
...Jessica Pernitz Einhorn...
...Instead of the beautiful world of bicycles and homegrown vegetables, he tells us that there are many powerful men and institutions with a great stake in preserving their power, and that they will not shirk from destroying us all rather than relinquish their profits and growth...
...Open Court, $15...
...Beacon Press, 8 9 5 , $1.95...
...The government’s failure to invoke sanctions against Peru in 1969 is contrasted with a new get-tough stance in 1972...
...How Much for Health...
...Mandatory Motherhood: The True Meaning of “Ri t to Life...
...of big business and government can take only one form...
...But with all his faults, Scheer sees something many proponents of the new age of scarcity don’t...
...Garrett Hardin...
...Political Corruption: Prelude to Watergate...
...A tedious study of bureaucratic infighting over U. S. policy on overseas expropriations...
...Russell Kirk...
...Warren G. Magnuson, Elliot A. Segal...
...Who Controls the Mass Media...
...They Chose Honor...
...work out some sort of social audit of corporate affairs...
...Willard Gaylin...
...Big Brother and the Holdin Com any: The World Behind Watergate...
...Herbert Block...
...Putnam’s, $8.95...
...Indiana Univ., $8.50...
...Lexington...
...An absorbing, often even exciting, account of the last 40 years marred-in the galleys at least-by too many errors of fact...
...It is enough, they seem to say, to paint a pretty picture of the new world...
...New American Library, $1.75...
...Against the Law...
...The book is level-headed and insightful, and highlights the shot-in-the-dark nature of most judges’ sentencing philosophy...
...Temple Univ., $10...
...Carl T. Rowan...
...Don’t be put off by all the toughguy talk at the beginning of this book...
...McKay, $12.95...
...All we need to do to bring this state into being is to realize that the energy crisis is real and to recreate our society to take into account that new fact...
...Pocket, $1.85...
...Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent...
Vol. 6 • November 1974 • No. 9
