POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in March. The Border South States. Neal R. Peirce. Norton, $12.95. A worthy addition to Peirce’s multi-volume survey of the...
...Walter Trohan, Doubleday, $10...
...Viking...
...Random House, $1 5/$.95...
...Barker...
...Johns Hopkins, $15...
...Universe, $8.95...
...Scribner’s, ~ $7.9512.95...
...Mark Green...
...Scribner’s, $12.50...
...Paul R. Abramson...
...He is right but too often his fear that he will be too “simple-minded or abstract to be suffered by a reader” turns out to be justified...
...Praeger, $11.50/4.95...
...Theodore C. Sorensen...
...A mau-maued flak-catcher provides a flat recitation of his hectic years as a top aide to John Lindsay...
...Yale, $20...
...Milton Friedman...
...Dennis A. Rondinelli...
...A convincing indictment of diplomaism...
...Monthly Review, $8.95...
...A Theory of Conflict...
...and Growth...
...Victor A. Thompson...
...Univ...
...The author spent much of his time running from one confrontation to another, asking blacks and hippies to “cool it...
...Generational Change in American Politics...
...He notes with admiration that one activist “was one of the few men I met in all my years in city government who scared me...
...The West and the Rest of Us...
...The Mayor’s Man...
...He finds that we have become “trapped in a culture of bureaucracy and force...
...George C. Herrin J r . , eds: New ’Viewp:ints, $12.50b195...
...The author provides little in the way of new insights or information...
...Perhaps the most thrilling part of his job was the opportunity to meet some real live Negroes, some of whom allowed him to drink in “after-hours” spots where “the sweet smell of reefer and the sweeter sound of Aretha Franklin floated through the air...
...The Alfred J. du Pont-Columbia University Survey of Broadcast Journalism...
...In a dry but intelligent manner he examines the various solutions for this problem-from ombudsman to sensitivity training to political bosses-and finds them all wanting, plagued with inefficiency or favoritism...
...Marvin Barrett, ed...
...No Place To, Hide: A Guide to Bugs, Wire Taps, Surveillance and Other Privacy Invasions...
...Revolutionaries Without Revolution...
...Martin’s, $7.95...
...The Origins of the Second World War...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Caroline Bird...
...Alan LeMond, Ron Fry...
...His solution: “A fundamental social revolution which dethrones the role of wealth and money and organizes the economy to meet the real needs of all the people...
...The author looks at the dilemma of bureaucracies and their lack of compassion...
...The Case Against College...
...Cornell, $12.50...
...Keesing’s Report...
...There is fun in his memories about Chicago gangsters and Colonel McCormick, but it is too frequently dulled by his leaden comments on the irresponsible liberalism of younger reporters...
...Watchmen in the Night...
...Darwin Payne...
...Indiana Univ., $11.50...
...An adapted excerpt, “A Judge’s Day,” appeared in the February issue of The Washington Monthly...
...Andre Thirion...
...Arnold Offner...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in March...
...The brightest of the free-market theorists has put together a provocative collection of articles, columns, and interviews...
...Michael Tanzer...
...Lois G. Forer...
...A worthy addition to Peirce’s multi-volume survey of the politics of the 50 states...
...Luther J. Carter...
...Lexington, $13.50...
...Anchor, $2.95...
...Holding the Line: The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1961...
...The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr...
...The Death of the Law...
...Barry Gottehrer...
...A reasoned examination of how Watergate has affected the relationship between broadcasters and government that is a bit too respectful of media big-shots...
...MIT, $8.95...
...Mo-ments of Truth...
...The Other Government: The Unseen Influence of Washington Lawyers...
...Without Sympathy or Enthusiasm: The Problem of Administrative Com assion...
...McKay, $10.95...
...of dabarna, $6.5012.95...
...The Man of Only Yesterday: Frederic Lewis Allen...
...Eight Goods and Eight Bads...
...Macmillan, $12.95...
...The Florida Experience: Land and Water Policy in a Growth State...
...Thomas Campbell...
...Prisoners of War...
...Open Court, $9.95/3.95...
...There’s No Such Thing As a Free Lunch...
...Alfred de Grazia...
...The Energ Crisis: World Struggle for Power and Weazh...
...Charles C. Alexander...
...Crowell, $6.9513.50...
...1943-1946...
...The author, who does have a fresh point of view, tries to express it by assuming the role of Chinese philosopher addressing Chinese readers in this essay on the American character...
...Arie E. David...
...Chinweizu...
...Brian Crozier...
...But he frustrates the reader by failing to make any suggestions of his own and by blandly assuring us that we will grow accustomed to administrative impersonality in due time...
...Political Animals: Memoirs of a Sentimental Cynic...
...The danger of the imperial presidency has been such a fashionable thesis that the time is ripe for this counterattack, which, while intelligent, is disappointingly bland...
...Urban and Regional Development Planning: Policy and Administration...
...A conventional left study of energy shortages that pins the blame on profit-hungry oil companies, OPEC, and the United States...
...A retired Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune reminisces about nearly a half century of political coverage...
...An uneven but often brilliant examination of the way “law” is practiced in the District of Columbia...
...Harper & Row, $10...
...The Strategy of Treaty Termination: Lawful Breaches and Retaliations...
...McKay, $9.95...
Vol. 7 • March 1975 • No. 1
