Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes America’s Oil Famine: How It Ha pened and When It Will End. Ruth &eldon Knowles. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $8.95. The Best Defense. Joel Moldovsky , Rose de Wolf....
...of California, $3.85...
...Jo Freeman...
...The Professors...
...Beacon, $8.95...
...Dutton, $9.50...
...Macmillan, $7.95...
...Stein &Day, $8.95...
...Resignation in Protest...
...Times, $7.95...
...Martin’s, $7.95...
...Jails: The Ultimate Ghetto...
...Sar A. Levitan, William B. Johnston, Robert Taggart...
...Clout: Mayor Daley and His City...
...Maurice Halperin...
...Shana Alexander’s State by State Guide to Women’s Le a1 Rights...
...McGraw-Hill, $10...
...Walter M. Rosenbaum...
...Shahram Chubin, Sepehr Zabih...
...Daniel Rapoport...
...A detailed look at the Big Boss and his rise in the gritty world of Chicago politics, filled with new information about the Daley of the 70s...
...Sidney Fine...
...And it’s not nearly as much fun to read...
...Joseph S. Slavet, et...
...Anchor, $7.95...
...Hawthorn, $7.95...
...Crane, Russak, $4.9512.95...
...Univ...
...Terence Ekndixson...
...Play It to a Bust: The Super Cops...
...Leroy D. Clark...
...Woht onecr ak, $12.95/5.95...
...Harper & Row, $7.95...
...Human Being and Citizen: Essays on Virtue, Freedom and the Common Good George Anastaplo...
...The Peking Bomb: The Psychochemical War Against America...
...Charterhouse, $9.95...
...David Melton...
...Vital Si s, USA...
...Edward Hyams...
...Herbert Livesey...
...Ronald Radosh...
...Oil, Politics and Seapower: The Indian Ocean Vortex...
...Adie...
...Praeger, $10/3.95...
...Charles Rembar...
...The Myth of the Jewish Race...
...Len O’Connor...
...Improving the Legal Process: Effects of Alternatives...
...The Rise and Decline of Fidel Castro: An Essay in Contemporary History...
...No More School...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...of California, $17.50...
...Utuv...
...This data-filled look at citizen attitudes toward their governments concludes that a polarized and distrustful people makes for an unstable government...
...City People...
...Socialization to Old Age...
...Sharing the Children...
...Yale Univ., $15...
...W.A.C...
...Anchor, $10...
...Inside the House...
...The Grand Jury: The Use and Misuse of Political Power...
...A well-intentioned look at the pitfalls of modern education, severely hindered by its simplistic tone...
...White House Witness 1942-1945...
...David Cortright...
...Simon & Schuster, $9.95...
...of Chicago, $12.50...
...Albert N. Keim...
...John Fisher...
...Soldiers in Revolt: The American Military Today...
...Stuart S. Nagel...
...Quadrangle/ N.Y...
...pr niv...
...Finis Farr...
...Praeger, $7.50...
...Jonathan Daniels...
...Ronald Goldfarb...
...As a result, he reports on the progress of regional planning councils in Jacksonville, Minneapolis-St...
...Dave %ellinger...
...Compulsory Education and the Amish: The Right Not to Be Modern...
...Regnery, $10...
...The Political South in the Twentieth Cen hry...
...Edward Weisband, Thomas M. Franck...
...Harper and Row, $d .9 5. The author of Harper’s “Easy Chair” column takes a look around the country at new forms of local governmentand he likes what he sees...
...Thomas Reilly, Michael Sigall...
...Gerd Hamburger...
...Dave Greenberg...
...But he lets the inept House doves get away too easily, and his general reform suggestionsan eight-year limit on terms and no fringe beqefits-are not overwhelming in their originality and persuasiveness...
...A veteran Up1 reporter takes a warm, intelligent, and readable look at the House of Representatives and the folkways of life on the Hill...
...Paul, and Georgia without explaining why they worked...
...Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process...
...Light on analysis but frequently illuminating about this profession’s subculture...
...The Foreign Relations of Iran: A Develo ing State in a Zone of Great Power Con B ict...
...Alton Frye...
...McKay, $8.95/4.95...
...Nora Harlow...
...A thoughtful, perceptive, and scholarly look at the career costs of putting yourself on the line...
...The Fluoride Question...
...Political Culture...
...Irving Rosow...
...Univ...
...Still A Dream: The Changing Status of Blacks Since 1960...
...Macmillan, $7.95...
...Paul M. Sniderman...
...Penguin, $2.50...
...Indiana, $7.95...
...Scribner’s, $1 0/3.95...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...An anecdotal tour of academia, centering on several long profiles of professors famous (Martin Duberinan, Howard Zinn) and obscure...
...His vision, however, is limited by his reliance on official sources...
...More Power Than We Know: The Peo le’s Movement Toward Democracy...
...Univ...
...Mediacracy: American Parties and Politics in the Communications Age...
...Lexington...
...Shana Alexander...
...Crowell, $7.95...
...Lhiv...
...Frank Murphy: The Detroit Years...
...The Politics of Women’s Liberation: A Case Study of an Emerging Social Movement and Its Relation to the Policy Process...
...Luce, $8.95...
...Monroe Lee Billington...
...Arlington House, $8.95...
...His credibility dissolves in effusive praise for inefficient white elephants like New York’s Urban Development Corporation and the Appalachian Regional Council...
...Without Wheels: Alternatives to the Private Car...
...Kevin P. Phillips...
...Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism...
...of California, $8.95...
...Grossman, $8.95...
...Fair Enough: The Life of Westbrook Pegler...
...Financin State-Local Services: A New Stratfor &eater Equity...
...New Patterns in American Politics...
...But in perception of the Mayor’s character, it adds nothing to Mike Royko’s classic study...
...Harvard, $15...
...Robert Cover...
...Burn the Schools-Save the Children...
...When he examines why the House failed to stop the Vietnam war, he makes an important contribution by highlighting the kind of thing outsiders seldom appreciate-the role of a staff member, Armed Services counsel Russell Blandford...
...Arbor House, $8.95...
...Two of his best chapters are profiles of Benjamin Rosenthal and F. Edward Hebert...
...Anne-Lise Gotzsche...
...Anchor, $9.95...
...of California, $13.75...
...Howard S. Rowland...
...Swallow, $10...
...of Michigan, $20...
...Perspective...
...Jack Nichols...
...Robert R. Alford...
...Men’s Liberation: A New Definition of Masculinity...
...Case studies of Zaire and Italy provide life to a book that is otherwise overburdened with charts...
...Barbara Lamont...
...Scribners, $12.90...
...YLexington...
...Terrorists and Terrorism...
...Ra hael Patai, Jennifer P. Wing...
...Personality and Democratic Politics...
...A Responsible Congress: The Politics of National Security...
...Follett, $7.95...
...Health Care Politics: Ideological and Interest Grou Barriers to Reform...
Vol. 7 • April 1975 • No. 2
