Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes The Awkward Embrace: The Creative Artist and the Institutions in America. Joan Simpson Burns. Knopf, $15. The Brain Bank of America: An Inquiry into the Politics of...
...Like Bill Safire's recent book, it proves that all those guys weren't as bad as their bosses...
...Philip M. Boffey...
...Mergers: Motives, Effects, Policies...
...Univ...
...multinational corporations, and a disheartening denouement of the double-talk with which Henry Kissinger sought to cloak his actions...
...Crime Pays...
...Simon & Schuster...
...Christopher T. Rand...
...George W. Ball, ed...
...oil companies last year, demonstrates a thorough knowledge of American foreign investment and the united struggle of the federal government and the oil majors to maintain control of energy abroad...
...Laws Against Marijuana: The Price We Pay...
...Much of the author's rage is directed at the pro-industry U. S. Forest Service and a barbaric practice known as "clearcutting" that has wiped out all vegetation and trees in thousands of square miles of public forests...
...Weybright & Talley, $14.95...
...The case he makes is powerful...
...Monthly Review, $10.95...
...The Forest Killers: The Destruction of the American Wilderness...
...Exhibitng an affection for linguistic theories that few readers are likely to share, Bell nonetheless describes a number of intriguing concepts (such as the use and interpretation of silence in political communities) and offers a surprising amount of how-to information...
...McKay, $8.9513.95...
...The New Guide to the Religions in America: Ferment and Faith in an Age of Crisis...
...Thurston Clarke, John J. Tigue, Jf...
...David V. J. Bell...
...Peter 0. Steiner...
...Susan Stern...
...Bob Considine...
...In Command of Tomorrow: Resource and Environmental Strategies for Americans...
...The Reaffirmation of Republicanism: Eisenhower and the Eighty-Third Congress...
...James W. Canan...
...Thomas Plate...
...Dirty Money: Swiss Banks, Watergate, the Mafia, Money Laundering and White Collar Crime...
...Literally, your bark is your bite...
...Chilton, $7.95...
...If you can fight your way through the deadening jargon, you’ll find that the authors deliver a sohd discussion of the reasoning behind U. S. involvement in the Allende overthrow, sharp pictures of the maneuvering by U .S...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $7.95...
...The Brain Bank of America: An Inquiry into the Politics of Science...
...His acquiescence in programs like social security and limited public housing reflected political inevitability by the 1950s, not the triumph of a ‘moderate’ or ‘liberal’ wing w i t h the Republican party...
...Weybright & Talley, $12.50...
...of Illinois, $10...
...Rand calls the oil industry “far too powerful, too isolated, and too unaccountable to have become another typical American myfitocracy...
...Morrow, $6.95...
...The Story of the Jewish Defense League...
...William and Joanna Woolfolk...
...Philip Nobile...
...Leo Rosten, ed...
...This book is about "the National Academy of Sciences, the nation's most prestigious scientific organization...
...Ironically, it is Bell’s awkwardness of expression (confessed as “academic prose”) that will first alienate readers intrigued by the book’s title...
...of Tennessee Press, $14.95...
...Thinking About Crime...
...Random House, $6.95...
...Nora Ephron...
...He documents his case in chapters on the SST, disposal of radioactive waste, deflation, food additives, and pesticides...
...The Theory and Practice of Professional Crime in the United States...
...The United States and Chile: Imperialism and the Overthrow of the Allende Government...
...Jack Shepherd...
...The Game of Business...
...John J. Fried...
...The Elusive Peace in the Middle East...
...Simon & Schuster, $9.95...
...The Pieces of the Frame...
...The industry's demand for even more land is especially galling in light of the failure to re-forest or use efficiently the trees that have already been cut...
...Harper & Row, $12.50...
...He urges regulation and licensing, and warns, “Afiy other course of action will further debase the quality of justice and law enforcement and alienate from society many of its most valuable constituents...
...Human Jurisprudence: Public Law as Political Science...
...The Great Detente Disaster: Oil and the Decline of Ameriqm Foreign Policy...
...William A. Rusher...
...The author describes cancer diagnosis and treatment as the jealously guarded province of less-than-expert doctors committed to the territorial imperatives of their individual specialties...
...The author concludes Eisenhower deserves only the latter: “Very conservative in fiscal affairs8and devoted to the principle of local responsibility in power and re source development , President E ise nhower acquiesced in certain New Deal programs but did nothing to expand on them, and he remained philosophically opposed to much of the spirit of both the New and Fair Deals...
...With unrelenting seriousness, Bell sets out to show the myriad ways “politics is talk...
...Gary W. Reichard...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $8.95...
...The Academy, which operates from marble headquarters facing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was created by an Act of Congress in 1863 to serve as an official adviser to the federal government...
...Rand says that it is sheer myth that U. S. oil companies were caught by surprise in the 1973 oil embargo, and that they in fact used the embargo to supreme advantage...
...It also acts as an exclusive, self-perpetuating honor society, which each year elects a limited number of scientists to membership in recognition of their outstanding...
...King Cancer: The Good, the Bad, and the Cure of Cancer...
...Dial, $8.95...
...Although this book tells you more about the lumber industry than you'd ever want to know, it does a thorough job of muckraking, detailing the destruction of our forests...
...Univ...
...The Superwarriors: The Fantastic World of Pentagon Superweapons...
...Boffey is a fine reporter...
...Johns Hopkins, $7.95...
...Univ...
...of Michigan, $12.50...
...The book, spiced with vignettes of frantic victims desperately searching for cures, offers readers an informative survey of various treatments...
...With the Weathermen: The Personal Journal of a Revolutionary Woman...
...Basic, $10,95...
...The United States: A Study of a Developing Country...
...Atlantic Monthly Press, $10...
...Saturday Review Press, $7.95...
...Edward Friedland, Paul Seabury, Aaron Wildavsky...
...Power, Influence and Authority...
...Dick Corneulle...
...Midge Decter...
...An often amusing and illuminating guide to the tricks of the corporate and political PR man by Spiro Agnew's former press secretary...
...of New York Press, $14.95/6.95...
...Sheed &Ward, $6.95...
...James Q. Wilson...
...Vic Gold...
...Glendon Schubert...
...The Making of the New Majority Party...
...Simon & Schuster, $8.95...
...U nfortuna tely, this high-priced volume, crammed with dry facts, is unlikely to have much of an impact...
...Rx for Riches: The Remarkable Life of Dr...
...A convincing indictment of our antiquated and self-defeating laws against marijuana...
...Global Companies: The Political Economy of World Business...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Arthur D. Hellman...
...An historical analysis of Eisenhower’s first term, relying heavily on quantitative techniques to determine whether Eisenhower could be credited with having “renovated” or simply “reaffirmed” Republicanism...
...Although Hellman, a lawyer, believes existing marijuana statutes undermine the dignity of the law, his focus is not their morality, nor even their medical validity (resolution of that debate almost invariably depends on who is doing the research), but their poor cost-benefit ratio...
...Knopf, $6.95...
...Making Democracy Safe for Oil: Oilmen and the Islamic East...
...Citing the millions of dollars spent on surveillance, undercover work, border patrols, and crowded court dockets, Hellman demonstrates that the costs of attempting to enforce marijuana laws far exceed benefits gained...
...The oil industry could still minister the needs of the American consumer and operate at a profit...
...De-managing America: The Final Revolution...
...His major warning: Don't trust your family physician or local hospital-only a handful of cancer centers provide top-quality diagnosis and care...
...Sheed & Ward...
...John McDonald...
...McGraw-Hill, $10.95...
...Roy A Medvedev...
...America still receives, in mid-1974, over 80 per cent of its crude oil and refined products from North America and Venezuela...
...I Don't Need You When I'm Right: The Confessions of a Washington PR Man...
...of Hawaii Press, $15...
...Spectrum, $8.95/$2.95...
...Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women...
...Their power, the author tells us, is all too often used in behalf of the special interests...
...Be goes on to say that were American interests totally banished from the Moslem world-or indeed from everywhere outside North America-the American oil industry could still function smoothly...
...On Socialist Democracy...
...The Great American Birth Rite...
...Rabbi Meir Kahane...
...But the unhappy truth is that they were bad enough to work for their bosses-not for an innocent couple of months, but for years...
...o rigi na:l scientific w.ork...
...Basic, $7.95...
...Oxford, $6.95...
...Ira Sharkansky...
...Liberal Parents, Radical Children...
...But the book is woefully short of analysis on the progress of cancer research and marred by an unnecessarily flippant tone: "Cancer, if it wants you badly enough, and it does, can get you almost anYWhere...
...Sterling Brubaker...
...Univ...
...What will secondly alienate all but the politically naive is the energy with which Bell belabors the obvious as soon as he departs the world of abstraction for the world of political history (the “Nixonese” of Watergate and Vietnam...
...John McPhee...
...James Petras, Morris Morley...
...Doubleday, $15...
...Malcolm H. Kerr, ed...
...The Vitamin Conspiracy...
...Armand Hammer...
...Knopf, $12.50...
...This analysis of American oil policy in the Middle East, from the CIA-backed overthrow of Mosaddegh in August 1953 to the record profit-making of U.S...
...An often casual but comprehensible examination of a gruesome subject...
...State Univ...
Vol. 7 • June 1975 • No. 4
