Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes Agricultural Research and Productivity. Robert E. Evenson, Yoav Kislev. Yale, $12.5013.95. The Beat Inflation Strategy. Roger Klein, William Wolman. Simon & Schuster,...
...Lambro, a reporter for United Press International, points out that federal, state, and local taxes, which together consumed 20 per cent of total income in 1940, today account for 40 per cent...
...When the authors do communicate their first-hand observations on these facets of daily life, the book is at its best...
...of California Press, $10...
...Tony Sciacca...
...Armand Hammer...
...Peroff: The Man Who Knew TOO Much...
...Donald Lambro...
...when it is falling, bonds and common stock...
...The authors, investment analysts, explain economic principles rather than oversimplifying them...
...Frank Mankiewicz, Kirby Jones...
...Thomas W. Ryley...
...Still, it has value as a compendium of the evidence...
...Career of a Radical Rightist: A Study in Failure...
...Scott G. McNall...
...Arbor House, $7.95...
...He also recommends greatly expanded programs of revenue sharing, which would give the states more power to act without making them bear the responsibility of raising their own taxes...
...The Remarkable Life of Dr...
...The Federal Rathole...
...Although the literature of despoliation has reached numbing and often boring proportions, this is one book that retains the capacity to shock...
...A Little Group of Willful Men: A Study of Congressional/Presidential Authority...
...Avon, $L75...
...Gerald Pomper...
...We learn that he likes daiquiris tall and cool, but not whether he is married or goes out at all...
...The Educated Woman: Prospects and Problems...
...A dull tale of the experiences which led Connecticut’s first commissioner of environmental protection to conclude that federal power should be curtailed and shifted to the states...
...Lexington...
...They visited Cuba thrke times, twice in 1974 and once in 1975...
...Lewis Regenstein...
...Essays and notes by Joseph P. Lash...
...Roy A. Medvedev...
...Press, $9.95...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $6.95...
...Federal Programs and City Politics...
...When the inflation rate is rising, they recommend commodities and other tangible assets...
...With the type of psychological insight that he has demonstrated in his previous works, Lash traces the effects of Frankfurter’s immigrant upbringing, his domineering mother, his sheer delight in moving in the highest circles of power, and the ever-present awareness of his Semitism...
...From an unlikely source, the right-wing publishing house whose books sometimes have the same reasonable tone as the SDS pamphlets of yesteryear, comes one of the more stimulating political books of the year...
...E. Carrington Boggan, et...
...The Law of War...
...Morrow, $995...
...political and economic system, what do you think is in store for the future...
...Alfred Steinberg...
...Macmillan...
...Richard I. Miller...
...Scribner’s, $15...
...Emilio C. Viano, Jeffrey H. Reiman, eds...
...As a step in the other direction, he proposes elimination of 50 federal programs, for a total savings of $25 billion...
...Bob Considine...
...But the sense of belonging to a piece of that continent labeled Maine or Illinois goes as deep, or deeper...
...Few of her insights are novel...
...Marvin Belsky, M.D...
...Many Sovereign States...
...Cornell Univ...
...The authors’ lack of imagination is demonstrated in their chapter on important people in town, which starts with the President and works down the government-organization chart to the agency heads, without considering any of the unofficial forces-in lobbying, the law, and the press-who shape the life of the city...
...Federalism and Clear Waters: The 1972 Water Pollution Control Act...
...Simon & Schuster, $7.95...
...Voter’s Choice: Varieties of American Electoral Behavior...
...Although he points out, correctly, the corruption and inflexibility of the federal government, he generalizes too broadly about the improved quality of government at the state level, a conclusion which recent evidence from Maryland, New Jersey, and Florida, among others, causes one to doubt...
...But all in all his recommendations are well argued and soundly documented, and provide a reminder that some of the things that “need to be done” don’t need to be done by the federal government...
...L. H. Whitternore...
...The Politics of Extinction: The Shocking Story of the World’s Endangered Wildlife...
...Harper & Row, $12.95...
...Jean Bernard...
...Edwin Mills, Wallace Oates, eds...
...Austin Kiplinger and Knight A. Kiplinger...
...Laurence s. Seidman, Lexington...
...The Rights of Gays: An American Civil Liberties Union Handbook...
...Fiscal Zoning and Land Use Controls...
...With Fidel: A Portrait of Castro and Cuba...
...Dodd, Mead, $10...
...Foster Furcolo...
...Lexington...
...The Politics of the Property Tax...
...Acropolis, $7.9513.50...
...Gary Hoenig...
...Gil Carl AlRoy...
...Arthur and Knight Kiplinger (of Kiplinger Letter renown) have compiled a massive and simplistic encyclopedia on Washington, D.C...
...Behind the Middle East Conflict...
...Lexngton...
...We can sing ‘My Country ’tis of Thee.’ We can even fight and die for the United States...
...Norton, $12.50...
...Lexington...
...Worth reading, if only for the introductory essay by Lash, which follows Frankfurter’s meteoric rise from the Lower East Side to the Court...
...Arlington House, $7.95...
...Now and then those who disagree with Lambro’s ideology will question his recomrnenda tions- for example, blanket elimination of legal services, his hostility toward research of all sorts, and the absence of any reduction in military weaponry...
...Polish-American Politics in Chicago, 18881940...
...Law for You...
...Revolution in Cuba...
...The Case Against Direct Election of the President: A -Defense of the Electoral College...
...At a time when more than 20 groups were trying to arrange an audience with Fidel Castro, Mankiewicz and Jones were granted exclusive rights to the first American interview, as well as a guided tour of the island...
...Vital Signs: A Doctor Examines His Profession...
...Harvey Lieber...
...Saturday Review Press, $7.95...
...It is not...
...Hawthorn, $15...
...Michael LaVelle...
...The authors kept feeding Castro unimaginative questions (“Looking at the U.S...
...They contend that inflation will be a permanent feature of the American economy, and that by learning to foresee the predictable stages of the inflationary cycle, the investor can come out ahead...
...Harper & Row...
...The book’s style, often dissertation-like in its dryness, will also deter the casual reader...
...Reaper: The Inside Story of a Gang Leader...
...Playboy, $8.95...
...most of the others are a few million apiece...
...Weybright & Talley , !15 . On Socialist Democracy...
...Pinnacle, $1.75...
...Diane B. Paul...
...Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry...
...of Chicago, $12.95...
...It is filled with insights such as: “The states are rooted deep in the American consciousness...
...The Police in Society...
...Scribner’s, $7.95...
...Given the magnitude of their scoop, one would have thought that the book would be terrifically interesting and informative...
...Luciano: The Man Who Modernized the American Mafia...
...Lexington...
...Herbert Matthew...
...Most interesting is Lash’s explanation of how Frankfurter shifted from activism off the Court to a Holmesian reluctance while on the Court...
...Macmillan, $8.95...
...The author, a vice president of the Fund for Animals, describes not only the natural history of endangered species from the grizzly bear to the kangaroo, but also the political background in Congress and the executive branch that has thwarted efforts at preservation...
...Kennikat, $12.50...
...Knopf, $12.50...
...Univ...
...For those who thought there was no method to the madness of the electoral college, Judith Best has pulled together all the statements that can be made on its behalf...
...Sam Rayburn: A Biography...
...the answers to which could have been found in any socialist primer...
...Red, White and Blue-Collar Views: A Steelworker Speaks His Mind About America...
...The Design of Federal Employment Programs...
...Most of them are comparativeadvantage arguments against the direct election system, the only reform with a chance of being adopted...
...The letters themselves are largely gossipy...
...Dan Lufkin...
...A hybrid cross between a high-school government text and a local travel guide, this 450-page volume simplifies the most complex of issues-two brief pages, for instance, devoted to a homily on “how Watergate could have happened...
...On other areas of interest-the life of the Cuban people, their standards of living-we do not get enough...
...McKay, $7.75...
...While written in a breezy, Parade magazine style (“There are several paths to the heart and pocketbook of Ivan, that proud and some times perverse Communist”), this biography of the grand entrepreneur of the modern era is quite thoroughly researched and generally entertaining...
...The largest single reduction would come from the revenue-sharing program, at $16 billion...
...Univ...
...Fidel is portrayed as the ideal composite of lion and lamb, known by all, loved by all, not isolated by the power of his office...
...Edward R. Kantowitz...
...The most sensible of the recent spate of economic how- t 0-survive guides, relying neither on Harry Browne’s Social Darwinism nor on the on-track gimmickry of the goldbugs...
...From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter...
...and, because she fails to deal convincingly with the main defect of the electoral college- the unequal weights it assigns to voters in different states-she is unlikely to change many minds...
...Putnam’s, $7.95...
...Jeffrey L. Pressman...
...Kennikat, $12.95...
...Washington Now...
...N.Y.S.E.: A History of The New York Stock Exchan e. Robert Sobel...
...Judith Best...
...How to Choose and Use Your Doctor...
...Ironically, the book’s main effect is to whet one’s appetite for a more thoughtful examination of the Armand Hammer story...
Vol. 7 • July 1975 • No. 5
