POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in January America's Moment: 1918—American Diplomacy at the End of World War I. Arthur Walworth. Norton, $14.95. Assassination in...
...Paul S. Meskil...
...Pantheon, $10/$3.95...
...The Pleasant Avenue Connection...
...return frorn studying a Mexican village, decided to interview managers of new technological corporations...
...and gamesmen, the dominant new type, who love challenge and change...
...Or he may simply need to return to the case studies of the class book that grounded in reality the abstractions that here multiply unsullied by example...
...Blye, Private Eye: The Real World of the Private Detective...
...Atheneum, $7.95...
...Emanuel Tanay, M.D...
...Playboy, $8.95...
...Harper & Row, $10...
...Avon, $1.50...
...Oxford, $19.95/$5.95...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $8.95...
...Nicholas Pileggi...
...The corporate/technological companies Maccoby describes are peopled by four personality types: craftsmen, who get an old-style pleasure from plying, their trade well...
...The Rights of Students...
...They Call It Justice: Command Influence and the Court-Martial System...
...The companies he studied are products of the 1960s and are not the dominant institutions in, American business...
...Knopf, $17.95...
...Frederick J. Hacker, M.D...
...James McKinley...
...The Superfluous Men: Conservative Critics of American Culture...
...An interesting account of the first year of the Roosevelt Administration by one of its brighter architects, who does no more than a human amount of special pleading for his own causes...
...Richard Sennett...
...Still, the urge to revise the picture of American business as staid and immobile is a noble and necessary one...
...An important book about the growth industry of the seventies —terrorism...
...John M. Blair...
...Norton, $9.95...
...company men, who are loyal, unimaginative, and security-seeking...
...The co-author of the excellent Hidden Injuries of Class has written a book about the narcissism of our time that consistently borders on the brilliant...
...David Durk, Ira Silverman, Arlene Durk...
...Jacque Srouji...
...Roosevelt's Revolution...
...Robert M. Crunden, ed...
...David Hapgood...
...Richard Lowenthal...
...Kai T. Erikson...
...Ben Heirs, Gordon Pehrson...
...Michael Maccoby is a psychoanalyst who, on his...
...John Turner...
...Macmillan, $14.95...
...Army, West is dubious about the quality of justice in the military...
...He brought his anthropological, visitor-to-a-strangeworld approach pretty intact to big business, and has described a particular culture with great interest and detachment and practically no academic anti-business animus...
...The author oversimplifies the American part of the story, but her book is disturbing nonetheless...
...Simon and Schuster, $8.95...
...The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism...
...Sennett may need a demanding editor to challenge him to profluce on his promise...
...I Should Have Died...
...A collection of perceptive essays by the editor of Society...
...Philip Deane...
...The Mind of the Organization...
...The Fall of Public Man...
...The Control of Oil...
...Unfortunately they never arrive...
...Aurora, $10.95...
...Model or Ally?: The Communist Powers and the Developing Countries...
...Allan Chase...
...it is a world that is obviously more dynamic than the critics of the 50s would have had us believe...
...Martin and Duane Ackerman...
...He traces the history of court-martial proceedings...
...An excerpt appeared in the Special Health Section of the October issue of The Washington Monthly...
...jungle fighters, who spend their time arranging their own Darwinian rise...
...Harper & Row, $10...
...Luther C. West...
...Harper & Row, $8.95...
...Ideology and Utopia in the U.S...
...Crusaders, Criminals, Crazies: Terror and Terrorism in Our Time...
...Harper & Row, $8.95...
...The Game of Disarmament...
...Twenty years a lawyer in the U.S...
...Why the United States and Russia have done so little to control the arms race...
...A worthy but dull attempt to explore the conservative caveats that should guide liberalism and socialism...
...Assassination in America...
...Michael Maccoby...
...The theory is that the famous bureaucratic Organization Man of the 50s has been replaced by a more aggressive, competitive successor—which sounds good, but behind his aura of success the gamesman is often personally unhappy...
...Peter Clecak...
...Money, Ego, Power: A Manual for Would-Be Wheeler-Dealers...
...The Luparelli Tapes: The True Story of the Mafia Hitman Who Contracted to Kill Both Joey Gallo and His Own Wife...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...The Murderers...
...Pantheon, $15...
...Playboy, $8.95...
...Rexford G. Tugwell...
...Knopf, $15...
...Univ...
...Every page is good enough to make you think devastating -insights are on their way...
...The author may not be tough enough, but he's extremely thoughtful and well worth your attention...
...Pantheon, $15...
...Alva . Myrdal...
...Everything In Its Path...
...Critical Mass: Nuclear Power, the Alternative to.Energy Famine...
...ACLU...
...Crooked Paths: Reflections on Socialism, Conservatism, and the Welfare State...
...Oxford, $12.95...
...1956-1976...
...The Average Man Strikes Back...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in January America's Moment: 1918—American Diplomacy at the End of World War I. Arthur Walworth...
...Housing ley People: Toward Autonomy in Building Environments...
...Playboy Press, $8.95...
...Simon & Schuster, $7.95...
...of Texas, $14.95...
...Viking, $10...
...The Gamesman: The New Corporate Leaders...
...Irving Louis Horowitz...
...Maccoby has made a convincing case, but one wonders how dominant his gamesmen really are...
Vol. 8 • January 1977 • No. 11
