Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes Public affairs books to be published in February Acts of God, Acts of Man. Wesley Marx. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $8.95. America’s Mass Media Merchants. William H. Read....
...Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, $7.95...
...Little, Brown, $12.50...
...Columbia, $12.95...
...An excerpt appeared in the December issue of me Washington Monthly...
...Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood...
...Putnam, $15...
...Pipe Clay and Drill: John J. Pershing, the Classic American Soldier...
...so everyone who bought was really buying the right to sell...
...Nelson Hall, $17.50...
...This is a story of greed and government inaction, told with verve...
...Putnam, $8.95...
...Out of diffidence we turned to him too little, but whenever we did he was an unfailing source of delight, and we will sorely miss him...
...Vintage, $5.95...
...Injustice lor All...
...Morrow, $8.95...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $10.50...
...Grossman, $7.95...
...Morton A. Kaplan...
...Oxford, $10.95...
...It turns out that American media are a major force worldwide, and that the rest of the world is not entirely happy with that state of affairs...
...Putnam, $8.95...
...The collection here is supposed to be very witty, but after the first couple of letters the humor fades and it’s heavy and repetitive going...
...Richard Goldhurst...
...His findings are familiar but well told here: urban murder is concentrated in poor centercity areas, and amazingly often is the result of passionate quarrels between relatives, spouses, or friends who have easy access to guns...
...Over 1,500 distributorships were sold in New York alone, but only 79 of the buyers made over $5,000...
...Peter Lisagor Peter Lisagor was a member of our editorial advisory board from our beginning in 1969 until his death in January...
...Doubleday, $12.50...
...Time-Life, $9.95...
...Russell Warren Howe, Sarah Hays Trott...
...Murder in Space City: A Cultural Analysis of Houston Homicide Patterns...
...This triggered a 15-year correspondence with an eccentric named Nestle J: Frobish, who claimed to be standing up for the rights of frogs...
...Simon & Schuster, $8.95...
...Despite an unfortunate fondness for phrases like “global information elite,” Read makes his case fairly well, if perhaps overestimating the importance of the print media relative to that of movies and television...
...Stein & Day, $10...
...A socialsciencey look at the growth of the leading American mass media into multinational corporations and at their effect on world politics...
...Fair Play for Frogs: The Waldie-Frobish Papers...
...Laurel Shackleford, Bill Weinberg, eds...
...Liberty’s Chosen Home: The Politics of Violence in Boston...
...Pink-Collar Workers: Inside the World of Women's Work...
...If you believe that the United States eagerly leapt into the Cold War, this book is the kind of cold shower you need...
...The Life and Death of the Cold War: Selected Studies in Postwar Statescraft...
...Basic, $14.95...
...The Night Watch: Twenty-five Years of Peculiar Service...
...Gerda Lerner...
...Johns Hopkins, $12.50...
...This is the story of Glenn Turner, who sold people the right to sell a product called Koscot Cosmetics...
...The FTC estimates that throughout the country investors lost $44 million on Koscot...
...Atheneum, $10.95...
...Putnam, $8.95...
...Prelude to War...
...David Atlee Phillips...
...Crowell, $9.95...
...Alvin Rosenfeld...
...The Power Peddlers: How Lobbyists Mold America's Foreign Policy...
...Harry Hopkins: A Biography...
...Our Appalachia: An Oral History...
...Robert T. Elson...
...An excerpt appeared in the January issue of The Washington Monthly...
...Henry H. Adams...
...Louise Kapp Howe...
...The Fiscal Crisis of American Cities: Essays on the Political Economy of Urban America with Special Reference to New York...
...Jerome R. Waldie, Nestle J. Frobish...
...A really good read...
...Alan Lupo...
...Horowitz...
...but while they were being swindled, the FTC did nothing...
...David Mermelstein, Roger Akaly...
...if you sold the right to sell, you could make a few thousand dollars per sale...
...Houghton Mifflin, $8.95...
...Kai T. Erikson...
...Norman Metzger...
...He also sold them the right to sell others the right to sell...
...200 Years of American Business...
...Bruce C. Murray, Eric Burgess...
...Anne Strick...
...As is the case all too seldom with great men, Lisagor was even better in person than in print, partly because his wise, witty, profane conversational style was necessarily edited out of his articles...
...Laughing Lqst: Alger Hiss...
...Steve Horowitz, Neil Offen...
...Henry P. Lundsgaarde...
...Dare To Be Great...
...No better case can be made for gun control...
...In 1961 Jerome Waldie, then a California state assemblyman, later a congressman, introduced a bill making it legal to hunt frogs with a slingshot...
...Constantine FitzGibbon...
...Hill and Wang, $12.95...
...Energy: The Continuing Crisis...
...The Plot to Destroy Israel: The Road to Armageddon...
...Lundsgaarde is an anthropologist who, during a temporary academic assignment in Houston, became fascinated with the staggeringly high murder rate there, and he has written a thorough if not gripping book about what might be called the culture of murder...
...Reader's Digest Press, $12.95...
...Thomas C. Cochran...
...If you sold the product, you could make a few cents a sale...
...Calling Dr...
...John Turner...
...Flight to Mercury...
...he Plug-In Drug...
...Marie Winn...
...Morrow, $8.95...
...Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century...
...Tony Hiss...
...The Female Experience: An American Documentary...
...Rudy Maxa...
...Housing by People: Toward Autonomy in Building Environments...
...Pantheon, $101 $3.95...
Vol. 8 • February 1977 • No. 12
