Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes Public affairs books to be published in March. Adlai Stevenson of nlinois. John Bartlow Martin. Doubleday, $15. This is a mammoth book, but if you’re a Stevenson fan,...
...John Rothchild set off from Miami in a Volkswagon bus with Susan Wolf and her children Chauncey and Bernsie to take a look at the counterculture...
...Chosen Books, $8.95...
...The Rape of the Great Plains: Northwest America, Cattle and Coal...
...The author was The New York Times White House correspondent during the last months of President Nixon and the first months of President Ford...
...Houghton Mifflin, $17.50...
...David A Remley...
...of Notre Dame Press, $12.9514.95...
...Harvard, $15...
...McGraw-Hill, $8.95...
...Robert Lekachman...
...Columbia, $22.50/$6.95...
...McGraw-Hill, $9.95...
...The case reached the Supreme Court but was declared moot, as DeFunis had been subsequently admitted...
...Tibor Scitovsky...
...George Martin...
...Norton, $7.95...
...FBI...
...The Communist Movement: From Comintern to Cominform...
...Tndiana Univ...
...Philip Crass...
...Press, $10.95...
...Monthly Review, $27...
...Matti Golan...
...Perhaps they should be seen and not heard...
...Fernando Claudin...
...Warren here identifies George Wallace’s constituencythose middle-class Americans who “feel personally threatened by economic and status insecurity, deeply isolated from the institutions which a re supposed to serve them,” but he fails to bring them to life...
...William Stevenson...
...Still, like last year’s Bodyguard of Lies, this book is valuable in its reminder that we do need some kinds of intelligence activity and our aim should be to reform, not abolish, the CIA and the other intelligence agencies...
...Charles Colson...
...Born Again...
...Too much...
...Media Access: Your Right to Expres Your Views on Radio and Television...
...Donald I. Warren...
...No Thank You, Mr...
...We left Miami as two progressive, aware parents who had once been married and didn’t have to do that anymore,” Rothchild writes, “who were raising Chauncey and Bernsie in a much more open and aware manner than our parents had raised us...
...Crooked Road: A History of the Alaska Highway...
...Not quite so much...
...Andrew Shapiro...
...Oxford, $11.95...
...Random House/Vintage, $15/5.95...
...The Promise of Greatness...
...Robert Tdove...
...Univ...
...Michele Flynn Stenehjem...
...Columbia, $20...
...Peter Collier, David Horowitz...
...Prentice-Hall, $7.95...
...An American First: John T. Flynn and the America First Committee...
...Holt, Rinehart &Winston, $15...
...Sar A. Levitan, Robert Taggart...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...Free Press, $12.95...
...Madam Secretary: Frances Perkins...
...Economists at Bay: Why the Experts Will Never Solve Your Problems...
...The Invisible Primary...
...Here we have a detailed study of the lawsuit brought by Marco DeFunis against the University of Washington when he was denied admission to their law school while less qualified minority applicants were admitted...
...Canada and the United States: Transnational and Transgovernmental Relations...
...The charm of this memoir is that Herbers, who spent ten years as a UP1 reporter in Mississippi, has remained enough of an outsider to see the surreal aspect of the events described...
...The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty...
...Public Employee Pension Funds...
...Watch Out for George Wallace...
...Di s cri mi natin Against Discrimnation: Preferential Afmissions and the DeFunis Case...
...Crow%, $10...
...Rights,” these days, tend to be more and more viewed as a kind of large public cake, of which everyone should be encouraged to grab as large a share as possible...
...Peter Dale Scott, Paul H. Hoch, Russell Statler, eds...
...Pantheon, $10...
...Robert M. O’Neil...
...Ralph Nader, Mark Green, eds...
...Arlington House, $8.95...
...We certainly didn’t expect to learn anything from the alternative people we wanted to visit-we already let Chauncey and Bernsie puff on the joints being passed around and we already had to warn them not to say ‘motherfucker’ at Disneyland...
...And we couldn’t think of a more radical thing than that...
...Gerald Leinwald, ed...
...Wayne Greenhaw...
...Daniel Guttman, Barry Willner...
...drcourt Brace Jovanovich, $12.95...
...Pocket Books, $1.95...
...John Herbers...
...One surprise: Adlai was a womanizer, too...
...Although the author’s conclusion (that special admissions procedures are justified to remedy the present under-representation of black and Spanishspeaking minorities) is certainly debatable, O’Neil is to be commended for undertaking such a thorough study of so important an issue...
...Sanford J. Ungar...
...There’s a feeling that John Rothchild and Susan Wolf may have really made the trip to find out if they really were bringing up their children in a “more open and aware” manner than they themselves had been, or whether they were merely the gullible dupes of one more deception emanating from the counter-culture...
...Annette Baker Fox, et al...
...in this issue...
...Confusion, Disinformation, Communication...
...A closely argued, thick-headed defense of the Great Society social programs...
...Perhaps the Victorians were right...
...Children of the Counterculture...
...Nelson W. Polsby, Aaron Wildavsky...
...Another problem: the grownups in this book are much more interesting than the children-upon whom the book unfortunately is focnsed...
...The Future...
...Atlantic-Little, Brown, $9.95...
...The Shadow Government: The Government’s Multibillion-Dollar Giveaway of Its Decsion-Making Powers...
...How Real Is Real...
...John Rothchild, Susan Wolf...
...Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $15...
...Not heard of, anyway...
...And his analysis magnifies the extent of the Wallace threat to implausible proportions: “He could, given a certain set of circumstances, be Presidentelect W$lace before the Bicentennial year is through...
...A dull but worthy study of congressional investigations by a former Ervin Committee staff member...
...The Power to Probe: A Study of Con essional Random House, $12.50...
...Presidential Elections: Strategies of American Electoral Politics...
...Verdicts on La ers...
...Crass’ insights are of the “George Wallace loved to campaign” variety...
...An excerpt appeared in the January issue of The Washington Monthly...
...Mason/ Charter...
...Scribners, $8.9514.95...
...The Wallace Factor...
...A rational, readable description of the house that Hoover built...
...Anthony Burton...
...The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissiner: StepBy-Step Diplomacy in the Middle kast...
...Prentice-Hall, $10.95...
...This is a mammoth book, but if you’re a Stevenson fan, you won’t be bored one minute...
...Random House, $10...
...Atlantic-Little Brown, $14.95...
...Ross K. Toole...
...Alger Hiss: The True Story...
...See Tom Bethell’s review, “Earl Warren: On the Mob’s Payroll...
...Paul Watzlawick...
...An entirely derivative book on the Wallace menace which displays a considerable debt to Marshall Frady, Robert Sherrill, Stephen Brill, and every national poll published since 1964, but indicates no original research whatsoever...
...President...
...Quadrangle...
...A guerrilla text, which regards the FCC control of air-wave media as a government-sent opportunity to figure out the legal loopholes, file your complaint, and get your point of view across...
...Urban Terrorism: Theory, Practice and Response...
...The Radical Center: Middle Americans and the Politics of Alienation...
...Little, Brown, $8.95...
...His most vivid memory from the Watergate period is of a dismal trip to Florida that ended with White House staffers having to kick King Timahoe I1 up the stairs of Air Force One...
...A Man Called Intre id: The Secret War...
...he Joyless Economy...
...Arthur T. Hadley...
...By the end of the book, they’re still not quite sure, or so it seems...
...The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond-A Guide to Cover-ups and Investigations...
...Instead they are discussed within the dread parameter^" of social science: attitude surveys, programmatic directions, percentiles, questionnaire responses, in-depth analyses...
...This appears to be Shapiro’s notentirelyedifying point of departure...
...John Cabot Smith...
...A badly written book by an author whose major gift seems to be a mastery of the non sequitur...
Vol. 8 • March 1976 • No. 1
