Political Book Notes
politicL book notes The American Economy: Income, Wealth, and Want. Stanley Lebergott. Princeton, $6.95. Lebergott argues that the reason there is poverty in America is that “few Americans...
...Humanomics: How We Can Make the Economy Serve Us-Not Destroy Us...
...Lawence A. Cremin...
...After so many years of war, the fall of Saigon left most Americans with a sense of sadness and remorse...
...Outer Space and Inner Sanctums: Government, Business and Satellite Communication...
...Giai Phong...
...Michi Weglyn...
...An obsequious piece of work that adds little to our understanding of Kennedy and absolutely nothing to Burns’ standing as a scholar...
...The report is one of the more important documents of our time and should be studied by everyone who wants to understand a cover-up more typical of the bureaucratic mind than Watergate...
...Norton, $8.95/$3.95...
...The Democrats: The Years after FDR...
...The answer is, just great...
...Cornelia Wallace, who married Governor George Wallace some 16 months before he was shot in Maryland, tells us a lot about Wallace’s medical problems in this book, and less about herself and her family...
...Eugen Loebl...
...The “breakpoint” is “a place in time where the taxpayer’s ability to withstand the load of unlimited government largesse finally gives way...
...Ted Patrick...
...Morrow, $10.95...
...John Wiley, $11.50...
...Barbara Ward...
...Erik p. fikhoh, Norton, $7.95...
...Interview with History...
...Madam Secretary: Frances Perkins...
...Harper & Row, $6.95...
...If it is not soon stopped, “we could see our Republic collapse and our democracy smother to death under a mountain of government debt, regulation, and red tape...
...How Cities Are Saved Herbert R. bttman...
...But still, this is a worthwhile memoir...
...Annette Baker Fox, et al., eds...
...Little, Brown, $20...
...Harper & Row, $7.95...
...A rather unflattering portrait of this curious man, who was, in a sense, the first media superstar...
...Liveright, $10.95...
...Patrick‘s Day with Mayor Daley: And Other Things Too Good To Miss...
...Pursuing the American Dream: White Ethnics and the New Populism...
...A. J. Holman, $7.95...
...If they did, the technical problem of redistributing income would be a fairly straightforward matter...
...Cornelia Wallace...
...George Martin...
...Tiziano Terzani...
...Quadrangle/New York Times, $7.95...
...Macmillan, $8.95...
...John Holt...
...Yale...
...Leonard Mosley...
...Barry Goldwater...
...Bantam, $1.75...
...Edwin M. Schur...
...Michael Dorman...
...Putnam, $10...
...The Fall and Liberation of Saigon...
...Edward Kennedy and the Camelot Legacy...
...Doubleday, $12.95...
...Let Our Children Go...
...The Awareness Trap: Self-Absorption Instead of Social Change...
...Free Press, $10.95/$2.95...
...Viking, $7.95...
...Robert K. Murray...
...Richard J. Krickus...
...Unlike Goldwater’s previous works, which seemed to have been incubated in a far-right field, this attack on the government bureaucracy deals with a subject on the minds of conservatives and liberals alike...
...Basic, $7.95...
...This is a pleasant enough book of political economy, arguing that what we need is a middle road between capitalism and socialism-and a “humanomics” to help us manage such a system...
...Indiana, $12.50...
...Canada and the United States: Transnational and Transgovernmental Relations...
...Fred Ferretti...
...The biographical sections seem mainly an excuse for Burns’ speculations on what Teddy’s presidency will be like...
...Walter Johnson et al...
...Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better...
...Macmillan, $12.95...
...Universe, $12.50...
...Joe McGinniss...
...Evil and World Order...
...Continuum/Seabury, $8.95...
...Eugene Kennedy...
...Heroes...
...The 103rd Ballot: Democrats and Disaster in Madison Square Garden...
...It also contains somewhat less than the Senator’s usual quota of exaggerations and oversimplifications C‘nelia...
...Lindbergh...
...It is probably too soon for American readers to join in the rejoicing, but a good book nonetheless...
...Martin’s, $10...
...Oriana Fallaci...
...The George Wallace Myth...
...Unfortunately, Loebl offers no serious economic analysis and instead asserts, repeatedly, the soundness of such a course...
...The authors grew up together in Texas, but then followed different paths-Eckhardt to Congress, Black to the faculty of Yale Law School...
...For the author of this account (Der Spiegel‘s Southeast Asian correspondent), it was reason for exuberance the just conclusion to a just war of liberal tion...
...Joseph Goldstein, Burke Marshall, Jack Schwartz...
...Losing Ground: Environmental Stress and World Food hospects...
...As has happened so often since, the continual publicity and attention ended up destroying him...
...Dutton, $8.95...
...The President Makers: From Mark Hanna to Joseph P. Kennedy...
...An Intimate Self Portrait...
...Michael Kinsley...
...Tides of Power: Conversations on the American Constitution between Bob Eckhardt and Charles L. Black, Jr...
...Random House, $6.95...
...VI: Toward a New America 1955-1957...
...If wishes were horses, economists would ride...
...Norton, $11.95...
...William Irwin Thompson...
...The quantity of original information and insight is modest, to say the least...
...Columbia, $22 SO f $6.95...
...Both the Army’s liberal critics and its conservative defenders should ponder the paradox that the Army was smart/good enough to make Peers a lieutenant general and to authorize his report but dumb/bad enough to deny Peers further promotion because he had told the truth...
...Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps...
...Their discussion rambles, as does most conversation between friends, but it is enriched by their different perspectives growing out of a shared past and a shared devotion to constitutional government...
...Public Education...
...This is a pity, because she is an interesting and intelligent woman, and her family (her uncle was former Alabama Governor “Kissin’ Jim” Folsom), was one of the more remarkable in the annals of southern politics...
...The My Lai Massacre and Its Cover-up: Beyond the Reach of Law...
...Herbert S. Parmet...
...Lebergott argues that the reason there is poverty in America is that “few Americans really want to end poverty...
...Thus the paradox of this book: If the problem of income distribution is political-not economic-then well-fashioned economic analyses like Lebergott’s miss the point...
...Dutton, $7.95...
...The Papers of Adlai Stevenson, Vol...
...Harper & Row, $10.95...
...Little, Brown, $12.50...
...It is coming, Senator Goldwater feels, “at blinding speed...
...The Year the Big Apple Went Bust...
...James MacGregor Burns...
...Francis Russell...
...The author writes so well that his book is consistently readable, even though he has nothing to say, which is particularly unfortunate, since his subject, the disappearance of heroes, is potentially rich...
...The Coming Breakpoint...
...The Home of Man...
Vol. 8 • April 1976 • No. 2
