Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes Public affairs books to de published in November America In Our Time. Godfrey Hodgson Doubleday, $12.95. Animal Doctor. Lucas Younker, D.V.M., John J. Fried. Dutton,...
...That all seemed fair at the beginning,’ Dave continued...
...This is an unpretentious book, and rightly so...
...Burton J. Bledstein...
...White Coat, Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American System...
...Norton, $12.95...
...The Lawless State: The Ckimes of the U. S. Intelligence Agencies...
...Basic, $10.50...
...Samuel Dash...
...Macmillan, $9.95...
...One example: “The sudden shift in the importance of the Watergate break-in and cover-up phase of our public hearings, with the attendant wide newspaper and TV coverage, also had a sharp impact on my top staff...
...Ronald J. Glasser, MD...
...Here to Stay: American Families in the Twentieth Century...
...They have, that is, unhappy childhoods, unhappy marriages, unsatisfying sex lives, unfulfilling work, high levels of anxiety, great difficulties in communication, and so on-all directly traceable to their economic class...
...The Control of Oil...
...Woman Doctor...
...The Greatest Battle...
...We have more trial experience and public reputation than Hamilton...
...Morton H. Halperin, et al...
...Basic, $11.95...
...Alabama, $10.75...
...In a thousand subtle ways, Rubin shows how her subjects’ relative lack of money has hurt them...
...Dutton, $8.95...
...Rubin basically believes that money determines all things and shapes all experiences, and that the lack of money has had deep, destructive effects on her subjects...
...Blacks certainly played a part in the Southern Populist movement, and the movement was to some extent an attempt 40 organize politically along class lines-but it was never trily integrated, and the South’s racism played a major role in tearing it apart...
...Florence Haseltime, MD, Yvonne Yaw...
...the next step in the development of the “classism” issue could well be a series of defenses, asserting working-class pride and saying that despite the economic oppression, life in gritty Oakland can be good...
...Worlds of Pain...
...Well, to our surprise, we were...
...That will give Jim Hamilton the limelight and leave Terry and me little or no opportunity for public exposure.’ ‘“So what do you suggest?’ I asked, sensing the answer to my question...
...Norton, $8.95...
...Energy Supply and Government Policy...
...Very pleasant reading...
...An unlikely subject...
...Chief Counsel: Inside the Ervin CornmitteeThe Untold Story of Watergate...
...Arlington House, $8.95...
...The Electric Wishing Well...
...Simon & Ekhuster...
...After Ulasewicz’s testimony, Dave Dorsen and Terry Lenzner asked to meet with me privately...
...Blacks and the Populist Revolt: Ballots and Bigotry in the New South...
...Henry Cabot Lodge...
...The Investigative Journalist: Folk Heroes of a New Era...
...James Roosevelt...
...What Terry and I have to say,’ Dave began, ‘fully recognizes that when we began working together we all agreed to chop up the investigation in three distinct areas, and that each of the assistant chief counsel would help you in a particular area, I was happy to direct the investigation on campaign financing and Terry took on the dirty tricks phase...
...Robert H. Pilpel...
...It’s sometimes hard to believe how much material Mintz h d Cohen can squeeze under a single theoretical umbrella, and sometimes “ac~~untabilitys”e ems accordingly a little too simple or obvious a solution for a bewildering series of national woes...
...It’s a persuasive case and a strong rebuttal to the school of thought that holds that since American workers are so well-paid in comparison to their forebears, they must be happy...
...Joseph J. DiCerto...
...A witty and fascinating exploration of the human causes of disastrous generalship...
...Random House, $10...
...They were obviously disturbed, and Dave looked embarrassed...
...We want to be able to share in the questioning of the Watergate witnesses.’ They debated in t h s vein for a whde, but all I could promise them was that I would present the problem to Jim and recommend a solution...
...Why would anyone be interested in a book about Churchill’s trips to the United States...
...Churchill in America: An Affectionate Portrait...
...Mainly, this is just a Lodge scrapbook, fairly appealing but not very substantial...
...Judgement: A Case of Medical Malpractice...
...F’rentice-Hall...
...Richard H. Rovere...
...Macmillan, $1 2.95...
...An excerpt appears in the October issue of 7he Washington Monthly...
...Pantheon, $15...
...Macmillan, $10.95...
...Her vision seems perhaps too unremittingly bleak...
...Mintz, one of the best investigative reporters, and Cohen leave out very little, but don’t add much new...
...V i g , $15...
...Penguin, $2.95...
...Spark M. Matsunaga, ping Chen...
...Nothing new on the Watergate scandal itself but lots of nice anecdotes about clashing egos among the investigators...
...Rulemakers of the House...
...Basic, $12.50...
...their book is a compendium of the various scandals and outrages of the last five years, without any really original material...
...On the Psychology of Military Incompetence...
...That left the Watergate break-in and cover-up to Jim Hamilton.’ Dave spoke haltingly, emphasizing particular points with hand gestures...
...Fitzhugh Mullan, MD...
...James H. Dygert...
...Blind Ambition: ‘?her White House Yqrs...
...Rubin is, by the way, also obviously quite interested in feminism, and much of the book-including many of its most perceptive passages-is devoted to observations on relations between the sexes, most of which need not apply exclusively to the working class, and are in fact imprisoned, to some extent, by the terms of the book...
...LiUian Rubin interviewed 50 randomly chosen working-class couples in the San Francisco Bay area and came away with a great many insights-not statistically provable, but quite perceptive-about workingclass life in America and the role of class in general...
...Betrayal in Vietnam...
...Mason/Charter, $8.95...
...Lillian Breslow Rubin...
...John M. Blair...
...But now Watergate has become the most exciting phase of the committee’s work and undoubtedly will receive the lion’s share, if not the only share, of live TV coverage...
...Illinois, $7.95...
...On the other hand, one gets the sense reading this book that Rubin could make anyone-even middleclass and rich peoplesound unhappy, so intent is she on unearthing the unpleasant side of life...
...Arrivals and Departures: A Journalist’s Memoirs...
...The Culture of Professionalism-The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America...
...Power, Inc...
...My Parents: A Differing View...
...Columbia, $14.95...
...Gail Kessler...
...In that sense, she’s reminiscent of the early white civil rights theorists who would have you believe that every black person’s life was uninterrupted agony...
...8.95...
...Stanley D. Bachrack...
...Norman F. Dixon...
...Robert J. Kalter, William A. Vogely...
...John Dean...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $10...
...Playboy, $12.50...
...More than six hundred pages, spread over 47 chapters, on what’s wrong with America today...
...Gaither makes the nineteenth-century Populists out to be not as bad as we thought in the OS, and not as good as we think today...
...The Committee of One Million: “China Lobby” Politics, 1953-1971...
...Cornell, $18.50/5.95...
...A short collection of old notes, memoranda, and correspondence, strung together with some present-day commentary, all meant to recreate the years Lodge served President Eisenhower as ambassador to the United Nations...
...As It Was: An Inside View of Politics and Power in the ’50s and ’60s...
...Gerald H. Gaither...
...the most it does is attempt to refurbish the Eisenhower image a little, and even that only by the way...
...Random House, $6.95...
...Louis A. Fanning...
...Mary Joe Bane...
...Morton Mintz, Jerry S. Cohen...
...Terry, who had been sitting with a scowl on his face as Dave spoke, replied, ‘Dave and I think we should change the whole deal...
...Houghton Mifflin, $8.95...
...Race over class, that is, was the JU$Z in the South...
...The overall impression, strongly created, is of a country in terrible shape, mostly due to a lack of “accountability”-that is, big institutions are going about their business without anybody keeping an eye on them, The solution is to bring about public participation in the system to the greatest possible extent, by setting up lots of checks and making lots of information public...
...7.95...
Vol. 8 • November 1976 • No. 9
