Political Book Notes
political book notes The Aesthetic Dimension. Herbert Marcuse. Beacon, $6.95. Antonio Maceo: The “Bronze Titan” of Cuba’s Struggle for Independence. Philip S. Foner. Monthly Review Press,...
...Nadav Safran...
...Why the Professor Can't Teach: Mathematics and the Dilemma of University Education...
...The Voluntary Non-Profit Sector: An Economic Analysis...
...Zoltan Kenessy . Columbia University Press, $16.50...
...Morrow, $10.95...
...Unemployment in History: Economic Thought and Public Policy...
...Lexington, $18...
...In quest of answers, the authors studied the court systems of Los Angeles, New York, and Washington...
...Rogers...
...Poverty-related factors such as being held in pre-trial detention for lack of bail adversely affected the defendants’ fate...
...Judicial Impact and State Supreme Courts...
...Robert Blake...
...such small differences as showed up were in favor of the institutional defender organizations...
...Images of the Urban Environment...
...Israel-The Embattled Ally...
...In what may be the most comprehensive book on the subject in a long time, 13 specialists in Asian affairs examine the cyclical love-hate relationship of the United States and China...
...The court process has become administrative rather than adjudicative, an assembly line for handling volume...
...Lippincott, $8.95...
...This isn't a sophisticated political tract, but it does impart a strong sense of the adversity and poverty that shaped Seale's thinking...
...trans...
...Havens...
...Lexington, $18.95...
...The postwar American alliance with Nationalist China resulted in the establishment of a host of American bureaucracies with a “China @ssion”-and “where bureaucpacies penetrate, there they remain...
...An interesting passage alludes to the role the bureaucracy played in our China policy...
...I Against this background, the NixonKissinger cabal is understandable...
...3. A rethinking of our cold war position in Korea, an area with a high potential for instability...
...These bureaucracies had a vested interest in keeping warm the hostility toward communist China-a factor Nixon had to contend with when he brought a new initiative to our China policy...
...Doubleday, $10...
...Valley of Darkness...
...Richard R. Nelfon, Douglas Yates, eds...
...Columbia University Press, $12...
...Lawrence W. Levine...
...Robert Hermann, Eric Single, John Boston...
...Martin's, $8.95...
...Uniformly, the defendants in the three cities thought privately retained lawyers did the best job: “You get what you pay for...
...Times, $10.95...
...If the cultural abyss between the two countries lent a certain Gilbert and Sullivan humor to the love period-the American penchant for bringing light to the heathen fitting perfectly the Chinese assumption that those who come into their midst are paying tribute to their superiority-it made for intensification of the hate aspect, leading finally to armed conflict...
...The Quest for Justice: The Politics of School Finance Reform...
...by W.G...
...10.95...
...C. Fred Bergsten...
...Lawyer’s Lawyer: The Life of John W. Davis...
...Longman...
...I have only one quibble with this argument...
...In the short run, China and the United States may have to cooperate to check Soviet expansionism...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...Atheneum, $10...
...Basic, $10.95...
...In all three cities defendants with publicly paid lawyers experienced roughly the same conviction and imprisonment rates as those who hired private lawyers...
...The Real Suez Crisis...
...Lexington, $15...
...detail...
...This is no scattershot collection of essays, but a carefully conceived approach in which each author contributes to the mosaic the editors have designed...
...William Harbaugh...
...Taylor...
...John A. Garraty...
...Can an accused person who depends on a “free” lawyer get the same quality of justice as one who hires his lawyer...
...t was a gabal “against recalcitrant bureaucracies...
...Jacques Gorges-Picot...
...The lawyer did not even explore the possibility of an insanity defense...
...2. Recognition by the United States of the People’s Republic of China, the prerequisite for which is the de-recognition of the Republic of China...
...The War Lords...
...The Arizona Project: How a Team of Investigative Reporters Got Revenge on Deadline...
...The United States, OPEC and Multinational Oil...
...A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale...
...The authors don’t suggest that the poor get equal justice...
...Arlington, $8.95...
...From Private Vice to Public Virtue...
...Leonard Reed Nixon was in the forefront o P the profesEconomic Changes in the Philadelphia Region, 1810-1850...
...They do suggest that lawyers’ performance in the criminal process may not be as important as generally supposed-and that publicly paid criminal defense for the indigent i s at least as effective as that bought in the marketplace...
...A History of Rhodesia...
...The Truth About the Panama Canal...
...Ted Morgan...
...Innovation and Implementatiop in Public Organizations...
...Oxford, $4.94...
...Tenderness is Strength: From Machismo to Manhood...
...Sheed Andrews and McMeel, $9.95...
...A.J.P...
...Dodd, Mead, $10.95...
...Lyle Stuart, $8.95...
...Eisenhower, ed...
...Harper & Row, $10...
...Leonard Reed Dragon and Eagle: United States-China Relations, Past and Future...
...Lexington, $18...
...Monthly Review Press, $15...
...James Reed...
...Putnam, $10.95...
...The man was sentenced to 75 years in prison...
...Sara Halbert...
...Is that actual case typical of criminal defense for the poor in the United States...
...In Los Angeles the Public Defender is civil service...
...Seale comes across as an attractively honest man, fairly free of self-delusion but burdened with an immense component of macho that manifests itself in a fascination with both violence and sexual conquest, the latter recounted in loving ("Oh chairman, all of it, chairman...
...On Becoming American...
...As the authors see it, these considerations must be part of a constructive course: 1. A multilateral relationship shared by China, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States...
...Denison Kitchel...
...for the longterm, American interests lie not in perpetuating Sino-Soviet antagonisms but in a stable relationship conducive to disarmament...
...Phyllis H. Stock...
...Houghton Mifflin, $15.95...
...Oxford, $6.95...
...Random House, $6.95...
...Morris Kline...
...Nor did the lawyer-related outcome of the cases support the “money talks” cynicism...
...Basic, $12.50...
...The Romance of American Communism...
...In contrast, the legal community felt that the quality of publicly provided defense equals and often tops that given by privately retained lawyers-perhaps because in a system of administrative justice the adversarial talents of a Perry Mason are superfluous...
...To set the scene, the overwhelming majority of people accused of crimes are represented by lawyers hired and paid by the government, and plea bargaining has almost entirely replaced trial in urban courts, with the threat of a harsher sentence hanging over the defendant who insists on going to trial...
...John S.D...
...Bobby Seale...
...1 1.95...
...Harper & Row, $16...
...Houghton Mifflin, $10.95...
...Economic Planning...
...Call Me Counselor...
...Are We All Nazis...
...These are Eisenhower’s letters to his wife during World War 11, skillfully and straightforwardly gdited by his son...
...In all three cities, the defendant in a criminal case may hire his own lawyer or be represented by either a court-appointed private lawyer or an attorney from an organization set up to defend the poor...
...MacWin Fleming...
...Burton A. Weisbrod...
...Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom...
...Hans Askenasy...
...Letters to Mamie...
...Douglas Pocock, Ray Hudson...
...John Brown’s Journey: Notes and Reff ections on His America and Mine...
...Better Than Rubies: A History of Women’s Education...
...The former chairman of the Black Panther party tells the story of his life in a series of sfiort, vivid, somewhat disjointed scenes, starting with his very early childhood...
...The major test of American foreign policy in the years ahead may be how we interact with this culture, so different from our own...
...The authors hope that can be done without compromising the possibility of an independent Taiwan-but maintain that ultimately the determination of Taiwan’s status is neither our right nor responsibility...
...Norton, $8.95...
...Henri Baruk...
...Richard Lehne...
...Counsel for the Poor: Criminal Defense in Urban America...
...The history of an indigent defendant: left school in fifth grade, reformatory at 15, two subsequent prison terms, had cut off a finger, cut his heel tendons seven times, slashed his wrists twice, broken his arm, received 25 shock treatments, was diagnosed psychotic and committed to a mental institution...
...Ethical Perspectives on Business and Society...
...Patients are People Like Us: The Experiences of Half a Century of Neuropsychiatry...
...John G. Fuller...
...G. Alan Tarr...
...George 8. Shultz, Kenneth W. Dam...
...Of'Crimes and Rights...
...While marred by the feverish cliches typical of books about disasters, this remains a dramatic reminder of the dangers inherent in the manufacture of chemicals...
...Yerachmiel Kugel, Gladys W. Gruenberg, eds...
...The Poison That Fell from the Sky...
...Diane Lindstrom...
...Ike was so prudent that he wouldn't say a word about the prqgress of the war in the letters, and he was no literary genius, so the material here is just a collection of minor family news and touching, if corny, statements of devotion to Mamie...
...He bears a heavy responsibility for the balligerence which pervaded our China bureaucracies...
...Lexington, $15...
...Alfred A. Knopf, $15...
...justice can be a by-product but is not the object of the system...
...in New York and Washington, the Legal Aid Society and the Public Defender Service, respectively, are quasi-governmenHow the legal profession compares the work of these types of defense lawyers, how the man in the dock sees it, and what the record says about the defendant’s fate-these are the areas the authors probe...
...The United States should promote an equilibrium of regional powers in Northeast Asia and shift to Japan more responsibility for protecting its own interests...
...Harold C. Lyon, Jr...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...And, except in Washington, where the elite Public Defender Service takes relatively few cases, second choice was court-appointed lawyers...
...A dissappointing recounting of what could have been a fascinating story about life in Japan during World War 11...
...Vivian Gornick...
...Thomas R.H...
...Michel Oksenberg, Robert B. Oxnam, eds...
...The collection‘servps what is said to be its immediate purpose-it makes a persuasive case that Ike didn't have an affair with his driver, Kay Summersby-but otherwise it's of little lasting value...
...Lexington, $20...
...Michael F. Wendland...
...Norton, $9.95...
...Norton...
...Alfred Fried...
...Lexington, $18...
...Basic, $17.50...
...Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines...
...Now, being tried on two counts of robbery committed shortly after his escape from that institution, he’d had one brief consultation with his court-appointed lawyer...
...Lopg before becomin President, sional witch-hunters who stood like Gibraltar against any rationalization of our China policy...
...It’s ironic that history should credit him with the “opening to China” when his primary contribution to it consisted of removing himself as a barrier by becoming President...
...Humankind: A Status Report on Our Species...
...Managing International Economic Interdependence: Selected Papers of C. Fred Bergsten, 1975-1976...
...Frank R. Wyant...
...Columbia University Press, $16.50...
...Peter Farb...
Vol. 9 • February 1978 • No. 12
