Political Book Notes
Pilitical Book Notes PUblic affairs books to be published in March. The American Catholic: A Social Portrait. Andrew M. Greeley. Basic, $15. The American Monomyth. Robert Jewett, John Shelton...
...The Passions and the Interests: Political Arrmments for Caoitalism Before Its Triumph...
...Robert B. Downs...
...Simon & Schuster, $1 195...
...Morris Dickstein...
...At a time of an increasing separation of a meritocratic elite from the rest of the people, this reasoned reaffirmation of the democratic faith is needed and welcome...
...There are no long sentences...
...If we have the umbrella, the organizing concept, we have a whole govemment full of experts who can come up with the programs to put under it.’ ” Without Fear or Favor...
...Little, Brown, $8.95...
...Reader’s Digest, $12.95...
...A highly entertaining account of the 1976 Democratic National Convention, featuring whores and lieutenant governors as well as presidential candidates, by the former political writer for New York...
...The result, however, hardly inspires trust in the advertising business, or in politics...
...Princeton, $10/$2.95...
...M. Evans, $8.95...
...It’s a fascinating subject, which is why it’s been written about so often, and because of that the book doesn’t say anything strikingly new...
...Brigham Young Univ., $1 1.95...
...Carl Rogers...
...LeRoy Harlow spent 30 years as the city manager of various small-to-middling towns around America, and he seems to have done his job with skill, dedication, and even flair...
...Dial, $14.95...
...Columbia'Univ., $1'6.95...
...Sidney Kraus, * ed...
...Hoover, ' Roosevelt, i d the Brains T y t : From Depresiion to New Deal...
...Reader’s Digest, $8.95...
...Linda Horn, Elma Griesel...
...Sound of Impact: The Legacy of TWA Flight...
...Hirschman...
...Indiana Univ., $15/$4.95...
...as a levy on the affluent gone evolved into a levy that is toughest on the non-affluent-but that sticks in the And less than does Carson's meticulous story-telling...
...Free Press, $14.95...
...Robert Jewett, John Shelton Lawrence...
...The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Public Policy Analysk...
...Like this...
...Howard Senzel...
...Carl Rogers on Personal Power...
...Scattered programs-without any real direction...
...This is a SelZing of the President in reverse-it’s President Ford’s 1976 adman who’s telling the story of the campaign, and he does so with great pride in his accomplishments and faith in advertising generally...
...David Detzer...
...Nation-Building and Citizenship: Studies of &r Changing Social Order...
...Reinhard Bendix...
...Crowell, $9.95...
...The Collapse of Liberal Empire: Science and Revolution in the Twentieth Century...
...Yale Univ., $10...
...Books That Changed the South...
...However, the author’s mind, which can be very good, is not on conspicuous display here...
...Frank Cormier...
...The Great Debates: Kennedy vs...
...The general theme is reflections on the possibility of Mee ghostwriting H. R. Haldeman’s memoirs, but the book is devoted mostly to Mee’s own life and his barely coherent thoughts about the nature of America...
...Dickstein is a smart man with a keen eye for intellectual history, but this isn’t the brilliant synthesis of the last two decades that he seems to have intended it to be...
...The Inequality of Nations...
...Adam David Shaw...
...Baseball and the Cold War: A Soliloquy on the Necessity of Baseball...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Playing the Price Controls Game...
...Crown, $8.95...
...Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties...
...The Future of the Humanities...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $8.95...
...Juan Corona...
...Kalman H. Silvert...
...The author of a good, straightforward book on the Potsdam conference made the fatal mistake of deciding that his own ruminations were interesting, and he has made them into a very bad book...
...Nixon, 1960...
...Convention...
...Richard Reeves...
...The Children’s Rights Movement: Overcoming the Oppression of Young People...
...Gerald T. Dunne...
...although he goes through long explanations of how he took the account for idealistic reasons, the President seems to have mattered to him chiefly as a prestige client...
...One of our more original thinkers about foreign affairs says that we have nothing to fear from the underdeveloped world long'as we meet its reasonable demands, e.g., for more .stable commodity prices.' The problem is that he pays much too little attention to the unreasonable terrorists and has too little sympathy for the emotions of people who have been left out too long...
...Lloyd L. Weinreb...
...Free Press, $12.95...
...Richard R. Nelson...
...Anthony Cave Brown, Charles B. MacDonald, eds...
...Its main point is that what started...
...Elliot A. Rosen...
...Delacorte, $10...
...Charles L. Mee, Jr...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...The CIA’S Secret Operations: Espionage, Counter-Espionage, and Covert Action...
...Viking, $10...
...Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution...
...Beatrice and Ronald Gross, eds...
...Arlington House,'$l1.95...
...Beacon, $8.95/$2.95...
...Albert 0...
...Viking Penguin, $8.95...
...Traditions of Amerian Education...
...Grow Or Die: The Overpopulation Myth...
...Unfortunately, however, hats cannot go off to him as an author-this is a well-intentioned but humdrum account of a lot of minor problems, probably of far greater interest to other city managers than to the rest of us...
...He devotes but one page to the dangers of nuclear terrorism, and that to dismissing it, which not only means that he must know very little about the accessibility of nuclear technology and materials but that he has ignored the success of both PLO and Israeli commandos in pulling off complex operations @foreiig n lands...
...Malcolm D. MacDougall...
...Houghton Mifflin, $10...
...Univ...
...Now,’ said Doug, ‘all we have to do is figure out what it is.’ . . . “‘One small question,’ I said, opening my Pentab and getting ready to go to work, ‘Does he actually have any programs for the future?’ “ ‘As a matter of fact, he does,’ said Doug...
...Robert W. Tucker...
...Victor Viasenor...
...Lots of amusing anecdotes about LBJ, unencumbered by anything at all heavy...
...Does Anybody Give a Damn...
...James A. Weber...
...Doubleday/ Anchor, $9.95/$3.95...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Paul N. Goldstene...
...The author says we have too many teachers of the humanities who are scholastic technicians focusing unimaginatively on narrow slices of learning...
...Lots of stuff we can recommend...
...On the other hand, he finds far too few Socratic critics “committed to rigorous examination of the faith and morals of the time, giving pride of place to those convictions which are widely shared and rarely questioned...
...He urges an interdisciplinary approach that would restore life and relevance-a word whose recent abuse he fully understands-to the humanities by courses that focus on important issues and draw their materials from the entire range of knowledge...
...Denial of Justice: Criminal Process in the United States...
...Nursing Homes...
...Mark Skousen...
...of North Carolina, $10.95...
...Nat Hentoff...
...Norton, $7.95...
...It’s clear that MacDougal has to keep reminding himself that Ford is a person and not a product...
...This is a natural topic for a book, carried out better than could be'expected...
...Basic, $10.95...
...Thunder of the Captains: The Short Summer of 1950...
...A new statement on what the Fourth of July was really all about.’ “ ‘How about a new Dimension of freedom,’ I suggested...
...In all of this the author is undoubtedly right, about how to save not only the humanities but also the subject called Political Science, which desperately needs a similar opportunity...
...Without a doubt the government's one key domestic policy in this century-because of its magnitude and because of the degree of federal power it implies-the income tax is, sadly, usually discussed only in polemical or technical termsi This book, which does neither, is thus especially welcome: it's an exhaustively researched, well written, understandable, even entertaining history of the tax...
...Thus a course on punishment would use Greek tragedies, Russian novels, philosophy, anthropology, religion, and law...
...Basic, $8.95...
...Basic, $1 1.95...
...Gerald Carson...
...Even at their best, presented sympathetically, there remain telling incidents like this, from a discussion of Ford’s slogan: “ ‘I think the word “Freedom” is essential,’ Doug said...
...of California, $24.50/$5.95...
...LBJ the Way He Was...
...Harry Rositzke...
...Lawrence A. Cremin...
...They’re all short...
...Walter Kaufmann...
...LeRoy F. Harlow...
...Arlington House, $9.95...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $10...
...What Ford actually stands for is of no importance to MacDougal...
...This is an ambitious attempt to define the 1960s-its roots, its music, art, fiction, and journalism, its politics, and its consequences...
...All this is told breathlessly, in adcopy prose...
...The lesson here is that untrammeled self-indulgence does not have much to do with insight or creativity...
...We Almost Made It...
...Univ...
...The great value of this book is in its potential for disabusing readers of any lofty notions they may have had about how campaigns, politics, even government are run...
...Work, Aging, and Social Change: Professionals and the One Life-One Career Imperative...
...A Visit to Haldeman and Other States of Mind...
...The Reason for Democracy...
...Jury: The People vs...
...FSO-1...
...Seymour B. Sarason...
...The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb...
...There’s plenty of existing stuff we can use...
...Knopf, $8.95...
...The Golden Egg-The Personal Income Tax: Where It Came From, How It Grew...
...Harris Greene...
Vol. 9 • March 1977 • No. 1
