Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes Political affairs books to be published in May Addict: A Doctor’s Odyssey. James DeWitt, M.D., AI Hirshberg. Regnery, $6.95. All Star Cast: An Anecdotal History of...
...People at Work...
...all three were much tossed around on the waves of the decade...
...Norton, $9.95...
...Gwendolen M. Carter, Patrick O’Meara, eds...
...Norton, $8.95...
...It leaves the reader with the impression that all the flailings of its subjects-and, by extension, their decade-served no particular purpose and brought about no particular improvement of the world...
...Mark Lane, Dick Gregory...
...A modest and amusing memoir of his Washington years by the former Senator from Oklahoma...
...Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Brains Trust: From Depression to New Deal...
...Good Neighborhood: The Challenge of Open Housing...
...Houghton Mifflin, $7.95/$3.95...
...Laurence Learner...
...Men and Women of the Corporation...
...Rawson, $10.95...
...Loose Change...
...Code Name “Zorro”: The Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr...
...Running for President: The Carter Campaign...
...Sara Davidson...
...Revolution in the Third World: Myths and Prospects...
...Doing Better and Feeling Worse: Health in the United States...
...Gerard Chaliand...
...Allanheld, Osmun, $1 2.50/$4.9 5. The Implementation Game: What Happens After a Bill Becomes a Law...
...MIT, $17.95...
...Future Facts...
...The Fifties: The Way We Really Were...
...Norton, $10.95...
...Robert Jungk...
...Playing for Keeps in Washington...
...Eugene Bardach...
...Inter-American Foundation...
...these three women went through a great deal in pursuit of some more transcendent degree of fulfament than their parents had, and ironically ended up no more fulfded, perhaps even less so...
...American Hunger...
...The Brotherhood of Oil: Energy, Policy and the Public Interest...
...Univ...
...Preparing for the Next War: American Plans for Postwar Defense, 194145...
...Hugh Heclo...
...Games Mother Never Taught You: Corporate Gamesmanship for Women...
...JSnopf, $7.95...
...Pehr G. Gyllenhammer...
...Crowel, $13.95...
...Stephen Rosen...
...Douglas T. Miller, Marion Nowak...
...Organized crime’s growth industry is supposed to be crooked stock market deals, and an inside look at them is an interesting idea...
...Brooking, $10.95/$4.50...
...Rae Goodell...
...Basic, $13.95...
...William Gale, Ed O’Rourke, Vito Moles...
...Transatlantic Patterns: Cultural Comparisons of England with America...
...Rosabeth Moss Kanter...
...They Know How...
...Martin Schram...
...Oxford, $15.95...
...But Hellerman, while an engaging character, has trouble setting it forth understandably and convincingly...
...Stern and Day, $1 1.95...
...Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek...
...As such, Loose aange is a depressing book...
...Sara Davidson, a former freelance magazine writer, has written a detailed account of her life from high school to age 30, and of the lives of two of her sorority sisters from the Berkeley class of '64...
...Univ...
...Congress Against Itself...
...Three Women of the Sixties...
...The Unmaking of a President: Lyndon Johnson & Vietnam...
...Martin Green...
...A highly readable series of profiles of powerful Washingtonians...
...Dial, $8.95...
...The Visible Scientists...
...Henry F. Thoma, ed...
...Richard Wright...
...Fred Harris...
...Houghton Mifflin, $15...
...One of the best chapters, however, is about a recent loser, Phil Burton, who was defeated in his attempt to become majority leader of the House...
...Thomas B. Littlewood...
...Addison-Wesley, $8.95...
...Michael Hellerman, Thomas C. Renner...
...The American Touch in Micronesia...
...Kennikat Press, $12.50...
...Economics of the Environment...
...A valuable book about the relations between the political appointees and the high-level bureaucrats and how they might be improved in the interest of a more effective government...
...Robert Dorfman, Nancy S. Dorfman, eds...
...DeFending America: Toward a New Role in the Post-Detente World...
...Wall Street Swindler...
...The Compound...
...Betty Lehan Harragan...
...Paul S. Fass...
...Simon & Schuster, $5.95...
...of Documents, GPO, Wash., D. C. , $2.50...
...Norton, $12.50...
...Elliot A. Rosen...
...Southern Africa in Crisis...
...Indiana Univ., $12.50...
...Susan George...
...Michael S. Sherry...
...Basic, $12...
...Little, Brown, $10...
...John H. Knowles, M.D., ed...
...How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger...
...Potomac Fever...
...William B. Could...
...Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State...
...The American Prospect: Insights Into Our Next 100 Years...
...B. Franklin Cooling...
...Morris Milgram...
...Basic, $15...
...Richard Meister, Anne Loftis...
...Herbert Y. Schandler...
...In its anecdotal and rambling way, it conveys a lot of truth about life in Washington, especially about the part of the city that is Capitol Hill...
...Cornell Univ., $20...
...David Nevin...
...Norton, $9.95/$3.95...
...Rawson, $8.95...
...American Bureaucracy...
...Princeton, $16.50...
...Peter Woll...
...All Star Cast: An Anecdotal History of the City of Los Angeles...
...Norton, $15...
...War, Business, and American Society: Historical Perspectives on the Military-Industrial Complex...
...Macmillan, $14.95...
...Jean-Francois Revel...
...Seattle: The Life and Times of an American City...
...A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington...
...Stephen Longstreet...
...The Everyman Project: A World Report on the Resources for a Humane Society...
...Yale...
...of Chicago, $12.50...
...The Damned and the Beautiful...
...Indiana Univ., $15...
...Robert Engler...
...Columbia, $16.95...
...Doubleday, $10.95...
...Daniel Yergin...
...Theodore Draper, Paul H. Nitze, Albert Wohlstetter, et al...
...Doubleday, $10...
...Taken together, the three women's stories are meant to comprise a brief social history of the 60s...
...Black Workers in White Unions: Job Discrimination in the United States...
...Harper & Row, $8.95...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...What comes out of this book is mostly just the criminal ambience, and that’s a very old tune...
...The real revolution of the 60s seems to have been one of rising personal expectations...
...Gerald B. Nelson...
...The Totalitarian Temptation...
...Doubleday, $9.50...
...A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America's Farm Workers...
...of Notre Dame...
...translation, David Hapgood...
...Liveright, $10.95...
...Prentice-Hall, $9.95...
...Viking, $10.95...
...An Experiment in Development Assistance...
...Supt...
...The Politics of Population Control...
Vol. 9 • May 1977 • No. 3
