POLITICAL BOOKNOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in June The Abuse of Power: The Permanent Government and the Fall of New York. Jack Newfield, Paul Dubrul. Viking,...
...Susan George...
...Jimmy Carter...
...Basic, $7.95...
...AUanheld, Osmun, $12.50...
...Ezra S. Krendel, Bernard Samoff, eds...
...Macmillan, $8.95...
...Judith M. Gansberg...
...French Democracy...
...Seabury, $8.95...
...Doubleday, $10.95...
...Irene Diamond...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in June The Abuse of Power: The Permanent Government and the Fall of New York...
...Press, $10...
...reaucrats, Politicians and Peasants in kWiico: A Case Study in Public Policy...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...Th Chinese: Portrait of a People...
...of Penrlsylvania Press...
...But the author was an officer and he was in Vietnam when there was still hope...
...Mafia Wife...
...In this book, however, Caputo, a former Marine officer who is now a reporter with The Chicago Tuibune, tells of his own experience in Vietnam in 1965-66 with enough truth to fill a large part of the gap...
...of Illinois, $15...
...Wartime...
...Robin Morgan...
...John M. Phelan...
...India: A Wounded Civilization...
...Presidio Press, $8.95...
...Edwin J. Perkins...
...What we need to complete the icture is a book written from when hope was gone and the haunting fear was that you would be the last man to die in a war you didn’t believe in...
...Robin Moore, Barbara Fuca...
...Why Nothing Seems to Work Anymore...
...The Newscasters: The News Business As Show Business...
...An interesting collection of essays examining the impact of large bureaucratic organizations on American life...
...Norton, $10.95...
...QuadranglelNew York Times, $12.50...
...Crowell, $8.95...
...Sidney Lens...
...Stanley Weintraub...
...Milovan Djilas...
...Abigail McCarthy...
...Louisiana State Univ...
...Univ...
...aimates of Hunger...
...Sarnoff An American Succ&s...
...The Carlos Complex...
...David McCullough...
...The Jewish Mind...
...Naipaul...
...Morrow, $8.95.’ Pulling Nb Punches...
...Doubleday, $6.95...
...Florence Mars...
...Defending America: Toward a New Role in the Post-Detente World...
...Grove...
...Univ...
...Scribners, $14.95...
...Sex Roles in the State House...
...Then Miller saw Jaworski alone and Bittman was not indicted...
...Benjamin Stein, Herbert Stein...
...Carl Dreher...
...Rosabeth Moss Kanter...
...Vern Countryman, ed...
...Circles: A Washington Story...
...Although we saw him on our television screen almost every night for ten years, the American soldier in Vietnam is among the least understood and most forgotten in our history...
...Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist...
...The Origins of International Economic Disorder: A Study of United States International Monetary Policy from World War I1 to the Present...
...His clients-William 0. Bittman, Richard Kleindienst, and Richard Nixon-were up to their ears in criminal conduct but never spent a day in the slammer...
...Theodore Draper et al...
...Jullian Becker...
...In Bittman’s case, for example, Doyle reveals that all the lawyers on the Watergate task force recommended to Jaworski that he be indicted...
...Ralph Nader, John Abbotts...
...The material ranges from letters to poems to articles to polemics, and its degree of radicalism waxes (“I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman”) and wanes with the passing years...
...Simon & Schuster, $8.95...
...Philip Caputo...
...Martin’s, $8.95...
...Tomorrow’s American...
...Putnams, $8.95...
...Unionizing the Armed Forces...
...Univ...
...Richard N. Farmer...
...Men and Organizations...
...A Government As Good As Its People...
...Hitler’s Children: The Story of the BaaderMeinhof Terrorist Gang...
...Basic, $12...
...Stalag: U.S.A.-The Untold Story of German POWs in America...
...Reid A. Bryson, Thomas J. Murray...
...The Race Bomb: Skin Color, ReNdice, and Intelligence...
...This useful collection of essays reporting studies financed by the Office of Naval Research includes an interesting chapter on European military unions...
...Norton, $8.95...
...While espousing wise doctrines and unwise, Morgan manages to remain consistently engaging and empathetic...
...Whether or not you agree that inflation is the chief danger facing our society, On the Brink is consistently entertaining...
...Revolution in the Third World: Myths and ~ Prospects...
...Simon & Schuster, $8.95...
...Merilee Serill Grindle...
...India Edwards...
...Univ...
...Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $10...
...Putnams, $8.95...
...Witness ia Philadelphia...
...Morrow, $12.50...
...A Rumor of War...
...Men and Women of the Corporation...
...Univ...
...Quadrangle/New York Times, $10...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $16.95...
...Christopher Dobson, Ronald Payne...
...An evenhanded account of how Johnson reached his March 1968 decision to stop the bombing and to announce that he would not seek reelection...
...Among other things it should convince you to hire Herbert Miller as your attorney whenever you’re guilty and don’t want to go to jail...
...The Douglas Opinions...
...Allen Ginsberg...
...Four Men Living the Revolution: An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba...
...William Safiie...
...Random House, $10...
...Simon & Schuster, $12.50...
...Viking, $10.95...
...Yale, $12.50...
...Criminal Russia...
...Building 6: The Tragedy at Bridesburg...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Pyljlic Trust, Private Lust: Sex, Power and Corruption on Capitol Hill, Marion Clark, Rudy Maxa...
...Putnams, $7.95...
...Not Above the Law...
...Howard Simons...
...of California, $12.50...
...The Day Before Doomsday: An Anatomy of the Nuclear Arms Race...
...Mediaworld: Programming the Public...
...A collection of 15 years of writing from one of our leading feminists...
...Full Disclosure...
...This story of a Venezuelan terrorist and of the interconnections among political terrorists around the world, as told by two English journalists, occasionally errs on the side of the shallow and the sensational but is on the whole engrossing and disturbing...
...This is a rightwing political disaster novel, co-authored by an economist who was a political disaster...
...the point of vip ew of a draftee who was there Simons’ List Book...
...Julie Nixon Eisenhower...
...The Mid-Atlantic States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Five Mid-Atlantic States and the Nation’s Capital...
...Samuel Sandmel, ed...
...Herbert Y. Schandler...
...Fred L. Block...
...The Menace of Atomic Energy...
...On the Brink...
...Valery Giscard d'Estaing...
...A George McGovern-like figure gets appointed head of the Federal Reserve, and after a huge OPEC price increase he starts vastly increasing the money supply, leading to Weimar-like inflation and the rise of an unscrupulous, demagogic political leader...
...The Unmaking of a President...
...A Woman’s Place, 1910-1975...
...Princeton, $16.50...
...Gordon Ball, ed...
...Valery Chalidze...
...Viking, $12.50...
...Contemporary Books, $9.95...
...Pantheon, $10...
...Willard S. Randall, Stephen D. Solomon...
...Little, Brown, $10...
...Ron Powers...
...Paul R. Ehrlich, Shirley Feldman...
...Alain Peyrefitte...
...Special People...
...Ruth Adam...
...James Doyle...
...Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, Susan M. Rigdon...
...Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties...
...Raphael Patai...
...of Wisconsin Press, $8.95...
...Neal R. Peirce, Michael Barone...
...Bobbs-Merrill, $15...
...of California, $14...
...How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons .for World Hunger...
...The Path &tween the Seas: The Creation of the Pahama Canal, 1870-1914...
...Random House, $10...
...War in the Wards...
...Norton, $12.95...
...Random House, $17.95...
...Gerard Chailand...
...Basic, $13.95...
...Written by the press secretary for the Special Prosecutor’s office, this is one of the best of the Watergate books...
...Simon & Schuster, $5.95...
...Simon & Schuster...
...Working It Out: 23 Women Writers, Artists, Scientists, and Scholars Talk About Their Lives and Work...
Vol. 9 • June 1977 • No. 4
