political book notes
political book notes Adaptation to Life. George E. Vaillant. Little, Brown, $9.95. Adlai Stevenson. John Bartlow Martin. Doubleday, $15. The first volume of this biography, published last year,...
...Leonard Reed...
...Gary Paulsen...
...The tips are pretty obvious, but the tone in which they’re given is endearing...
...James R. Leutze...
...Success...
...In other words, Korda sketches out at great length a kind of success that’s totally without substance, achieved through rapt attention to form instead of content and savored for its accouterments only...
...The five Rockefeller brothersJohn 111, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, and David-cooperated completely with Moscow in his researching of this family history, and Moscow now obviously sees the brothers as they see themselves...
...Simon & Schuster, $9.95...
...Oxford, $1 1.95/$3.95...
...Michael Korda...
...of Illinois, $10...
...David C. Baum Memorial Lectures...
...of North Carolina, $17.95...
...James T. Baker...
...In Search of the Silent South: Southern Liberals and the Race Issue...
...Here’s a classic example of how a writer can be subtly corrupted by his sources...
...Carving out permanent jobs for themselves becomes more important than attaining the movement’s goals...
...Honor the Promise: America’s Commitment to Israel...
...Minnesota: A History...
...Which, says Brodeur, puts the fox in charge of guarding the chicken coop and makes test animals of us all...
...Norton, $10.95...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...Putnam, $12.95...
...Nathan Irvin Huggins...
...It’s a very detailed, well written study that concludes Southern liberals weren’t all that liberal, at least by Northern standards-they advocated understanding but not necessarily integration, and wanted above all for Southerners to work things out among themselves without any interference from outsiders...
...Little, Brown, $12.50...
...Jonathan Steele...
...Collier and Horowitz seem not to have talked to the brothers at all, but instead to have gotten their information from their rebellious children...
...Big Business and the Mass Media...
...Crowell, $7.95...
...Doubleday, $10...
...C.H.S...
...Pantheon, $12.95...
...Another short but wise book about bureaucracy by the author of Are Government Organizations Immortal...
...But by completely ignoring matters like the quality of one’s work as factors in success, Korda creates the impression that he’s talking down to his readers-he must know that you have to produce to make it, but the ambitious dreamers who make up his audience can be conned into believing it’s just the cut of your suit...
...Abingdon, $8.95...
...Norton, $10.95...
...Clearing the Air...
...Dan J. Forrestal...
...Shall We Tell the President...
...that 16 American women who served in Moscow developed breast cancer...
...in their world, everyone who has the right badges is automatically good...
...The Economic War Against the Jews...
...by his telling, you’d guess that his making it has been a result not of guessing right on authors but of getting the right offices, going to the right places for lunch, and wearing the right clothes...
...Norton, $12.95...
...Sonny Grosso, John Devaney...
...And that wasn’t the end: their fathers were all helicopter pilots...
...Bargaining for Supremacy: Anglo-American Naval Collaboration 1937-1941...
...William Sloane Coffin...
...Helicopter pilots fly at low altitudes where the microwave emissions are heaviest...
...Howell Raines...
...PrenticeHall, $8.95...
...Jayewardene...
...Lexifigton, $13...
...Edmund Wilson...
...Roy A. Medvedev, ed...
...Economic Regulation and the Public Interest: The Federal Trade Commission in Theory and Practice...
...As the government’s largest user of microwave, the Defense Department funds the research to determine their dangers...
...In 1971, an advisory council to the President warned that power levels in American cities, industries, and homes may already be biologically significant and the population at risk “may well be the entire population...
...Clyde W. Burleson...
...Ron Shaffer, Kevin Klose, with Alfred E. Lewis...
...Among the facts that subsequently emerged were that the Soviets had irradiated the embassy as early as 1962 but the State Department had kept that information from embassy employees . . . that Ambassador Walter J. Stoessel was suffering from bleeding of the eyes and from a blood disease akin to leukemia (he has since been transferred from Moscow) . . . that two of his predecessors, Ambassadors Bohlen and Thompson, had died of cancer...
...Prentice-Hall, $8.9 5. Letters on Literature and Politics: 1912-1972...
...The Economics and Politics of Racial Accommodation: The Japanese of Los Angeles, 1900-1942...
...Westminster, $3.95...
...the material he has gathered from black leaders, white liberals, segregationists, and reporters is eloquent and evocative...
...but new weaknesses appear-he often seems querulous and indecisive...
...Brothers in Blood: The International Terrorist Network...
...Civil Liberties and Civil Rights...
...statistically, there should have been nQ more than four...
...The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business...
...Desperado...
...Worse , Korda’s-indeed, these days America’s-brand of success is missing two crucial components...
...Allan P. Sindler...
...Norton, $12.95...
...Univ...
...The latest product of the continuing effort to uncover a noble Southern tradition, this book looks at a variety of journalistic-literary-academic figures who stood up for racial justice in the South during the first half of this century...
...Alvin Moscow...
...Peter B. Peacock, head of the research team and chairman of the University of Alabama’s Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, suspected that the causative factor was microwave radiation...
...Cartoons by Tony Auth...
...Norton, $8.95...
...Guilty Until Proven Innocent...
...Norton, $8.95...
...The People Shapers...
...Farm: A History and Celebration of the American Farmer...
...Howard Ball...
...Whether the Russians zapped the Embassy to foil American eavesdropping equipment, as they said, or for other reasons is unclear...
...The first volume of this biography, published last year, revealed that Stevenson was anti-Semitic, anti-black, a mother’s boy, a snob, and a womanizer...
...T. N. Dupuy...
...it’s no better or worse than the general run of Washington novels...
...for ,example, microwave ovens sold in the United States are permitted by law to leak up to five milliwatts per square centimeter500 times more than the Russian standard allows...
...Black Odyssey: The Epic Story of the Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery...
...In a recent issue of Newsweek, Norman Podhoretz acclaimed the “return of success” from its sixties disfavor (which Podhoretz greatly exaggerates), and it’s certain he, Korda, and the other leading advocates of making it could get together over a sixcourse lunch at the Four Seasons and have a nice talk about how wonderful it is that success is back...
...Victor J. Stone, ed...
...New Republic Books, $8.95...
...Dial, $8.95...
...A useful academic study of public-interest groupswho works for them, how they get their money, and what they do...
...Putnam, $12.95...
...A Genius for War: The German Army and General Staff, 1807-1945...
...Putnam, $9.95...
...A smattering of the microwave rollcall would include almost 1,000 television s 15,000 diathermy machines, several microwave ovens, powerful broadcasting satellites, police radar guns and your automatic garage door opener...
...Arlington House, ?8.9 5; The British Revolution, 1880-1939...
...Poor People’s Movements...
...of California, $2.95...
...Against All Enemies...
...Raoul Berger...
...Another Washington novel...
...Random House, $8.95...
...Bernard Ruben, et al...
...History of Ideas on Women...
...Herbert Kaufman...
...Macmillan, $8.9 5. Inside East Germany: The State That Came in From the Cold...
...Yourself: Get Rich With Your Own Corporation...
...Thinking Big: The Story of the LOS Angeles Times, Its Publishers, and Their Influence on Southem California...
...How to Get Invited to the White House...
...The breaking of the news in February 1976 that the American embassy in Moscow was behg subjected to microwave radiation by the Soviets may have ignited the first widespread public concern about the microwave danger (Russian knowledge of that danger makes their conduct doubly bizarre...
...The Samizdat Register...
...James A. Ogilvy...
...success to Korda means getting over worrying about the moral content of what you do (“Morality has very little to do with success...
...James C. Humes...
...of Illinois, $6.95...
...Paul Brodeur...
...The lunch might be spiced up by a little argument over what, exactly, success is-Podhoretz and his wife, Midge Dector, seem to think it’s professional degrees and impressive titles, while Korda tends more toward perquisites...
...Brookings...
...Robert F. Drinan...
...Rabbi: The American Experience...
...Pantheon, $8.95...
...Houghton Mifflin, $9.95/$4.95 Beyond the Crisis...
...As Korda tells it, he was languishing in a publishing house, reading unsolicited manuscripts and writing voluminous comments on them that nobody read, when one day a young man came by, introduced himself, and set Korda aright...
...that, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the cancer rate among Americans in the Moscow embassy was the highest in the world...
...Many Dimensional Man: Decentralizing Self, Society and the Sacred...
...Alfred D. Chandler, Jr...
...Unchosen Presidents: The Vice-president and Other Frustrations of Presidential Succession...
...Ovid Demaris...
...Still, his arguments during the Cuban missile crisis may have provided an essential counterweight to the hawks...
...Faith, Hope and $S,OOO-The Story of Monsanto: The Trials and Triumphs of the First 75 Years...
...Together, the two of them-both now running publishing houses-turned Korda’s desk around so that it faced out instead of in, and, Korda says, “nothing was ever the same again...
...Alan Stone...
...The Penalty of Death: The Canadian Experiment...
...Civil rights has been strangely ignored in the seventies, a decade otherwise given to retrospection, but maybe this book will help turn the tide...
...It’s also of no matter whether what you do is interesting or enjoyable-if you’re an engineer in your soul but the way to success is in sales, Korda would have you move...
...The Rockefeller Inheritance...
...Inc...
...Lexington, $16.50...
...Jeffrey M. Berry...
...Kennikat, $9.95...
...Murder at the Harlem Mosque...
...Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward...
...Morton Sosna...
...The Soviet Union has conducted such studies and its precautions are far more broad than ours...
...Robert Cassidy...
...Urizen, $12.95...
...Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $8.95...
...Government and the Mind...
...Utah: A History...
...Surprise...
...This month’s White House thriUer is about an embattled President who is fighting off a political challenge from his own Vice President and starting a war to protect our interests in Bolivia...
...My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered...
...Microwave usage on a large scale began during World War I1 with radar, which found the distance to targets by bouncing microwaves off them and timing the interval between the outgoing and returning signals...
...As a coda to this latest self-help manual, Michael Korda recounts the story of his first hesitant step down the road to success...
...Harper 8z Row, $15...
...Viking, $8.95...
...Crown, $8.95...
...The brothers, in MOSCOW~tSe lling, are deeply religious dogooders, simple and unostentatious, natural leaders of our society...
...Harvard, $18.50...
...Oxford, $8.95...
...The Jennifer Project...
...Univ...
...As a result, although Moscow has done his research assiduously and set forth the facts in great detail, the book is fatally marred by a glowing, almost sycophantish tone...
...Nonetheless, the quality of what you do-moral or otherwiseconcerns none of these people...
...Scribners, $9.95...
...It’s a good bet, by the way, that Jimmy Carter’s ascendance will spawn more of this genre-if Carter has Southern roots, they’re clearly not in the white-supremacist ethic that has traditionally defined the region...
...Viking, $8.95...
...The Bo e. John D. E. Kreuttner...
...Rosemary Agonito...
...Nicholas Lemann Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church, Frederick Sontag...
...Putnam, $15...
...William E. Lass...
...Behind the Lines...
...Charles S. Peterson...
...Norman Birnbaum, ed...
...Grace Lichtenstein...
...How the Lawmen Conned the Thieves...
...A collection of interviews, owing much in conception to Studs Terkel, about the civil rights movement...
...Historians in coming years will probably busy themselves searching elsewhere for Carter’s political and intellectual forebears...
...Univ...
...Litigation, 1973-1974...
...the moral obligation bonds that helped bankrupt New York were “a smashing success...
...Jeffrey Archer...
...When he quotes various exemplars of success, they’re always “looking out from the back seat of his c hau f feur -driven C adillac limousine,” “lunching in his private dining room,” or “waving around the huge office which is now his...
...Houghton Mifflin, $10.95...
...Surprise...
...A valuable study that shows these movements are often thwarted by leaders who, instead of seizing the moment when passions are high, dissipate energy in organization: building and the struggle for power...
...A breezy collection of bits of advice on how to bluster your way into the inner circles of chic just tongue-in-cheek enough to be bearable...
...Putnam, $8.95...
...Assuming, as Korda does, that the path upward now lies exclusively through the management ranks of large organizations, some of his tips about how to impress people are probably valid...
...Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948...
...Donald S. Connery...
...Sometimes the bending-over-backwards in their favor is embarrassing: for instance, Nelson’s monumentally hideous Albany Mall is “spectacularly beautiful and aesthetically pleasing...
...62 Red Tape...
...Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment...
...Oxford, $14.95...
...Vance Packard...
...Robert Rhodes James...
...Philip Gordis...
...The Zapping of America: Microwaves, Their Deadly Risk and the Cover-up...
...Murray Polner...
...Further investigation yielded the astonishing all 17 cases had been delive hospital at Fort Rucker...
...Equally unclear is whether the State Department kept the facts of irradiation from its employees and the public out of some dopey eoncern for its “detente” policy, fear of lawsuits by enraged employees, or because of the secrecy with which the government surrounds microwaves...
...Robert J. Donovan...
...Knopf, $17.95...
...Princeton, $20/$5.95...
...Columbia, $12.95...
...Lobbying for the People: The Political Behavior of Public Interest Groups...
...Once to Every Man...
...Joseph Tussman...
...Random House, $10...
...A Southern Baptist in the White House...
...Industrial uses of microwave run the gamut from precooking bacon to drying tobacco...
...Elliott Roosevelt, James Brough...
...Robert Gottlieb, Irene Wolt...
...Only the last vice reappears in this second volume, which covers the years from 1953 through Stevenson’s death in 1965...
...Judith H. McQuown...
...Doubleday, $14.95...
...his handling of the Attica uprising was “an unfortunate but successful venture...
...Prentice-Hall, $14.95...
...Harvard, $15...
...Raines correctly perceives that the movement changed the South markedly and permanently...
...Atheneum, $12.95...
...that among embassy personnel given blood tests, the average lymphocyte (a white blood corpuscle) count was 40-percent higher than in other foreign service personnel . . . that State Department tests for genetic damage conducted on employees returning from Moscow found chromosomal breaks in significant numbers (the Department did not tell the employees the object of the tests...
...Mother R: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Untold Story...
...Cornell, $14.50...
...To be a little unfair, his prescriptions would work as well in Nazi Germany as in our country...
...This book makes an interesting contrast to Peter Collier and David Horowitz’s The Rockefellers, published last year...
...Eut, strangely, there has been virtually no systematic investigation in the United States of the effect of microwave radiation on people who have been exposed to it...
...Since then, a phenomenal growth has taken place in devices that generate microwaves, some in small, some in powerful doses...
...But plans to conduct a thorough study were thwarted: the Army chose not to cooperate...
...Elena Wilson, ed., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $20...
...Priscilla MacMillan...
...For almost as long as we have been using microwaves, evidence has been accumulating that they pose biological dangers such as cataracts, cancer and genetic damage...
...Ervin S. Duggan, Ben J. Wattenberg...
...As a result their book accentuates the negative as much as MOSCOW~aSc centuates the positive-and incidentally, it’s much more believable...
...Daniel Schorr...
...In 1971, a team of University of Alabama researchers studying birth defect statistics among white children in two Alabama counties came across a curious fact: from July 1969 .to November 1970, 17 children had been born with clubfoot...
...John Modell...
...Although Korda discusses his own success throughout this book, it’s always in that kind of anecdote...
...And he was right about Vietnam earlier than most statesmen of his generation...
...Fort Rucker supported a heavy concentration of radar...
...Manna and Lee...
...How to Stay Ahead Financially...
...n e Zapping of America is an important book not only for the valuable controversy it will provoke about microwaves and their effects, but also because it challenges the objectivity of any research by government agencies with too great a vested interest in the results...
...Univ...
...What Every Man Should Know About Divorce...
...Walter Henry Nelson, Terence Prittie...
Vol. 9 • October 1977 • No. 8
