political book notes
political book notes Advertising and Free Speech. Allen Hyman, M. Bruce Johnson, eds. Lexington, $12.50. The Almanac of American Politics 1978. Michael Barone, Grant Ujifusa, Douglas Matthews....
...Addison-Wesley, $10.95...
...Democracy for the Few...
...Arlington House, $9.95...
...Barry Cole, Mal Oettinger...
...That the vast majority of the weapons are superfluous in no way inhibits the continued build-up...
...Who Should Play God...
...MIT, $14.95...
...Simon and Schuster, $7.95...
...Rodney Campbell...
...Cole is a consultant to the FCC and Oettinger a veteran broadcasting reporter...
...Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy...
...The Limits of Altruism: An Ecologist’s View of Survival...
...Leonard Reed Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged...
...Floating Exchange Rates and National Economic Policy...
...David McClintick...
...Johns Hopkins Univ...
...I broke my ass to steal $200 and I’ll probably be here forever...
...As early as 1958, when Trippet made application to sell common stock’ to the public, Home-Stake’s former secretarytreasurer alerted the Securities and Exchange Commission to “certain serious eircumstances which might cause you to deny the application to protect the investing public...
...five years after the SALT I agreement was signed the stockpile of nuclear weapons had doubled...
...Richard K. Betts...
...Dispatches...
...South Africa and US...
...Press, $12.95...
...Pantheon, $8.95...
...No one in the upper reaches of the State Department,” he writes, “likes to imagine what would happen if the troops pulled out.’’ (It’s one of the ironies of contemporary American democracy that we learn what our government really thinks only from nongovernmental sources: if pressed, the State Department, which knows a political hot potato when it sees one, would have to declare its blue-eyed innocence of any such thoughts...
...Norton, $10.95...
...Michel Foucault...
...Builders of the American Dream...
...In 1966, with Home-Stake already up to its navel in feuds and legal actions with investors, the SEC’s only suggested change in the company’s prospectus was the addition of dollar signs in certain column heads...
...The Limits of Health Reform: The Search for Realism...
...with David W. Hirst, John E. Little...
...Can You Trust Your Bank...
...Anthony Cave Brown, ed...
...The “profits” they first received came not from production but from the funds provided by later investors...
...Carlos Rangel...
...Lexington, $17...
...The Future File...
...Richard Mandell...
...The Lucian0 Project...
...Interesting background material on the Congo, the Cuban missile crisis, Bangladesh, Vietnam, the Mid-East, and the Russian and American invasions of Czechoslovakia and the Dominican Republic by the former Secretary General...
...Dutton, $16.95/$7.95...
...John D. Hanrahan, Peter Gruenstein...
...The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 24: January-August 1912...
...n imagine what $0 years would n placed Trippet on three probation and fined him McCIintick covered the Homeswindle for the Wall Street Journal...
...Ovid Demaris...
...Indiana Univ...
...Press, $25...
...Martin’s, $10...
...Chaim Bermant...
...Stealing from the Rich: The Home-Stake Oil Swindle...
...Lexington, $16...
...Arms control is a concept more acceptable to the military bureaucracies in each country, and both superpowers have used the SALT negotiations to improve their military capabilities...
...Trippet pleaded nolo contendere and could have been sentenced to 50 years...
...Donald L. Martin, Warren F. Schwartz, eds...
...Robert Heller, Norris Willatt...
...John Allen with Dianne Hall Kelly, Philip Heymann, eds...
...Andrew J. Goodpaster...
...Scribner’s $9.95...
...The Latin Americans: Their Love-Hate Relationship with the United States...
...The Soviet and American military are not only “enemies” but also each other’s strongest allies: “the madness of one bureaucracy,” Barnet observes, “sustains the other...
...Delacorte, $8.95/$1.95...
...But: “Mr...
...Ted Howard, Jeremy Rifkin...
...Marlene A. Young Rifai...
...Norton, $9.95/$3.95...
...Colin Harding, trans...
...Press, $10...
...Trippet, a Tulsa lawyer-businessman, was the genius who engineered and sustained for 19 years the biggest oil swindle ever...
...Christopher Lasch...
...Arthur S. Link, ed...
...In spite of flagrantly inflated tax write-offs claimed by investors for the “gifts” they made of worthless investments, not until 1973 did the IRS begin challenging the claims in earnest...
...And there was the federal judge...
...Medicare: The Politics of Federal Hospital Insurance...
...Decision to Prosecute: Organization and Public Policy in the Anti-Trust Division...
...Prentice-Hall, $12.50...
...Dial, $1 1.95...
...James K. Fitzpatrick...
...Persona Non Grata: An Envoy in Castro’s Cuba...
...As against disarmament, where each side agrees to reduce its capability to conduct war against the other, “arms control” purports to remove the advantage either side would gain by starting a nuclear war...
...Richard J. Barnet...
...Yale, $12.95...
...The Washington Post: The First Hundred Years...
...Knopf, $8.95...
...At the beginning of 1977, the United States had about 9,000 nuclear warheads aimed at the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union had about 3,500 aimed at the United States...
...Douglas Yates...
...A fascinating account of the last battle of the Vietnam war, told by a man who was at that time UPI’s bureau manager in Saigon, who, while his stylistic gifts are limited, is a natural storyteller...
...City Bank, the president of Time, Inc., the president of American Express Company . . . . not to mention the fellow who, under the pseudonym of Adam Smith, wrote two best-sellers on how not to get diddled on Wall Street...
...The Professor Game...
...Detente has, in fact, proceeded further than most Americans realize...
...Judith M. Feder...
...Arms control negotiations,” a former deputy director of the CIA noted, “are rapidly becoming the best excuse for escalating . . . the arms race...
...The Picture of Health: Environmental Sources of Disease...
...In Barnet’s view, unless the giants make a fundamental change in their military relationship and move from “arms control” toward comprehensive disarmament, it will explode...
...When, in September 1976, the HomeStake miscreants were finally brought to trial in Tulsa, the prosecutiqn, says the author, was “startlingly inept...
...Lexington, $13.50...
...Leonard Reed The Ungovernable City...
...The IRS comes off no better...
...Allen & Unwin, $1 6.50/$7.75...
...Viking, $10.95...
...55 Days: The Fall of South Vietnam...
...Reluctant Regulators: The FCC and the Broadcast Audience...
...Garrett Hardin...
...In the bizarre world of nuclear strategy,” Barnet writes, “‘satire is impossible...
...Raymond Price...
...U Thant...
...The scenario was old, modernized only by the tax breaks our laws offer the oil industry...
...Scribner’s, $9.95...
...an admiring prisoner asked Robert S. Trippet, who, awaiting sentencing the next day, was spending the night in jail...
...Multinational Corporations...
...Organized Medicine in the Progressive Era: The Move Toward Monopoly...
...Deregulating American Industry: Legal and Economic Problems...
...MIT, $15...
...Suzanne Weaver...
...You’ll do a few months or a year . . . . ” The prisoner, as we’ll see, was no prophet...
...But, concurrently with the arms race has emerged another aspect of the SovietAmerican relationship, those instincts for survival that peer out from under the mushroom cloud and find expression in the term “detente...
...Meanwhile, the time bomb-the increasingly volatile arms race-ticks on...
...I don’t think you liked what you saw, did you...
...Ivan Kats, trans...
...Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, $12.95...
...Soldiers, Statesmen and Cold War Crises...
...Alan Dawson...
...Particularly dismaying for governmentwatchers was the sad performance of our officials...
...When a driUing proved “disappointing,” Trippet would provide investors with engineering appraisals which evaluated their stake at triple the original investment and advise them to give their shares to charity...
...Houghton Mifflin, $15.95...
...James G. Burrow...
...Harvard Univ...
...The Economic Growth Debate: An Assessment...
...Press, $5...
...M. Evans, $10...
...Dial, $10...
...The authors are thorough reporters and engaging writers who know their subject and his city very well...
...Basic Books, $15...
...Similarly, the American problems-the tenuousness of our access to raw materials, our diminishing control of the world economy, the runaway costs of managing our government-don’t have much to do with the Soviet Union...
...It’s interesting material, but would have been improved by new thought and fact-getting -it’s really not the comprehensive look at banking that its title implies, and that’s too bad...
...800 Miles to Valdez...
...Erik P. Eckholm...
...Eight years later Pentagon officials held a briefing on the mine-shaft gap for congressional committees...
...The Cop Who Would Be King: The Honorable Frank Rizzo of Philadelphia...
...Princeton Univ...
...For the Common Defense...
...Ann Seidman, Neva Seidman...
...Lexington, $14.95...
...Basic Books, $15...
...The latest edition of one of the more valuable reference works for people seriously involved in politics and government...
...Most of these people not only invested in Home-Stake but kept augmenting their original investments when elementary investigation would have disclosed that Home-Stake was beset with increasing numbers of lawsuits charging fraud...
...Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison...
...Charles E. Lindblom...
...Between 1955 and 1974 the Home-Stake Production Company relieved investors of about $140 million...
...From the opening statement to the verdict, the Justice Department representatives’ conduct of the trial appeared to be a law-school demonstration of how not to present a oomplex fraud case to a jury of laymen...
...The Show and Tell Machine: How Television Works and Works You Over...
...Paul Dickson...
...Nor do the arms control agreements...
...Dropshot: The United States Plan for War With The Soviet Union in 1957...
...The United States, says Barnet, has come to view the Soviet troops in Eastern Europe as a guarantor of the stability of the area...
...The culmination of Dr...
...Rose K. Goldsen...
...Joseph R. Daughen, Peter Binzen...
...Michael Walzer...
...Alan Sheridan, trans...
...Assault with A Deadly Weapon: The Autobiography of a Street Criminal...
...No, your honor, I think that the experie I have had would have a big impact on . . I slept not a wink...
...Positive realities impel the two giants toward closer ties...
...Doubleday, $10...
...By that gambit, an investor in a high tax bracket could take a second deduction, greater than his original What made this hackneyed fraud so spectacular was that the victims, with rare exceptions, were wealthy and sophisticatedthe class of people for and by whom tax dodges are designed...
...Pantheon, $10.95...
...Lured by the promise of rich profits and the joys of tax avoidance, investors bought into Trippet’s driUing projects...
...Trippet, you have spent a night in jail...
...Stanley W. Black...
...Lost Frontier: The Marketing of Alaska...
...Stealing From the Rich reflects the thoroughness and sprightliness of that newspaper’s feature reporting...
...The Jews...
...Politics and Markets: The World’s Political Economic Systems...
...Forgetting about the show-biz types (Walter Matthau, Liza Minnelli, and Andy Williams, for example, each of whom was taken for $200,000 or more) whose names the daily press highlighted when the bubble burst, consider this list of patsies: Senator Jacob Javits, Dopald Kendall of Pepsi-Cola, the president of General Electric, the chairman of the board of Penn Central, the chairman of the board of International Paper Company, the chairman of the board of Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, the president of First National cost...
...Michael Parenti...
...Eli Ginzberg...
...The Artificial Creation of Life and What It Means for the Future of the Human Race...
...The verdict on the FCC is negative, mostly for the standard liberal captive-of-the-industry reasons...
...The arms escalation upon which the prosperity of the military bureaucracies of both countries depends can be rationalized only by pointing to an “enemy”-and, in describing threats that justify bigger budgets...
...the two teamed up to write the inside story of the agency, and the results are competent and complete if uninspired...
...They’ve produced a thoroughly damning account of Frank Rizzo, who emerges as a hateful, dishonest, egomaniacal, profane despot, a man with no redeeming qualities...
...Brothers in Blood...
...Little, Brown, $10...
...The Soviet need for Western technology has resulted in a growing web of economic arrangements, each new economic tie making inevitable the next...
...James Roscow, Prentice-Hall, $10...
...In neither country, to be sure, have the political leaders effectively challenged the thinking of their military bureaucracies...
...Dutton, $8.95...
...Jorge Edwards...
...The Giants: Russia and America...
...Monthly Review Press, $7.95...
...Rawson, $9.95...
...Lawrence HiU, $10/$4.95...
...he received a form letter of acknowledgement and no follow-up was made...
...Strangelove, a 1964 movie spoofing the nuclear arms race, is a hysterical warning about the ‘mine-shaft gap,’ which will allow the Soviet Union to save more of its population in a nuclear war than the United States...
...All the famous Rizzo scandals are amply covered, but perhaps more interesting is Daughen and Binzen’s description of Rizzo’s style and of his entourage, which are not familiar ground for non-Philadelphians...
...An eloquent and convincing statement of the case against war...
...A detailed account of the professionalization of medicine in the early years of this century, far less hostile to doctors than its title makes it sound...
...Times Books, $12.50...
...McGraw-HiU, $9.95...
...Basic Books, $10...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Chalmers M. Roberts...
...With Nixon...
...Well worth reading for the glimpse it gives into one of our better military minds...
...Basic Books, $15...
...Mishan...
...How in hell did you steal $40 million...
...By that time, the U. S. Treasury had lost about $75 million in tax revenues...
...Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations...
...Michael Harrington...
...Simon and Schuster, $9.95, View from the UN...
...Justice and Older Americans...
...Michael Herr...
...This is a competent and readable pulling together of the major scandals involving banks around the world over the last few years...
...E.J...
...The Vast Majority: A Journey to the World’s Poor...
...Soviet leaders understand that their real problems-China, dissidents, the restless nations under their hegemony, the diverse national entities within the Soviet Union itself, low productivity-have little to do with the United States...
...The End of Prosperity: The American Economy in the 1970s...
Vol. 9 • November 1977 • No. 9
