Best of
Politics

1974

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York


Robert A. Caro - 1974
    Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He personally conceived and completed public works costing 27 billion dollars--the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever having been elected to office, he dominated the men who were--even his most bitter enemy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, could not control him--until he finally encountered, in Nelson Rockefeller, the only man whose power (and ruthlessness in wielding it) equalled his own.

An Autobiography


Angela Y. Davis - 1974
    The author, a political activist, reflects upon the people & incidents that have influenced her life & commitment to global liberation of the oppressed.

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - 1974
    Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. "The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times." --George F. Kennan "It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century." --David Remnick, The New Yorker "Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece. ... The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today." --Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword

Anatomy of the State


Murray N. Rothbard - 1974
    Following Franz Oppenheimer and Albert Jay Nock, Rothbard regards the state as a predatory entity. It does not produce anything but rather steals resources from those engaged in production. In applying this view to American history, Rothbard makes use of the work of John C. Calhoun.How can an organization of this type sustain itself? It must engage in propaganda to induce popular support for its policies. Court intellectuals play a key role here, and Rothbard cites as an example of ideological mystification the work of the influential legal theorist Charles Black, Jr., on the way the Supreme Court has become a revered institution.

All the President's Men


Carl Bernstein - 1974
    This is “the work that brought down a presidency— perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time, All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books).This is the book that changed America. Published just two months before President Nixon’s resignation, All the President’s Men revealed the full scope of the Watergate scandal and introduced for the first time the mysterious “Deep Throat.” Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing through headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward deliver the stunning revelations and pieces in the Watergate puzzle that brought about Nixon’s shocking downfall. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post, toppled the president, and have since inspired generations of reporters.All the President’s Men is a riveting detective story, capturing the exhilarating rush of the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history as it unfolded in real time. It is, as former New York Times managing editor Gene Roberts has called it, “maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time.”

Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century


Harry Braverman - 1974
    Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology.This new edition features an introduction by John Bellamy Foster that sets the work in historical and theoretical context, as well as two rare articles by Braverman, The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (1975) and Two Comments (1976), that add much to our understanding of the book.

Plain Speaking: an Oral Biography of Harry S Truman


Merle Miller - 1974
    Mr. Truman took the tradition of plain speaking back to Missouri with him."Fortunately for history, Merle Miller followed. In the early 1960s, as preparation for a ill-fated series of television series, Miller talked in complete frankness with the former president for hundreds of hours over several months. He also interviewed many people who had been close to Truman from his childhood in Independence, Missouri through his years in Washington. While the television programs never materialized, the book Miller composed from his unprecedented conversations offers an intimate and riveting portrait of one of America's most remarkable presidents, illuminating Truman's early political career and surprising path to the White House, as well as the critical events and momentous decisions that shaped his years in power. The subject's candid comments on the characters of Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and others add a feisty edge to the reflections and opinions that enliven this rich, revealing book. All in all, this is a rare, human, and often very funny evocation of the life and times of an American president.

Roots Of American Order


Russell Kirk - 1974
    In this now classic work, Russell Kirk describes the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth of the United States.

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism


Perry Anderson - 1974
    Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson’s highly acclaimed and influential Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes taken from the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome to fully-fledged feudalism. In the course of this study Anderson vindicates and refines the explanatory power of a Marxist conception of history, whilst casting a fascinating light on Greece, Rome, the Germanic invasion, nomadic society, and the different patterns of the evolution of feudalism in Northern, Mediterranean, Eastern and Western Europe.

Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology


Pierre Clastres - 1974
    How then could our own "societies of the State" ever have arisen from these rich and complex stateless societies, and why?Clastres brilliantly and imaginatively addresses these questions, meditating on the peculiar shape and dynamics of so-called "primitive societies," and especially on the discourses with which "civilized" (i.e., political, economic, literate) peoples have not ceased to reduce and contain them. He refutes outright the idea that the State is the ultimate and logical density of all societies. On the contrary, Clastres develops a whole alternate and always affirmative political technology based on values such as leisure, prestige, and generosity.Through individual essays he explores and deftly situates the anarchistic political and social roles of storytelling, homosexuality, jokes, ruinous gift-giving, and the torturous ritual marking of the body, placing them within an economy of power and desire very different from our own, one whose most fundamental goal is to celebrate life while rendering the rise of despotic power impossible. Though power itself is shown to be inseparable from the richest and most complex forms of social life, the State is seen as a specific but grotesque aberration peculiar only to certain societies, not least of which is our own.Not for sale in the U.K. and British Commonwealth, South Africa, Burma, Jordan, and Iraq.

Democracy for the Few


Michael Parenti - 1974
    DEMOCRACY FOR THE FEW is a provocative interpretation of American Government that you have likely not been exposed to in elementary school, high school, or other college courses, and certainly not in the mass media. This textbook shows how democracy is repeatedly violated by corporate oligopolies, but how popular forces have fought back and occasionally made gains in spite of the system. By focusing on the relationship between economic power and political power, discussing actual government practices and policies, conspiracies, propaganda, fraud, secrecy and other ploys of government and politics, this book stands apart in its analysis of how US Government works.

Power and Market: Government and the Economy


Murray N. Rothbard - 1974
    Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's edition (Auburn, Ala. ...

God, Family, Country: Our Three Great Loyalties


Ezra Taft Benson - 1974
    I bear witness that Jesus is the Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of the world, the very Son of God. He was born the Babe of Bethlehem. He lived and ministered among men. He was crucified on Calvary. He is risen-really resurrected. He has appeared to men as a glorified Eternal King, in Palestine and also in America. I bear this witness to all, but direct my remarks especially to our youth of the free world, for whom I have great hope and a fervent prayer. My text, from  Luke  in the New Testament, stands out boldly in its impressive beauty. It covers a period of eighteen years following the return of Jesus from Jerusalem to Nazareth. Except for this one rich sentence of greatest import, the scriptures for this eighteen-year period are silent: "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man."  (Luke 2:52.) Here, then, in one sentence-fourteen words-is the impressive, meaningful, and comprehensive account of eighteen years of preparation of the Son of God, the Savior and Redeemer of the world. Here, in broad outline, in one succinct sentence-four points-are given the major fields of man's activity and striving: mental, physical, spiritual, and social. Young men and women, remember, it is people, not things, that are all-important. Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next. God's purpose is to build people of character, not physical monuments to their material accumulations.

Interview with History


Oriana Fallaci - 1974
    Noted Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci interviews well-known political figures including Henry Kissenger, Nguyen Van Thieu, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, and others.

Live Not By Lies


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - 1974
    A universal spiritual death has already touched us all, and physical death will soon flare up and consume us both and our children—but as before we still smile in a cowardly way and mumble without tounges tied. But what can we do to stop it? We haven't the strength?"Read the whole essay: http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/article...

War and an Irish Town


Eamonn McCann - 1974
    The author was at the centre of events in Derry which first brought Northern Ireland to world attention. He witnessed the gradual transformation of the civil rights movement from a mild campaign for 'British Democracy' to an all-out military assault on the British state.

Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot


Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn - 1974
    From the French Revolution (and before), to the Second World War, to events in present-day Eastern Europe, Leftism Revisited traces the course of some of the most pernicious (and still widespread) ideas that have helped to poison the well of human understanding and restrict human freedom.

Drona: Valiant Archer, Supreme Teacher


Kamala Chandrakant - 1974
    Burning with anger and humiliation, Drona was filled with a desire for revenge. That was the only tragic flaw in a brave and supremely talented archer who taught the use of arms to the Kaurava and the Pandava princes.

Revolution And Evolution In The Twentieth Century


James Boggs - 1974
    In these and in a summary chapter on the dialectics of revolution the authors furnish a picture of the principal aspects of Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, and the other currents of Marxism active in the revolutions of our times. A second section is devoted to the United States, and begins with a survey of the class forces in American history from the settlement of the original thirteen colonies to the present, with special attention to the enslaved black population. Thereafter, the authors present their ideas on the objects and means of an American Revolution.Includes new introduction by Grace Lee Boggs.

Designing Freedom


Stafford Beer - 1974
    His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know." Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA. "If anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Stafford Beer everyone in management should be grateful to him for using clear and at times elegant English and even elegant diagrams." The Economist Based on the Massey Lectures, this book examines the reasons why the institutions of our society may well be failing, and opens a discussion as to what could be done. Drawing on the science of effective organization, which is his definition of cybernetics, Stafford Beer explains key cybernetic principles in words and pictures that all can understand. He concludes that our society commits more and more resources to plastering over the cracks in the system which simply reappear while freedom itself is increasingly eroded. The institutions must be redesigned, and returned to the people, to whom the scientific tools for doing this ought to belong.

Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain, Including the Civil War in Spain


Felix Morrow - 1974
    A contemporary account of the revolution and civil war in Spain in the 1930s in which the proletariat, betrayed by its Stalinist' social democratic, and anarchist leaderships, went down to defeat under the blows of an armed fascist movement.

Class Struggles in the U.S.S.R. First Period: 1917-1923


Charles Bettelheim - 1974
    

The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States


Richard J. Bonnie - 1974
    A drug policy classic reprint -- a comprehensive history of marijuana use and prohibition in the United States.

Whither France


Leon Trotsky - 1974
    

The Ordeal of Civility : Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss & the Jewish Struggle with Modernity


John Murray Cuddihy - 1974
    Cuddihy calls it the trauma of culture shock for a decolonized people. National Book Award finalist (Philosophy), 1975.

FDR's Last Year


Jim Bishop - 1974
    A monumental book that cuts through the headlines and dry reportage to create an intimate portrait of a great leader...Here is the President eager to see the fulfillment of his dreams for a troubled world...a man often sunk in apathy, weariness, and pain, yet able to resume his characteristic sprightliness in public and with cherished friends...a man sometimes vacillating in his decisions but driving himself to the end, until at last this exhausted giant was laid to rest in his beloved rose garden.

The Occult Technology of Power


Alpine Enterprises - 1974
    pamphlet

Selections from Political Writings, 1910-1920


Antonio Gramsci - 1974
    The selections in this volume, the first of two, span the period from his initial involvement in Italian politics to the "Red Years" of 1919-1920, and feature texts by Bordiga and Tasca from their debates with Gramsci. They trace Gramsci's development as a revolutionary socialist during the First World War, the impact of this thoughts concerning the Russian Revolution and this involvement in the general strike and factory occupations of 1920. Also included are his reactions to the emerging fascist movement and his contributions to the early stages of the debate about the establishment of the Communist Party of Italy.

Black Power: Three Books from Exile: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!


Richard Wright - 1974
    It speaks eloquently of empowerment and possibility, and resonates loudly to this day.Also included in this omnibus edition are White Man, Listen!, a stirring collection of Wright's essays on race, politics, and other essential social concerns ("Deserves to be read with utmost seriousness"-New York Times), and The Color Curtain, an indispensable work urging the removal of the color barrier. It remains one of the key commentaries on the question of race in the modern era. ("Truth-telling will perhaps always be unpopular and suspect, but in The Color Curtain, as in all his later nonfiction, Wright did not hesitate to tell the truth as he saw it."--Amritjit  Singh, Ohio University)

A Poetic Equation: Coversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker


Nikki Giovanni - 1974
    A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker is a lively, impassioned, and intense meeting of two literary giants. It is also a caning and yet uninhibited dialogue between two women a generation apart, a mother-daughter confrontation in a spirit of love and respect. The topics range from Vietnam, the racial struggle, the sexes, violence, and literature. Each exchange mirrors the generational and regioual temperaments, backgrounds, and philosophies of both women: for Giovanni, the cauldron of the sixties; for Walker, the Depression and World War II of the thirties and fortics. In this edition of the book a postscript by Nikki Giovanni projects the dialogue into the eighties and beyond. Margeret Walker is the author of For My People, a Volume of Verse, which won the Yale Award for Younger Poets in 1942. She is also the recipient of a Houghton-Mifflin Literary Fellowship for her novel, Jubilee, published in 1966. She recently retired as professor of English at Jackson State University where she taught for thirty years. Her biography of Richard Wright is near completion. Nikki Giovanni was nominated for the National Book Award in 1973 for Gemini. In the same year she won the Youth Leadership Award, a poll, sponsored by the Ladies Home Journal. She also received the Outstanding Achievement Award from Mademoiselle magazine. Currently, in addition to lecturing. Ms. Giovanni writes a column for the black news monthly, Encore. Among her volumes of poetry are The Women and the Men (1975), Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978), and Vacation Time (1979), a volume of children's poetry.

Black Education: Myths and Tragedies


Thomas Sowell - 1974
    

A Small Personal Voice


Doris Lessing - 1974
    ‘The novelist talks as an individual to individuals, in a small personal voice. In an age of committee art, public art, people may begin to feel again a need for the small personal voice; and this will feed confidence into writers and, with confidence because of the knowledge of being needed, the warmth and humanity, and love of people which is essential for a great age of literature.’In this collection of her non-fiction, Lessing’s own life and work are the subject of a number of pieces, as are fellow writers such as Isak Dinesen and Kurt Vonnegut. There are essays on Malcolm X and Sufism, discussions of the responsibility of the artist, thoughts on her exile from Southern Rhodesia, and a fascinating memoir of her fraught relationship with her mother.Lit throughout by Doris Lessing's desire for truth-telling, ‘A Small Personal Voice’ is both an important collection of writings by and a self-portrait of one of the most significant writers of the past century.

Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility


Kōjin Karatani - 1974
    Written at a time when the political sequences of the New Left had collapsed into crisis and violence, with widespread political exhaustion for the competing sectarian visions of Marxism from 1968, Karatani's Marx laid the groundwork for a new reading, unfamiliar to the existing Marxist discourse in Japan at the time. Karatani's Marx takes on insights from semiotics, deconstruction, and the reading of Marx as a literary thinker, treating Capital as an intervention in philosophy that could be read as itself a theory of signs. Marx is unique in this sense, not only because of its importance in post-68 Japanese thought, but also because the heterodox reading of Marx that Karatani debuts in this text, centered on his theory of the value-form, will go on to form the basis of his globally-influential work.

The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, I: Contradictions Among the People, 1956-1957


Roderick MacFarquhar - 1974
    Why did Mao Zedong launch the cultural revolution that almost destroyed all that he had worked so long and so hard to create? In his highly praised study-now a classic-Roderick MacFarquhar seeks to answer that question by examining the politics, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.

Max Weber and German Politics, 1890-1920


Wolfgang J. Mommsen - 1974
    Wolfgang J. Mommsen shows the important links between these seemingly conflicting positions and provides a critique of Weber's sociology of power and his concept of democratic rule. First published in German in 1959, Max Weber and German Politics appeared in a revised edition in 1974 and became available in an English translation only in 1984. In writing this work, Mommsen drew extensively on Weber's published and unpublished essays, newspaper articles, memoranda, and correspondence.

The Permanent War Economy: American Capitalism in Decline


Seymour Melman - 1974
    

Democracy and its Discontents


Daniel J. Boorstin - 1974
    s/t: Reflections on Everyday America

Recognitions: Studies on Men and Problems from the Perspective of the Right


Julius Evola - 1974
    Distilling the work of a lifetime, these essays, despite the great diversity of their subjects, all depart from Evola’s basic and intransigent principles. From a consideration of specific personalities, such as Donoso Cortés, Vilfredo Pareto, Joseph de Maistre, Metternich, Michelstaedter, and Henry Miller, to the investigation of an entire series of problems, such as the “revolution from the heights,” the “twilight of the East,” the myth of the West, political versus biological youth, and the emergence of the Fifth Estate, this book also includes doctrinal analyses of Zen Buddhism, the so-called Left-Hand Path, the “myth of the future regality,” neo-realism, and the “fetish for magic” — analyses which delve atimes also into the past, as in the evocation of Emperor Julian, the indication of the significance which the Sibylline Books had in Ancient Rome, and the investigation into the mysteries of Mithras. The material herein is wide and various, but in all cases of perennial interest, and Evola’s treatment brings essential normative values to the fore — values which might serve for the interior and spiritual formation of a new generation.

Discriminations: Essays And Afterthoughts


Dwight Macdonald - 1974
    In his last collection of writings, the late Dwight MacDonald here casts a penetrating gaze on such diverse phenomena as Hemingway, the Constitution, George Orwell, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, the Chicago Conspirarry Trial, Hannah Arendt, Egypt, The Warren Report, Norman Cousins, Vietnam, the Columbia Student Strike of 1968, and Marshall McLuhan.

Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775


Richard B. Sheridan - 1974
    

Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition


George Saunders - 1974
    Accounts by veterans of the struggle in the 1920s and early 1930s to continue Lenin's revolutionary course, and by leaders of the opposition movement of the 1970s.

Facts about the Presidents


Joseph Nathan Kane - 1974
    (The jacket shows the subtitle as From George Washington to George W. Bush; the title page shows A Compilation of Biographical and Historical Information.) It presents an overview of the US executive office and data concerning the biographical backgrounds and terms of the 42 presidents to date. Also detailed are their elections, inaugurations, congressional sessions, Vice Presidents, Supreme Court and cabinet appointments, and administration highlights. A portrait/photograph and a list of books for further reading are provided for each (so far) man. The previous edition was published in 1993. Kane, an expert in the field of American history was joined by editors Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell for this edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate


Barry Sussman - 1974
    It is a dramatic case study of tenacious reporting and suspenseful twists and turns in the political crime of the century. John Dean, Nixon s White House counsel, said ten years after the break-in, When people ask me which book they should read to understand Watergate, I recommend this one Serious Watergate students report this is the best overview of the subject. I heartily agree. Anyone who wants to understand Watergate, and not make a career of it, should read The Great Coverup." (Reviews and excerpts are here: http: //www.watergate.info/sussman/.)A key Nixon goal was to limit the Watergate investigation to the break-in alone, making it appear to be little more than politics as usual. But by September, 1973, as Sussman, who was the Washington Post s special Watergate editor, spells out, Watergate was clearly the ultimate in political crimes Under Nixon the CIA had been dragged into domestic affairs; the investigation and findings of the FBI had been subverted; the Justice Department had engaged in malicious prosecutions of some people and failed to act in instances where it should have; the Internal Revenue Service had been used to punish the President s alleged enemies while ignoring transgressions by his friends and by the President himself; the purity of the court system had been violated; congressmen had been seduced to prevent an inquiry into campaign activities before the election; extortion on a massive scale had been practiced in the soliciting of illegal contributions from the nation s great corporations; the President had secretly engaged in acts of war against a foreign country and agents of the President were known to have engaged in continued illegal activities for base political ends.Soon afterward Nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him, the first act in the Saturday Night Massacre, and a few days after that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in an ominous cold war message, announced that American armed forces had been put on alert because of Soviet troop and military equipment movement. It was to some the most serious incident since the Cuban missile crisis, but to others a ruse, a crude attempt to get support for a President in a time of crisis.The Great Coverup was named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times when first published. Wrote David Halberstam of Sussman: "From the start, the Post was thus unusually lucky. It had the perfect working editor at exactly the right level." In their book, Woodward and Bernstein noted that Sussman was given prime responsibility for directing the Post's Watergate coverage, and added: Sussman had the ability to seize facts and lock them in his memory, where they remained poised for instant recall. More than any other editor at the Post, or Bernstein and Woodward, Sussman became a walking compendium of Watergate knowledge, a reference source to be summoned when even the library failed. On deadline he would pump these facts into a story in a constant infusion, working up a body of significant facts to support what otherwise seemed like the weakest of revelations. In Sussman s mind, everything fitted. Watergate was a puzzle and he was a collector of the pieces.If there was a politics as usual aspect to Watergate, Sussman writes, it was in the help Nixon got from members of both political parties. Therein lies one of the book s many lessons: Watergate would have been brought to a close much sooner except for the help powerful men on Capitol Hill extended to their President. "

The Incredible Bread Machine


Susan Love Brown - 1974
    Theo Kamecke was director and cameraman for the film. It is a commentary on Capitalism. It is about a man who invents a machine for producing bread very cheaply, but is punished by the government for his success.

Without Cloak or Dagger: The truth about the new espionage -


Miles Copeland Jr. - 1974
    Covers everything: recruitment, training, case officers, desk officers, security officers, cutouts, analysts, the difference between intelligence officers and spies, dummy corporations, front organizations, the use of journalists and academics, difference between intelligence and espionage (and counter-intelligence and counter-espionage), the difference between intelligence gathering and law enforcement (and why their goals often conflict), organizational structures of intelligence agencies, career path of a typical CIA employee, brief history of the OSS and CIA. If you want to know what spying IS, and HOW it works, this book is a great start.

What I Think.


Adlai E. Stevenson II - 1974
    

The World of George Washington


Richard M. Ketchum - 1974
    It shows the statesman side, the soldier side and more of this first president.

The Russian Tradition


Tibor Szamuely - 1974
    This analysis of Russian history traces the essential features of Revolutionary Russia back to medieval times when authoritarian rule first became a prerequisite of survival and is intended as a contribution to our understanding of the Soviet Union.

Herblock Special Report


Herbert Block - 1974
    A true American institution, Herblock has been satirizing the powerful, the smug, and the hypocritical for more than fifty years. Herblock is filled with the wit, candor, and cartoons that have earned their author many awards, including the Franklin Roosevelt Freedom Medal.From coining the term "McCarthyism" to cartoons attacking racism, Herblock has played an integral role in our times. Here he turns his thoughts and pen on Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam, the civil rights struggle, Iran-Contra, and much more. This trade-paper edition includes a new chapter on the tumultuous Clinton presidency and the Gingrich Congress, and thirty new cartoons.

Speeches by Tony Benn


Tony Benn - 1974
    The principle of choice has been to show Tony Benn's main political position and its development.

A Long Way, Baby: Behind the Scenes in Women's Pro Tennis


Grace Lichtenstein - 1974
    The author reports on the women's tour during the 1973 season, with a focus on Billie Jean King.

Thunder at Sunset


John Masters - 1974
    An ancient state long linked by treaty of protection to the British Crown. Brigadier David Jones is the new officer commanding British forces in Mingora, at what proves to be a time of acute crisis. The aged Queen cannot live for long, and Communist terrorists are preparing invasion and rebellion. The British presence is more critical now than ever. But David, having to deal on his arrival with a mutiny in his command, is confronted with the realities of his government's policy of retreat 'East of Suez': the century-and-a-half-long treaty is to be abrogated unilaterally and the British troops withdrawn. For Mingora, that will mean certain disaster. But does David's duty lie to his civil superiors—immediately to Sidney Wilson, the Resident—or to the people of Mingora ? And how far is his vision of his duty clouded by Princess Kumara, the heir to the throne, with whom he has fallen deeply in love? 'Thunder at Sunset' is a thrilling historical novel that deals with death, duty and honor.

Cultural Revolution and Industrial Organisation in China


Charles Bettelheim - 1974
    

Sieg Heil! An Illustrated History of Germany from Bismarck to Hitler


Stefan Lorant - 1974
    This book is an illustrated history of Germany from Bismarck to Hitler.

The End of a Presidency


The New York Times - 1974
    

Abolitionists: The Growth of a Dissenting Minority


Merton Lynn Dillon - 1974
    Surveys the activities and ideologies of antislavery groups and leading abolitionists in all regions of the United States, from the American Revolution to the Civil War, and assesses their impact.

Comrade George: An Investigation Into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson


Eric Mann - 1974
    

Madness Network News Reader


Sherry Hirsch - 1974
    If so, you have heard the underlying message delivered with the 'treatment': The 'patient' is mad; no longer a valid, responsible individual, but an invalid, irresponsible one. You may also know that the role people labeled crazy are forced to play once the psychiatric system has a firm hold on them is really that of an acquiescent prisoner.If you don't know about these things, you should read this book. If you do know, you will find some or all of your suspicions confirmed here. The 'Reader' is a collection of works written by people who have experienced first-hand that kind of 'help'. They have recognized their needs and the needs of their friends and family which have not been met by the system.'Madness Network News Reader' is an outgrowth of 'Madness Network News', a newsletter designed to bring together and disseminate information about the psychiatric system and alternatives to it. The 'Reader' is designed so you can pick it up and browse at any point. Section 1 gives you an inside look at the Madhouse as described by patients and workers, and in some cases people have been both. Section II talks about the Cure (or treatments) and discusses the politics of hospitalization. Section III, the Resistance, is about the embryonic movements to change the system and contains pieces on Robert Laing and psychiatry and the law, and arun-down on the legal and rights organizations operating around the country. The book ends with letters from our readers and members of the madness network.

Pronatalism: The Myth of Mom & Apple Pie


Ellen Peck - 1974
    

Confrontation: The Middle East and World Politics


Walter Laqueur - 1974
    The fourth Middle East war, called the Yom Kippur War by the Israelis, was nicknamed "Operation Spark" by the Arabs. It sparked off a crisis in détente. The eclipse of Western Europe. A world energy shortage. The first face-to-face peace negotiations between Arab and Israeli. And opened a new phase in the struggle for the Middle East.

Tupamaros


Carlos Wilson - 1974
    An important contribution to the understanding of the politics and significance of this powerful force in Latin America, and shows how the revolutionary tactics of Tupamaroism are being utilised by urban freedom fighters throughout the world.

Freedom, Anarchy and the Law


Richard Taylor - 1974
    What principle(s) should guide us in our quest? Recognizing that government is a coercive force, what restrictions could be placed upon the power of the state without rendering it impotent? Can individual freedom of expression be conciled with the actions of social groups which seek to impose their will on others? Should government's power be used to protect individuals from the consequences of their own freely chosen actions, especially when these consequences impact only upon the individuals themselves? What is the appropriate scope and range of the government's protective powers; to what lengths may a political regime go to protect its citizenry?Professor Taylor confronts these complex questions with clarity, candor and conviction. His analytic mind slices through tangled issues to expose the core of each problem. He argues forcefully for the position that effective government is minimal government. The primary function of political regimes should be to protect citizens from one another and from outside enemies. Beyond this basic role each additional exercise of the state's coercive power must be carefully scrutinized.

The Victoria Woodhull Reader


Victoria Claflin Woodhull - 1974
    

Arab Nationalism: An Anthology


Sylvia Kedourie - 1974
    

Muscle And Blood


Rachel Scott - 1974
    One aspect Scott herself merely notes is the way the bonus system and the 1970's speedup make workers ignore safety insofar as safety slows them up. This three-year Ford Foundation funded study --relying more on interviews than tabulations --ably sketches the size and the pain of the slaughter but unlike Emma Rothschild in Paradise Lost (1973), for example, Scott does not press for the contextual grasp of technological and financial developments (or non-developments) which would locate the investigation in something more than abstract profiteering.

The Ax Within (Modern Scholarship on European History)


Roland Sarti - 1974
    s/t: Italian Fascism in Action12 essays on the rise of Italian Fascism Italy during the '20's & 30's:AcknowledgmentsNote on the SelectionFascism Between Legality & Revolution 1922-24 Giuseppe RossiniFascism & the Church 1922-25 Francesco Margiotta BroglioThe Fascist Militia & the Army 1922-24 Giorgio RochatFascism in Italy: The 2nd Wave Adrian LyttletonFrom the Liberal State to the Fascist Regime: The 1st Steps Renzo De FeliceThe Rise of the Fascist State 1926-28 Alberto AquaroneFascist Reforms & the Industrial Leadership Roland SartiThe Living Standards of Italian Workers 1929-39 Cesare VannutelliThe Economic & Political Background of Fascist Imperialism Enzo SantarelliFascist Imperialism & Racism Luigi PretiPublic Opinion in Italy Before the Outbreak of WWII Alberto AquaroneNotesBibliographical NoteIndex

Race and Authority in Urban Politics: Community Relations and the War on Poverty


J. David Greenstone - 1974
    In a series of lively chapters, Greenstone and Peterson show how the coalitions that formed around the community action question developed not out of electoral or organizational interests alone but were strongly influenced by prevailing conceptions of the nature of authority in America. The book stresses the way in which both machine and reform structures affected the ability of minority groups to organize effectively and to form alliances in urban politics. It considers the wide-ranging critiques made of the Community Action Program by conservative, liberal, and radical analysts and finds that all of them fail to appreciate the significance and intensity of the racial cleavage in American politics.

Truth and Ideology


Hans Barth - 1974