opposition politicians." Not un- til August 1967 did the President's counselors become sure-or force-ful-enough to convince him to request a 10 percent Vietnam War surcharge on federal income taxes. Only in June of 1968 did Congress pass it. Too little, perhaps; too late, without a doubt.
FOREIGN POLICY & DEFENSE
"In the National Interest" Arthur~rals Schlesinger,Jr., in Worldview (Dec. 1984),
P.O. ~0x1935,Marion, Ohio 43305.
In most countries, pursuit of the national int...
Andrew Kohut and Nicholas Horrock, in Public Opinion (0ct.-Nov. 1984), American Enterprise In- stitute, 1150 17th St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036-9964.
If academic stereotypes were suddenly made real, the senior members of America's military would probably resemble the maniacal General Ripper of Dr. Strangelove fame. Just how far that caricature is from the truth is revealed Kohut and Horrock, respectively president of the Gallup Organization and Newsweek correspondent.
Moderate conservatism...
nearly 2 to 1.
"Where Reaganomics Works" Henry
R. Nau, in Foreign Policy (Winter 1984/85), P.O. Box 984, Farmingdale,
N.Y. 11737.
Free trade and protectionism are the terms usually employed in de- bates over U.S. foreign economic policy. More useful words might be "globalism" and "domesticism."
According to Nau, a George Washington University political scientist and former staff member of President Reagan's National Security Council, the globalist view has long...
its brute economic power, the domesticists reasoned that if the U.S. economy "could be revitalized and steered back to price stability, market incentives, and freer trade, the world economy might be induced to follow."
Nau maintains that this approach has worked. Worldwide, inflation is down, and long-depressed economies are beginning to bloom anew. Next, says Nau, Washington should try to capitalize on its successful trade talks with Israel and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
the book's authors, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
The two business consultants published their book when the nation was mired in its deepest recession since the 1930s and when U.S. busi- nessmen were desperately trying to figure out where they had gone wrong. Notes Business Week:"The book's basic message was U.S. com- panies could regain their competitive edge paying more attention to people-customers and employees-and by sticking to the skills and values they know best. And...
the book's authors, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
The two business consultants published their book when the nation was mired in its deepest recession since the 1930s and when U.S. busi- nessmen were desperately trying to figure out where they had gone wrong. Notes Business Week:"The book's basic message was U.S. com- panies could regain their competitive edge paying more attention to people-customers and employees-and by sticking to the skills and values they know best. And...
pher Lasch, in Harper's (Nov. 1984), P.O.
Box 1937, Marion, Ohio 43306.
The nostalgic notion that "things ain't what they used to be" is often cultivated the political Right and criticized by the Left. Ironically, says Lasch, a University of Rochester historian, both sides share a de- sire to avoid taking history seriously.
Nostalgia emerged as an ideological issue during the late 1940s, when Progressive historians such as Columbia's Richard Hofstadter la- mented that Americans, buffeted...
creating new identities or inventing usable pasts." Only the "educated classes" have the luxury of believing that it can. Unfortunately, these are the very people Americans count on to come to grips with the lesson of the nation's past in charting its future.
"The Garbage Decade" William L.Garbdogy Rathje, in American Behavioral Scientist
(Sept.-Oct. 1984), Sage Publications, 275
South Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif.
90212.
"You are what you eat," goes...
his students. But the game turned serious; a team of trained research- ers has since analyzed, weighed, and catalogued household refuse in Tucson, Milwaukee, Marin County (California), and Mexico City.
One advantage of garbage research is that it uncovers what people would rather not reveal about themselves or might not even know. There is, for example, a considerable disparity between how much alco- hol people say they drink and the number of wine and liquor bottles that actually turn up in...
PERIODICALS
SOCIETY
Lamb, a psychiatrist who headed an American Psychiatric Associa- tion study of the problem, traces its origins to the early 1960s, when "deinstitutionalization" began. Scandalous conditions at state mental hospitals helped to start the process. So did new theories of treatment and 1963 federal legislation that made the mentally ill eligible for dis- ability benefits and established small community mental health cen- ters. The number of patients in state mental institutions...