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The Hero of a Year Ago
An informal and unfamiliar view of the McGovern campaign.
The Washington Monthly,
May 1973, pp. 39-46
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January 1973 Issue = 10 Articles- Letters, pp. 4-5
- Pat Moynihan's Ship of Fools by Taylor Branch, pp. 6-19
- Nuclear Hijacking: Now Within the Grasp of Any Bright Lunatic by Timothy Ingram, pp. 20-28
- The Ms. Click! The Decter Anguish,The Vilar Vulgarity by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 29-37
- The Screwing of The Average Taxpayer by James Fallows, pp. 38-48
- Memo of the Month, p. 49
- The Secret Way The Rich Escape by Philip M. Stern, pp. 50-56
- Winning Back the Ethnics: Public Help for Private Schools by Charles Peters, pp. 57-61
- The Political Puzzle, p. 62
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Political Book Notes, pp. 63-66 - 15 Reviews- Bureaucracy, the Marshall Plan and the National Interest by Hadley Arkes
- The Death and Life of Malcolm X by Peter Louis Goldman
- The Defense Budget by Caspar W. Weinberger, Gene R. LaRocque, and Murray L. Weidenbaum, ...
- Elections in South Vietnam by Howard R. Penniman
- Employment Policy at the Crossroads by William Fellner
- Highways to Nowhere by Richard Hebert
- The Kennedy Promise by Henry Fairlie
- The Last Play by James Ridgeway
- Lesbian Nation by Jill Johnston
- The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar
- Not With a gun by Jean Carper
- Silent Slaughter by Joel Griffiths and Richard Ballantine
- The Truman Era, 1945-1952 by I.F. Stone
- Urban Renewal by John C. Weicher
- Vatican, U.S.A. by Nino Lo Bello
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February 1973 Issue = 14 Articles- In Praise of the Property Tax by Mason Gaffney, pp. 2-6
- Peril of the Month: Gas Supertankers by Timothy H. Ingram, pp. 7-12
- Tidbits and Outrages, p. 13
- So Hard to Remember, So Easy to Forget by William Paddock and Elizabeth Paddock, pp. 14-22
- The First Four Years, pp. 23-25
- DIA: Intelligence to Please by Patrick J. Mcgarvey, pp. 26-29
- The Prince and His Courtiers: At the White House, the Kremlin, and the Reichschancellery by Russell Baker and Charles Peters, pp. 30-39
- Memo of the Month, p. 40
- America the Featherbedded by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 41-43
- We're All Working For the Penn Central by Taylor Branch, pp. 44-51
- Let Those Hillbillies Go Get Shot by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 52-58
- The Burn Ward by Ronald J. Glasser, pp. 59-69
- The Political Puzzle, p. 70
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Political Book Notes, pp. 71-74 - 11 Reviews- American Military Commitments Abroad by Roland A. Paul
- Bureaucracy and the Public by Elihu Katz
- The Corrupt Kingdom by Joseph E. Finley
- Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems by Raoul Berger
- Investigating the FBI by Pat Watters and Stephen Gillers
- Juror Number Four by Edwin Kennebeck
- Life Insurance by Joseph M. Belth
- A Long View from the Left by Al Richmond
- Places for Learning, Places for Joy by Theodore R. Sizer
- Uncle Tom's Campus by Ann Jones
- The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin
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March 1973 Issue = 12 Articles- Letters, pp. 4-6
- The Seven Secrets of the Metroliner's Success by Walter Shapiro, pp. 7-15
- Memo of the Month, pp. 16-17
- The Political Puzzle, p. 18
- What the FDA Won't TellYou About FDS by Joseph A. Page, pp. 19-25
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 26-27
- Political Book Award, p. 28
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Halberstam, Fitzgerald, Ellsberg: The Reporter, the Poetess, the Analyst by Taylor Branch, pp. 29-36 - 3 Reviews- The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
- Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald
- Papers On the War by Daniel Ellsberg
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The Hidden Injuries of Class by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 37-42 - 1 Review- The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb
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Busting Our Mental Blocks About Foreign Aid by James Fallows, pp. 43-54 - 2 Reviews- We Don't Know How by William Paddock and Elizabeth Paddock
- Benevolent Aggression by Richard M. Farmer
- Realerpolitik: The Texts Are Getting Better by Luke Popovich, pp. 55-60
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Political Book Notes, pp. 61-66 - 12 Reviews- Bitter Wages by Joseph A. Page and Mary-Win O'Brien
- Chicanos and Rural Poverty by Vernon M. Briggs
- Defeat of an Ideal by Shirley Hazzard
- Divorce by Barbara B. Hirsch
- News From Nowhere by Edward Jay Epstein
- The Leaning Ivory Tower by Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman
- Power Over People by Louise B. Young
- The Retreat of American Power by Henry Brandon
- The Rise and Fall of the People's Century by Norman D. Markowitz
- Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed by Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.
- To Peking and Beyond by Harrison E. Salisbury
- A World Elsewhere by James Chace
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April 1973 Issue = 10 Articles- The Foreign Service as Mirror of America by James Fallows, pp. 5-14
- Tidbits and Outrages, p. 15
- The Mafia and the Mexicans: Crooked Justice from the INS by Barry Lando, pp. 16-22
- The Case for the Extended Family: Life Insurance by Urban Lehner, pp. 23-32
- Memo of the Month, pp. 33-35
- The Political Puzzle, p. 36
- The Watergate Story: Why Congress Didn't Investigate Until After the Election by Marjorie Boyd, pp. 37-46
- Decency and Loyalty: Linwood Holton Learns the President's Views by Frank Rich, pp. 47-54
- How to Keep Them Buying, Even Though They Know You're Lying by James Rowen, pp. 55-60
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Political Book Notes, pp. 61-66 - 21 Reviews- Abortion II by Lawrence Lader
- The April Game by Diogenes
- The Corporate Eunuch by O. William Battalia and John J. Tarrant
- Corporate Lib by Eli Ginzberg
- The Disaster Lobby by Melvin J. Grayson
- The Fourth World by Ben Whitaker
- Group Marriage by Larry L. Constantine and Joan M. Constantine
- In His Own Image by James F. Simon
- The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration by Vincent Ostrom
- Laughing All the Way by Barbara Howar
- Methadone Maintenance by Dorothy Nelkin
- The Next Phase in Foreign Policy by Henry Owen
- Nixon's Head by Art Woodstone
- Parties by John S. Saloma III and Frederick H. Sontag
- Philosophy of the Urban Guerilla by Donald C. Hedges and Abraham Guillen
- Postwar America, 1945-1971 by Howard Zinn
- President McGovern's First Term by Nicholas Max
- Running by Bob Greene
- The Secret Team by L. Fletcher Prouty
- We Mainline Dreams by Judianne Densen-Gerber
- West Point by K. Bruce Galloway and Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr., ...
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May 1973 Issue = 10 Articles- Letters, pp. 4-6
- We Knew What WeWere Doing When We Went Into Vietnam by Henry Fairlie, pp. 7-26
- Tidbits and Outrages, p. 27
- Waiting for Disarmament: Weapons We Can Live With-and Without by C. Robert Zelnick, pp. 28-35
- Memo of the Month, p. 36
- A Radical Proposal: Free Enterprise by Michael Rappeport and Christine Van Lenten, pp. 37-38
- The Hero of a Year Ago by Ted Van Dyk, pp. 39-46
- Meanwhile the Realities: "I Don't Walk Around With Jobs in My Pocket" by Polly Toynbee, pp. 47-59
- The Political Puzzle, p. 60
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Political Book Notes, pp. 61-66 - 19 Reviews- America and the World Political Economy by David P. Calleo and Benjamin M. Rowland
- The American Disease by David F. Musto
- The B.S. Factor by Arthur Herzog
- Changing Women in a Changing Society by Joan Huber
- The Chinese Difference by Joseph Kraft
- Good Times by Peter Joseph
- Home From the War by Robert Jay Lifton
- I.Q. in the Meritocracy by Richard J. Herrnstein
- Indispensable Enemies by Walter Karp
- One Hundred Countries, Two Billion People by Robert S. McNamara
- The Open Prison by Sol Chaneles
- The Politics of Lying by David Wise
- Public Administration as Political Process by John Rehfuss
- A Public Citizen's Action Manual by Donald K. Ross
- SDS by Kirkpatrick Sale
- The Second Crash by Charles D. Ellis
- Strategy for a Living Revolution by George Lakey
- Structural Reform of the Federal Budget Process by William A. Niskanen
- Your Right to Know by Charles W. Whalen
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June 1973 Issue = 10 Articles- Letters, pp. 4-5
- Putting the Wisdom Back Into Intelligence by James Fallows, pp. 6-17
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 18-19
- The Wall Street Lawyers in Washington by Paul Hoffman, pp. 20-30
- The Political Puzzle, p. 31
- Black and White Together is Still the Point by Walter Shapiro, pp. 32-42
- The Wife and Kids: Not the Excuse They Used to Be by Michael Rappeport and Howard Van Lenten, pp. 43-44
- Memo of the Month, p. 45
- Living Through the Boss- A Day in the Life of a Senator's A. A. by Polly Toynbee, pp. 46-60
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Political Book Notes, pp. 61-66 - 18 Reviews- American Defense Policy by Richard G. Head and Ervin J. Rokke
- The American Way of War by Russell F. Weigley
- The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
- The Charity of Nations by David Wall
- Confessions of a Corporate Headhunter by Allan J. Cox
- Contrabandista! by Evert Clark and Nicholas Horrock
- The DDT Myth by Rita Gray Beatty
- A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States by Herbert Aptheker
- Dynamics of the Party System by James L. Sundquist
- The Economic Consequences of Reduced Military Spending by Bernard Udis
- The Failure of Success by Robert Theobald
- The Fourth Year of the Nixon Watch by John Osborne
- The Future While It Happened by Samuel Lubell
- Kissinger: Portrait of a Mind by Stephen R. Graubard
- A Minority of Members by Hope Chamberlin
- Power Play by Leonard Mosley
- The Presidency in Flux by George E. Reedy
- Ride Free, Drive Free by W.H. O'Connell
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July 1973 Issue = 14 Articles- Letters, pp. 5-6
- Why the White House Press Didn't Get the Watergate Story by Charles Peters, pp. 7-15
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 16-17
- Civility, Community, Humor: The Conservatism We Need by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 18-32
- How Your Banker Does It by Paul Dickson, pp. 33-39
- Memo of the Month, p. 40
- How He Got to Do It: Bank Charters by Walter Shapiro, pp. 41-47
- A Democratic Vassal in King Richard's Civil Service by Charles Markham, pp. 48-56
- Making It' Revisited: Nader, Podhoretz, and Morris by James Fallows, pp. 57-65
- What Happens When America Runs Out of Leftovers by David Weisbrod, pp. 66-71
- Grumman Couldn't Bear It: The F-14 Story by Duane Yorke, pp. 72-79
- Beyond Boredom- A Look at What's New on the Assembly Line by Daniel Zwerdling, pp. 80-92
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Political Book Notes, pp. 93-95 - 12 Reviews- Architecture for the Poor by Hassan Fathy
- Federal Housing Subsidies by Anthony Downs
- Corporate Power and Social Responsibility by Neil H. Jacoby
- The Dance of Legislation by Eric Redman
- The Briar Patch by Murray Kempton
- The Living Presidency by Emmet John Hughes
- Death at Buffalo Creek by Tom Nugent
- The Deceived Majority by Gordon Fellman and Barbara Brandt
- Longtime Californ' by Victor G. Nee and Brett De Bary Nee
- The Fractured Family by Leontine R. Young
- The Sovereign State of ITT by Anthony Sampson
- Ward 402 by Ronald J. Glasser
- The Political Puzzle, pp. 96-98
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September 1973 Issue = 11 Articles- Letters, pp. 5-6
- Putting the President Back Into Politics by Thomas E. Cronin, pp. 7-12
- Campaign Reform: Taking the Worry Out of Reelection by Walter Shapiro, pp. 13-19
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 20-21
- Senator Baker and the Bureau Chief: Why They're Wrong About Watergate by Charles Peters, pp. 22-24
- The Case for the Family Farmer, pp. 25-33
- Memo of the Month, p. 34
- Right to Read:Lost in PR by Wallace Roberts, pp. 35-38
- The Political Puzzle, pp. 39-40
- Classification and Adjustment in a Maryland Women's Prison by Polly Toynbee, pp. 41-58
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Political Book Notes, pp. 59-66 - 13 Reviews- Amber Waves of Grain by James Trager
- America's Army in Crisis by William L. Hauser
- Broad-Based Taxes by Richard Abel Musgrave
- Campaign '72 by Ernest R. May and Janet Fraser
- The Conspiracy Against the Dollar by Peter Beter
- Diplomatic Channels by Humphrey Trevelyan
- Economics and the Public Purpose by John Kenneth Galbraith
- The Economics of Crime and Punishment by Simon Rottenberg
- Poverty and Progress by Richard G. Wilkinson
- Truth About Kent State by Peter Davies
- The War at Home by Thomas Powers
- Who Makes War by Jacob K. Javits and Don Kellermann
- Women in Prison by Kathryn Watterson
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October 1973 Issue = 12 Articles- Letters, pp. 4-5
- The Care We Need and Want by David Blumenthal and James Fallows, pp. 6-20
- The Morality of Medicine by David Ignatius, pp. 21-27
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 28-29
- A Latin-American Vietnam by Jack Hood Vaughn, pp. 30-37
- The Political Puzzle, p. 38
- After the Scandal: Picking Up the Pieces by Frank Browning, pp. 39-44
- Running for office:All You Need is an Issue by Stephen Schlesinger, pp. 45-48
- The McGovern Campaigners: Their Dirty Little Secret by Walter Shapiro, pp. 49-52
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The Great Stagflation Machine by James Fallows, pp. 53-58 - 1 Review- Inflation by Robert Lekachman
- Memo of the Month, pp. 59-60
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Political Book Notes, pp. 61-66 - 16 Reviews- The American Connection by John Pekkanen
- The Anderson Papers by Jack Anderson and George Clifford
- The Anguish of Change by Louis Harris
- Beyond the Best Interests of the Child by Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, and Albert J. Solnit, ...
- Captain America And The Crusade Against Evil by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence
- Defeated: Inside America's Military Machine by Stuart H. Loory
- Goodbye, Mr. Christian by Richard Dougherty
- Harry Dexter White by David Rees
- Old Wars Remain Unfinished by Sar A. Levitan and Karen A. Cleary
- Opening Up the Suburbs by Anthony Downs
- The Price of Vision by John Morton Blum and Henry A. Wallace
- Prisoner of Mao by Jean Pasqualini and Rudolph Chelminski
- The Saturday Night Special by Robert Sherrill
- Scandals in the Highest Office by Hope Ridings Miller
- The U.S. Intelligence Community by Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
- Why Justice Fails by Whitney North Seymour
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November 1973 Issue = 10 Articles- Meanwhile the Realities- Student Loans:How the Government Takes the Work Out of Fraud by Sylvia Kronstadt, pp. 5-14
- Moral Myopia: The New York Review and the New York Intellectuals by Suzannah Lessard, pp. 15-29
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 30-31
- ITT and Watergate: The Colson Connection by Timothy Ingram, pp. 32-36
- Rooting for the Other Team: Clientism in the Foreign Service by Roger Morris, pp. 37-45
- Memo of the Month, p. 46
- Heading the Highway Lobby off at the Overpass by David Martin, pp. 47-54
- The $12 Billion Misunderstanding: Veterans and the VA by Paul Starr, pp. 55-61
- The Political Puzzle, p. 62
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Political Book Notes, pp. 63-66 - 7 Reviews- The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse
- The Bureaucratization of the World by Henry Jacoby
- The Devil and John Foster Dulles by Townsend Hoopes
- Plowshares Into Swords by J.A. Stockfisch
- The Politics of Massive Resistance by Francis M. Wilhoit
- Promises of Power by Carl Stokes
- Riding High by Carl Solberg
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December 1973 Issue = 11 Articles- Letters, pp. 4-6
- Death on the Road: Going Beyond Nader and the Reader's Digest by James Fallows, pp. 7-23
- Shooting Down Some Myths About Gun Control by Polly Toynbee, pp. 24-31
- The Political Puzzle, p. 32
- Letting Rizzo Do the Thinking by Christopher Wren, pp. 33-38
- Thinking for Ourselves: Questions We Can Start With by Donald Graham, pp. 39-43
- Tidbits and Outrages, pp. 44-46
- What Makes Congress Run? by Norman Ornstein, pp. 47-49
- Memo of the Month, p. 50
- Kay, Otis, and Newby- They Sell Out, Too by Walter Shapiro, pp. 51-62
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Political Book Notes, pp. 63-66 - 8 Reviews- Black Power, White Control by John Hall Fish
- The Other Side of Gun Control by Robert J. Kukla
- Politics and the Housing Crisis Since 1930 by Nathaniel S. Keith
- Pornography and Sexual Deviance by Michael Joseph Goldstein
- President Nixon's Psychiatric Profile by Eli S. Chesen
- Stay of Execution by Stewart Alsop
- Superpower by Robert Hargreaves
- What Washington Said by F.M. Kail
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