I NEVER WANTED TO BE VICE-PRESI–
DENT OF ANYTHING: An Investigative
Biography of Nelson Rockefeller, by
Michael Kramer and Sam Roberts.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $12.95
Kramer and Roberts lay bare the intri·
cate relationships behind Nelson Rocke·
feller's awesome power; his
tabula rasa
political personality that easily transcends
conservative and liberal philosophies.
This book is an account of enormous
wealth and its potential for achieving the
most powerful political position in the
world.
INSTEAD OF EDUCATION: Ways to
Help People
Do
Things BeHer, by John
Holt. DuHon, $8.95
Since we learn by doing, says Holt, we
must find ways of turning out whole soci·
ety into a genuine place for learning. As
opposed to positive learning processes,
education is a function of compulsory
schooling, which Holt regards as among
the most authoritarian of all the inventions
of man-and one which actually prevents
positive learning. Given this negative view
of schools, though, Holt has some inter–
esting and sympathetic advice for teach–
ers, for people who want to
i;.g
teachers,
for parents, and for thoughtful people
interested in the basic purposes of an
educational system.
THREE JOURNEYS: An Autobiography,
by Paul Zweig. Basic Books, $8.95
The three journeys described in this
illuminating autobiographical account of a
young poet's life take us through a mod–
em city, into the desert, and finally to the
feet of a holy man. In his "Automyth–
ology," Zweig has given form to the pro–
cess by which we all find those themes
which link and give meaning to the other–
wise disconnected events of our lives.
LENIN IN ZURICH, by Alexander SoImen–
Itsyn, translated by H.T. Willets. Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, $8.95
Lenin in Zurich
chronicles Lenin's frus–
trating exile in Switzerland, from his arrest
in Cracow and subsequent flight to Zurich
at the outbreak of World War I, to his de–
parture for Russia in 1917. Solzhenitsyn
examines the private man as well as the
familiar public figure, concentrating on
facets of Lenin's personality and behavior
that have been glossed over in most other
accounts. Solzhenitsyn has set himself
the task of establishing the truth of Rus–
sia's earty revolutionary years and of
probing the character of the man who had
such an indelible impact on his country's
fate .
NOTES FOR THE TWO-DOLLAR WIN–
DOW: Portraits
from
an American Neigh–
borhood, by Leonard Kriegel. Saturday
Review Press, $8.95
An autobiographical memoir of a white
WOrking-class neighborhood in the Bronx
from the thirties to the present, as seen
through the lives of the Irish, the Italians,
and the Jews living there. It is about
change, about wanting and hurting and
joking, and, always, about trying to get
ahead: the luck of the two-dollar window
at the race track; the chance to out–
maneuver the system. "In his new book
Kriegel has emerged as 'the Fred Exley of
the
Bronx'
and
more." -DAN WAKEFIELD
STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: VOL–
UME II, by Claude LevI-Strauss, trans–
lated by Monlque Layton. Basic Books,
$17.50
In this long-awaited Volume II of his
Structural Anthropology
Levi-Strauss fo–
cuses on such important topics as: com–
parative religion as it relates to non-literate
peoples; how myths die; structuralism
and literary criticism; urban civilization
and mental health; the founders of mod–
em cultural study such as Rousseau and
Durkheim; and his own reflections on
kinship; the future of
art;
and race in
history.
THE LIVES OF ROGER CASEMENT, by
B.L. Reid. Yale University Press, $25.00
A controversial figure to
the
end, Roger
Casement was raised to the pantheon of
martyred political heroes in Ireland, while
in England Madame Tussaud featured him
in her Chamber of Horrors. B.L. Reid nar–
rates the events leading to Casement's
participation in the Easter Rising of 1916,
and his subsequent arrest, trial, and exe–
cution.
DAY OF THE LEOPARDS: Essays In
Defense of Poetry, by W.K. WlmsaH.
Yale University Press, $12.50
Day
of the Leopards
completes a triad
of Wimsatt's critical essays. It contains
essays on eighteenth-century writers as
well as polemical essays on problems
which have constituted Wimsatt's life's
work.
THE SHACKLE, by ColeHe, translated
by Antonia White. Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, $7.95
The Shackle
has never been available
in book form in this country before. It is a
companion novel to
The Vagabond.
