THE TIDES OF POWER: Conversations
on the American Constitution, by Bob
Eckhardt and Charles L. Black, Jr. Yale
University Press, $10.95
In this dialogue between a working
politician and an academic. Eckhardt and
Black discuss and analyze many aspects
of
the
interactionamong
the
three branches
of government as they were formulated in
the Constitution and as they have devel–
oped over the past two centuries.
POETRY AND REPRESSION, by Harold
Bloom. Yale University Press, $11.95
This reinterpretation of the full sweep
of English and American romantic poetry
expands Bloom's recent theoretical spec–
ulations. Emphasizing practical criticism,
the book offers close readings of poems
of Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats,
Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Yeats,
and Stevens.
Poetry and Repression
con–
tributes importantly to ideas about literary
history, working out a dialectic of the way
poetiC tradition emerges from the pro–
cesses of revisionism and canon-for–
mation.
SCHOOLING IN CAPITALIST AMERICA,
by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Glntls.
Basic Books, $13.95
The authors (two of the nation's most
respected radical economists) hold in this
book that our educational system has not
in the past, and does not now, provide
equality of opportunity for human devel–
opment. The present function of the
schools is not to reform society but to
reinforce it by producing the inequities
which sustain it. Equality of opportunity
will never be offered by our educational
institutions, the authors assert, unless the
inherently unequal structure of the capi–
talist economy of which it is an integral
part,
is abandoned.
C.G. JUNG-THE HAUNTED PROPHET,
by Paul J. Stern. Brazlller, $9.95
Jung the prophet is one facet of the
startling image of Jung that emerges in
Professor Stem's book. There is also
Jung the child, lost in a solitary, dream–
ridden world he never made; Jung the
college student at grips with paranormal
events; Jung
the
novice psychiatrist strug–
gling to make sense out of the nonsense
of madness; Jung the husband; Jung the
lover who insisted on including his ex–
patient and long-time mistress Toni Wolff
within his family circle; and many other
faces of Jung as well.
A HISTORY OF THE CINEMA From Its
Origins to 1970, by Eric Rhode_ Hili and
Wang, $15.00
Eric Rhode has written the one-volume
history of the cinema for this decade: a
history that begins with the invention of
photography. It is possibly the first chron–
ological, systematic attempt to relate
movies to the societies from which they
have emerged.
THE FREEDOM OF THE POET, by John
Berryman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
$8.95
The selections for
The Freedom of the
Poet
were made by John Berryman short–
ly before his death. They include pub–
lished and unpublished writings, both
essays and stories.
CLASS IN A CAPITALIST SOCIETY: A
Study of Contemporary Britain, by John
Westergaard and HenrleHa Resler.
Basic Books, $15.00
The subject of this book is class in–
equality in a major Western country-its
nature and extent today in a modem capi–
talist society. Britain is used as a case
study to illustrate and document in detail
features which, in the view of the authors,
are common to and inherent in contem–
porary capitalism throughout the Western
world.
URBAN TERRORISM:
Theory,
Practice,
and Response, by Anthony M. Burton.
Fr.. Preas, $12.95
Professor Burton clarifies our under–
standing of the phenomenon of urban
terrorism by elucidating
its
historical back–
ground. He also looks at the methods of
modem terrorist organizations and gives
a troubling report on the available re–
sponses of governments.
JOHNSON ON JOHNSON: A Selection
of the Personal and Autobiographical
Writings of Samuel Johnson 1709-
1784), edited by John Wain. DuHon,
$10.00
In Samuel Johnson's writings there is a
shadowy autobiography-Johnson's own
story in his own words. John Wain has
culled the most personal, self-revelatory
of these. Assisted by Wain's detailed and
continuous commentary, Johnson's let–
ters, essays, travel diaries, prayers, and
poems are used to build up a fascinating
picture of his childhood and youth; the
years of struggle in London; his relation–
ships wjth his friends and mistresses; his
jaunts around the country; his health; and
his views on politics, society, and
God.
