Book Reviews : Amereican Policy and the Division of Germany. By BRUCE KUKLICK. (Ithaca: Comell University Press, 1972. Pp. viii, 286. $8.75.)

• Published date: 01 December 1972
• DOI: 10.1177/106591297202500429
• Author: John W. Schwada
• Date: 01 December 1972
• Subject Matter: Articles

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California’s experiences of the late 1800s if one is to explain adequately the devel-
opment of California’s nonpartisan tradition and the various difficulty or doomed
attempts to strengthen political parties.
Crouch handles the details of the traditional areas of California government
exceptionally well, and many current issues and events are integrated with this
material. There is, however, a distinct unevenness in the level of analysis. The book
has a wealth of detail about campaign management techniques. Even the topic of
political money is discussed in some detail, albeit too discretely. On the other hand,
the legislature is discussed dryly, almost as if the third house didn’t exist (the third
house is treated briefly, but in another section). The section on the judiciary, in
contrast, contains a great deal of critical analysis of the breakdown of the system of
criminal justice.
For a general grounding in the operation of California government Crouch
clearly offers the most thorough approach. Leiter is by far the most current, con-
troversial, and colorful of the three, and de la Haye is the most likely to pass curricu-
lum standards in Orange County.
ELIZABETH F. MOULDS
California State University, Sacramento
Amereican Policy and the Division of Germany. By BRUCE KUKLICK. (Ithaca:
Comell University Press, 1972. Pp. viii, 286. $8.75.)
In this study, which carries the subtitle, The Clash With Russia Over Repara-
tions, the author asserts the development of three basic arguments : the &dquo;Morgen-
thau Plan&dquo; was not pro-Communist as some have argued but was rather in total
accord with the State Department’s postwar priority of expanding American com-
mercial influence; the American policy on German reparations after World War II;
the State Department’s concept of a world politico-economic system precluded
compromise with Russia on reparations, led to the partitioned occupation of Ger-
many and, perhaps successively to the hostile division of Europe.
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