Book Reviews : American Party Politics: Essays and Readings. Edited by DONALD G. HERZBERG and GERALD M. POMPER. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966. Pp. xiv, 562. $5.95 paper.)

• Date: 01 December 1966
• Published date: 01 December 1966
• Author: Charles O. Jones
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296601900426
• Subject Matter: Articles

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country at this time: predominance in the Caribbean, cooperation in the Far
East, and abstention in Europe.
The authors describe very clearly the opposition within both Congress and
the Navy to the efforts of the modernizers to create a Naval War College. The
reader thus regrets their decision to dismiss in a few sentences similar resistance
to the unsuccessful attempt to establish a naval general staff following the Spanish-
American War. Equally disappointing is their brief reference to the creation of
the Army’s General Staff in 1903.
On the whole, however, these men have produced an excellent examination
of a significant period of American diplomatic history. One hopes that they will
investigate other little-studied events in this field as quickly as possible.
FRED H. WINKLER
University of Idaho
American Party Politics: Essays and Readings. Edited by DONALD G. HERZBERG
and GERALD M. POMPER. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966.
Pp. xiv, 562. $5.95 paper.)
Here is a book of readings which is carefully edited, sensibly organized, and
well integrated. It should find widespread use in the classroom. Each major sec-
tion has an introductory essay by one of the authors. Pomper, whose credentials
as a competent student of parties and elections were established by his book on
the national conventions, has written the essays on party systems, the electoral
process, and voting behavior. Herzberg, who has no peer...