Book Reviews : Great Political Thinkers: Plato to the Present. By WILLIAM EBENSTEIN. (New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc., Third Edition, 1960. Pp. xii, 978. $8.50.)

• Date: 01 September 1960
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296001300322
• Author: Whitaker T. Deininger
• Published date: 01 September 1960
• Subject Matter: Articles

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The

author

presents

several

suggested

changes

to

round

out

a

very

complete

analysis

of

cumulative

voting.

He

is

to

be

complimented

for

a

job

well

done.

Longbeach

State

College

LEROY

C.

HARDY

The

Security

Aspects

of

Immigration

Work.

By

ANTHONY

T.

BOUSCAREN.

(Milwaukee:

Marquette

University

Press,

1959.

Pp.

213.)

This

book

is

an

interesting

compilation

of

laws,

cases,

and

administrative

procedures

regarding

the

security

aspects

of

visa

granting,

exclusions,

deporta-

tions

and

denaturalizations.

There

is

a

series

of

very

brief

recommendations

at

the

end

but

otherwise

the

book

contains

relatively

little

analysis.

It

represents

a

good

deal

of

hard

work

and

will

be

a

valuable

short-cut

to

sources

for

those

who

are

interested

in

some

aspects

of

the

field.

Since

there

is

so

little

analysis,

this

reviewer

has

to

forgo

the

opportunity

to

disagree

learnedly

with

the

author’s

point

of

view.

The

few

recommendations

are

largely

ones

for

improving

administrative

or

legislative

enforcement

proce-

dures.

This

reviewer

sees

no

objection

to

them

but

neither

does

he

find

in

the

book

any

arguments

for

or

against

them.

GEORGE

C.

S.

BENSON

Claremont

Men’s

College

Great

Political

Thinkers:

Plato

to

the

Present.

By

WILLIAM

EBENSTEIN.

(New

York:

Rinehart

&

Co.,

Inc.,

Third

Edition,

1960.

Pp.

xii,

978.

$8.50.)

Professor

Ebenstein’s

carefully

edited

anthology

of

selected

writings

by

politi-

cal

thinkers

of

the

West

now

appears

in

a

third

edition.

To

the

wide

range

of

original

sources

contained

in

earlier

editions

are

added

a

new

section

on

&dquo;The

Protestant

Reformation&dquo;

and

expanded

references

in

the

deservedly

praised

&dquo;Bib-

liographical

Notes,&dquo;

which

now

number

more

than

one

hundred

pages.

The

Reformation

literature

contains

selections

from

Martin

Luther’s

Secular

Author-

ity:

To

What

Extent

It

Should

Be

Obeyed;

John

Calvin’s

Institutes

of

the

Christian

Religion;

and

the

pseudonymous

Huguenot

writer

Stephen

Junius

Brutus’

A

Defense

of

Liberty

against

Tyrants.

There

are

no

selections

concerned

with

the

Reformation

in

England,

but

the

author’s

introductions

to

the

selections

from

Hobbes

and

Locke

make

brief

mention

of

the

religious

situation

in

seven,

teenth-century

England.

The

introductions

to

each

chapter

are

clearly

written

and

are

extremely

helpful.

This

large

book

should

satisfy

any

reasonable

teaching

scholar

concerned

with

the

problem

of

finding

source

readings

for

his

students

-

and

himself!

Two

omissions

must

be mentioned.

There

are

no

major

selections

from

American

political

philosophers;

but

in

a

preface

to

an

earlier

edition

of

this

anthology,

Professor

Ebenstein

indicated

that

the

subject

of

American

political

thought

requires

a

separate

book.

Still,

a

selection

from

the

pragmatists

would

have

proved

just.

A

second

omission

is

the

absence

of

any

writings

by

members

of

the