Book Reviews : Theory and Practice in American Politics. Edited by WILLIAM H. NELSON. (Chi cago: University of Chicago Press, 1964. Pp. xiv, 149. $5.50.)

• Author: Harold V. Rhodes
• Published date: 01 December 1964
• Date: 01 December 1964
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/106591296401700453
• Subject Matter: Articles

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relied on by political scientists as a sensible approach to the study of lobbying in
Washington.
How
might this book be used in the classroom? It might well be used as a com-
panion volume to that of Harmon Zeigler for the undergraduate course on pressure
groups. Since Milbrath has provided details on his method, including his question-
naires and code, it would also be an excellent base for a seminar in interest groups
and lobbying. The seminar could replicate some of Milbrath’s research and extend
it to the states, where aside from the work of Samuel Patterson on Oklahoma and
one chapter in The Legislative System, little has been done. Much to his credit, Mil-
brath has provided an extensive bibliography which would serve as basic reading for
such a seminar.
CHARLES O. JONES
University of Arizona
The Roots of French Republicanism. By JAMES M. MOORE. (New York: The
American Press, 1964. Pp. 344. $7.50.)
This is primarily a study in intellectual history, dealing with the French revolu-
tionary period. The first two long chapters discuss &dquo;philosophy as an important fac-
tor in the development of the republican ideal in France,&dquo; and &dquo;American republi-
canism and French thought.&dquo; The remaining six chapters deal with development
of the revolution from 1789 through the collapse of republicanism in Robespierre’s
coup in 1793, and include a reasonably thorough presentation of the Girondin and
Jacobin constitutions, neither of which became effective, and the arguments used by
their opponents. For these materials, not always conveniently available, the work
may be useful to students. Evaluation of it as history is beyond this reviewer, who is
not a historian specializing in the French revolution but is aware of the serious con-
troversies which have existed among those who are. The footnotes, averaging three
or four to a page and drawing extensively upon French documents and commen-
taries, and the substantial bibliography, may attest to the...