Book Reviews : World Politics and Personal Insecurity. By HAROLD D. LASSWELL. (New York: The Free Press, 1965. Pp. xi, 238. $2.45.)
| Date | 01 March 1966 |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591296601900139 |
| Published date | 01 March 1966 |
| Author | James C. Davies |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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suggest
a
few
chapters
from
her
father’s
If
Men
Were
Angels
plus
&dquo;The
Fallacy
of
Universal
Law,&dquo;
a
book
review
essay
appearing
in
1944
in
the
Harvard
Law
Review.
And
of
course
Judge
Frank’s
concurring
opinion
in
U.S.
v.
Roth
is
a
near-classic
examination
of
censorship
in
all
its
forms
as
well
as
a
monument
to
the
enlightened,
empirically
oriented
jurisprudence
which
he
so
ably
espoused.
In
all,
from
twenty
separate
judicial
opinions,
five articles
or
speeches,
and
four
monographs,
the
editor
has
presented
some
rich,
varied
and
enjoyable
trim-
ming.
This
reviewer
once
knew
a
philosophy
student
who
deemed
it
his
solemn
duty
to
go
about
passing
out
free
copies
of
the
works
of
J.
D.
Salinger.
Would
that
some
prosperous
law
student
undertake
a
like
crusade
in
the
distribution
of
A
Man’s
Reach.
And
he
might
well
begin
in
his
own
profession.
HARRY
P.
STUMPF
University
of
New
Mexico
Freedom
and
Communications.
By
DAN
LACY.
(Second
edition;
Urbana:
Univer-
sity
of
Illinois
Press,
1965.
Pp.
viii,
108.
$3.00
cloth,
$0.95
paper.)
Although
Dan
Lacy,
a
professional
librarian,
did
not
direct
his
remarks
spe-
cifically
to
political
scientists,
there
is
much
of
importance
for
both
the
political
scientist
and
the
layman
in
this
book.
In
this
second
edition
of
a
report
of
lectures
given
by
the
author
as
a
Windsor
Lecturer
in
librarianship
at
the
University
of
Illi-
nois
in
1959,
he
takes
a
long,
hard
look
at
the
system
of
communications
in
contem-
porary
America.
He
delineates
the
challenges
confronting
the
system,
the
responses
it
has
made
to
the
challenges,
and
the
future
of
the
system
in
view
of
its
potentialities
for
dealing
with
its
weaknesses.
He
gives
particular
attention
to
developments
in
all
of
the
mass
media
and
measures
actual
performance
against
what
he
considers
to
be
their
potential
for
development
in
the
&dquo;public
interest.&dquo;
He
is
strong
in
his
indict-
ment
of
the
television
industry
for
its
failure
to
provide
a
fare
which
contributes
to
the
building
of
enlightened
public
opinion.
Although
Mr.
Lacy’s
analysis
may
not
be
entirely
satisfying
to
those
social
scientists
who
prefer
to
discuss
the
communications
process
in
behaviorally
oriented
terms,
all
concerned
citizens
should
be
appreciative
of
his
efforts
to
call
attention
to
the
need
for
public
policies
which
will
promote
the
fullest
development
of
the
various
media
for
socially
useful
purposes.
CHARLES
G.
MAYO
San
Francisco
State
College
World
Politics
and
Personal
Insecurity.
By
HAROLD
D.
LASSWELL.
(New
York:
The
Free
Press,
1965.
Pp.
xi,
238.
$2.45.)
Thirty
years
after
its
initial
publication,
this
reissue
of
one
of
Lass~n~ell’s
major
contributions
has
appeared.
Few
books
are
worth
reading
a
decade
after their
appearance.
In
spite
of
showing
its
age,
this
one
is
still
alive
a
generation
after
its
author
first
advanced
the
thoughts
to
undergraduates
at
the
University
of
Chicago.
The
book
is
worth
reading
as
an
historical
document,
as
an
example
of
pioneering
efforts
to
link
systematically
psychology
and
politics.
It
is
also
worth
reading
because
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