Book Reviews : Your Inalienable Rights. By PHILIP YEAGER and JOHN R. STARK. (Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1960. Pp. xii, 274. $5.00.)

• Published date: 01 December 1961
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296101400447
• Author: Robert Y. Fluno
• Date: 01 December 1961
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Yet the party’s weaknesses were not unavoidable. In the deepest sense
commitment to the interests of the Soviet Union tied it to postwar Soviet strategy
of defeating the power of the United States. Because this was a Communist
party it had to be anti-American.
Professor Shannon counts it an &dquo;irony of history&dquo; that despite the usefulness
of the C.P.U.S.A. to the interests of the Soviet Union, the Soviet party &dquo;admin-
istered to the American Communists their last crushing blow.&dquo; With the thaw
in the cold war, the decline of McCarthyism and some advantageous Supreme
Court decisions, the party albeit ineffective might have remained intact. How-
ever, &dquo;the Party’s final crisis ... was precipitated entirely by the Russian denun-
ciation of Stalin and the crushing of the Hungarian revolution.&dquo; Today several
thousand Party members, an aging impotent group, hardly supported by front
organizations, demeaned in the eyes of their fellow men, but emotionally com-
mitted to the goals of the Soviet Union, face the likelihood that with each pass-
ing year the party will come nearer to dying out.
J. LEO CEFKIN
Colorado State University
Your Inalienable Rights. By PHILIP YEAGER and JOHN R. STARK. (Washington:
Public Affairs Press, 1960. Pp. xii, 274. $5.00.)
Messrs. Yaeger and Stark have labored to produce a book which might, with
better writing, have become a popular manual for the layman on &dquo;What the law
means to you.&dquo; It is made up of a large number of short sections each giving
one or more instances of &dquo;real life&dquo; legal cases told in the simplest of layman’s
language. Only in the most incidental and smallest sense does the book deal with
those basic rights which are of interest to students of public law. A few quota-
tions will save space in giving the political scientist an understanding of why the
book is not for his professional reading.
The opening paragraph of the book starts as follows and is not atypical:
&dquo;Remember Sir Walter Scott’s dramatic poem about young Lochinvar who came
dashing out of the West to get himself a wife? In that one the hero stole the
’fair Ellen’ right out from under the nose of her kinfolk....&dquo; The flavor of the
book is best represented, however, by a few section headings. They are chosen
at random. &dquo;When can’t you burn leaves on your property?&dquo; &dquo;What does the
law require you to wear in public?&dquo; &dquo;Why won’t our government make you a
baron or a countess?"
ROBERT Y. FLUNO
Whitman College
OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
AARON, DANIEL. Men of Good Hope, A Story of American Progressives. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1961. xiv and 329 pp.
ABERNATHY, BYRON R. Constitutional Limitations on the Legislature. Lawrence:
Governmental Research Series # 20, Governmental Research Center, Uni-
versity of Kansas, 1959. 108 pp.

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ABERNATHY, BYRON R. Some Persisting Questions Concerning the Constitutional
State Executive. Lawrence: Governmental Research Center, University
of Kansas, 1960. 94 pp.
ADAM, THOMAS R. Elements of Government. New York: Random House, 1960.
x and 468 pp., $6.75.
ADRIAN, CHARLES R. (ed.). Social Science and Community Action. East Lan-
sing : Institute for Community Development &
Services, Michigan State
University, 1961. 55 pp., $2.00.
ALEXANDER, HERBERT E. Money, Politics and Public Reporting. Princeton, New
Jersey: Citizens’ Research Foundation, 1960. 87 pp., $.50.
ALMOND, GABRIEL A., AND JAMES S. COLEMAN (eds.). The Politics of the Devel-
oping Areas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960. xii and 591 pp.,
$10.00.
ANDERSON, WILLIAM; CLARA PENNIMAN; AND EDWARD W. WEIDNER. Govern-
.
ment in the Fifty States (rev. ed.). New York: Holt, 1960. xi and 509 pp.,
$6.50.
APTHEKER, HERBERT. The World of C. Wright Mills. New York: Marzani &
Munsell, 1960. 128 pp., $1.65.
ASHER, ROBERT E. Grants, Loans, and Local Currencies: Their Role in Foreign
Aid. Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1961. xii and 142, $1.50-$2.50.
BAERWALD, HANS H. The Purge of Japanese Leaders Under the Occupation.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. 111 pp., $2.25.
BAIN, RICHARD C. Convention Decisions and Voting Records. Washington, D.C.:
Brookings, 1960. xi and 440 pp., $6.75.
BAIR, FRED H., JR., AND ERNEST R. BARTLEY. The Text of a Model Zoning Or-
dinance. Chicago: American Society of Planning Officials, 1960. v and 91
pp., $2.00.
BAKER, CURTIS O. A Guide to the Work of Executive Agencies in Michigan.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1959. xiii and 153 pp., $2.50.
BALDAEUS, PHILLIPUS. A True and Exact Description o the Great Island o
Key-
lon (a new and unabridged translation into English by Pieter Brohier). De-
hiwala, Ceylon: Ceylon Historical Journal, 1960. xvi and 403 pp.
BARKER, ERNEST. Greek Political Theory. New York: Barnes &
Noble, 1960.
xii and 468 pp., $1.95.
BARRETT, RUSSELL. Promises and Performances in Australian Politics. New York:
Institute of Pacific Relations, 1960. 126 pp., $2.50.
BECK, CARL. Contempt of Congress. New Orleans: Hauser Press, 1959. xii
and 263 pp., $4.50.
BELL, JAMES R., AND EARL L. DARRAH. State Executive Reorganization. Berkeley:
Bureau of Public Administration, University of California, 1961. x and 125
pp., $2.00.

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BENDIX, REINHARD. Max Weber, An Intellectual Portrait. New York: Double-
day, 1960. 480 pp., $5.75.
BINGHAM, DAVID A. Constitutional Municipal Home Rule in Arizona. Tucson:
Bureau of Business and Public Research, University of Arizona, 1960. v and
66 pp., $1.50.
BIRD, FREDERICK. The General Property Tax: Findings of the 1957 Census of
Governments. Chicago: Public Administration Service, 1960. 77 pp., $3.00.
BISHOP, HILLMAN M., AND SAMUEL HENDEL. Basic Issues o
f American Democracy
(4th ed.). New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961. xviii and 507 pp.,
$2.95.
BLAKE, NELSON MANFRED, AND OSCAR THEODORE BARCK, JR. The United States
in Its World Relations. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. viii and 840 pp.,
$7.95.
BOLES, DONALD E. The Bible, Religion, and the Public Schools. Ames: Iowa
State University Press, 1961. ix and 308 pp., $4.95.
BRAZER, HARVEY E. Taxation in Michigan: An Appraisal. Ann Arbor: Institute
of Public Administration, University of Michigan, 1961. 41 pp., $1.00.
BRECHER, MICHAEL. Nehru: A Political Biography. New York: Oxford Uni-
versity Press, 1959. xvi and 682 pp., $8.50.
BRODIE, BERNARD. Strategy in the Missile Age. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1959. v and 523 pp., $6.50.
BURICKSON, SHERWIN. Concise Dictionary of Contemporary History. New York:
Philosophical Library, 1959. viii and 216 pp., $4.75.
BURKHART, JAMES A; HENRY BUSH; SAMUEL KRISLov; R. L. LEE. American GOV-
vernment: The Clash of Issues. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1960. x
and 422 pp., $3.95.
CALLARD, KEITH B. Political Forces in Pakistan. New York: Institute of Pacific
Relations, 1959. 48 pp., $2.00.
CALLIS, HELMUT G. China, Asia and the West. Salt Lake City: Institute of In-
ternational Studies, University of Utah Press, 1960. 38 pp., $1.00.
CAPPON, LESTER J., (ed.). The Adams-Jefferson Letters, Vol. 1, 1777-1804.
Chapel Hill: North Carolina University Press, 1959. li and 282 pp., $12.50
per set.
CARNEY, FRANCIS H., AND FRANK WAY, JR. (eds.). POlitICS 1960. San Francisco:
Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1960. xi and 266 pp.
CHALFANT, WILLIAM BERGEN. Primer o
Free Government. New York: Philos-
phical Library, 1959. 160 pp., $3.00.
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY. The...