NON-FICTION REVIEWS IN THE HERALD TRIBUNE BOOK REVIEW
ISSUES AND OBSERVATIONS
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTRY explored the culture and politics of this singular region.
THE FIRST FREEDOM pointed out the increasing concentration of media in the hands of a few large corporation and the threat this presented to freedom of the press.
THE FAITH OF A LIBERAL warned of the dangers of extremism on the right and left.
BREAKING THE BUILDING BLOCKADE discussed the postwar housing crisis and the reasons why the "free market" failed to address it.
HOUSE AND HOME
Four new books on housing design reviewed this week by Richardson Wright, editor-in-chief of House and Garden magazine. In his review Wright mentioned which housing styles had fallen in and out of favor in the immediate postwar years.
BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS
LAFCADIO HEARN was the biography of a turn-of-the-century author who wrote glowingly of Japan.
ALOHA was the memoir of a Hawaiian who helped develop the tourist industry on the islands.
GUY GILPATRIC'S FLYING STORIES was a collection of autobiographical aviation tales from the 1920s and 1930s.
YANKEE STOREKEEPER was the folksy memoirs of the keeper of a general store in Maine.
LEG MEN IN SEVEN LEAGUE BOOTS were stories and anecdotes from a veteran reporter and syndicated sports columnist.
BROADSIDE TO THE SUN was the memoirs of an Ozarks farmer.
MY COUNTRY SCHOOL DIARY was the condensation of a diary of a teacher at a one-room schoolhouse in the 1930s.
GENERAL GEORGE CROOK was the first publication of the autobiography of a 19th- century general who had served in the Civil War and the Indian uprisings.
THE WAR AND THE MILITARY
THE CASE AGAINST THE ADMIRAL: WHY WE MUST HAVE A UNIFIED COMMAND discussed a political hot button issue of the day, the unification of command between the Army and the Navy.
BASTOGNE: THE FIRST EIGHT DAYS presented a detailed account of the defense of Bastogne, a fight that already had entered military legend.
SCHOLARLY AND ACADEMIC WORKS
The Herald Tribune Sunday book review gave more space to books published by university presses than did The Sunday Times Book Review. Several of these books discussed issues still being debated today.