Books in Brief

Journey Into Politics, by John V. Lindsay (Dodd, Mead, $4.00) . There are interesting questions about John V. Lindsay, but unfortunately none of them is asked or answered here. We have instead a collection of JVL’s occasional pieces on his years in the Congress, years during which, Lindsay has remarked else-where, he came “close to the edge of being ineffective.” One can scarcely recognize that Lindsay who lustily exhales, “I found it immensely absorbing to draft a bill and see it through the tortuous pathways of the Congress.” One wishes he could have paused long enough to mention the first eight or nine that crowded into his memory. Rehashed in some detail are the legislative battles of the early-to-middle Sixties— foreign aid, immigration, civil rights, selection of committee chairmen, etc.—battles which for the most part no longer engage the emotions. And there are flashes of