Out This Month: Rowland Berthoff surveys An Unsettled People: Social Order and Disorder in American History, thinks stability may be just around the corner (Harper, $12.50). . . . Will Oursler assails liberal trends in Protestantism, dubs the National Council of Churches “the Vatican on the Hudson” in Protestant Power and the Coming Revolution (Doubleday, $5.95). . . . Jumping the gun on election year bios is Muskie by Theo Lippman Jr. and Donald C. Hansen (Norton, $6.95). . . . In his autobiography, The Alvin Karpis Story, the former Public Enemy Number One denies that J. Edgar Hoover personally captured him (Coward, $6.95).
Selling Nooses to Capitalists: Liberal Gallagher Report, Mad Ave gossip sheet, polled its Ulcer Alley readership, came up with “The One Person Who Did Most for the Advertising Industry During 1970.” Ralph Nader! Gallagher himself, in his President’s Report, salutes the “Top Ten public service leaders of 1970.” Bernie’s picks: Morris Abram, Shirley Chisholm, John Gardner, Kenneth Gibson, Nader, Wright Patman, William Proxmire, Fred Rooney, William Scranton, Henry Steeger (ex-head of Urban League).
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