■ More July Titles: Thomas R. Burns, a former naval officer, has written a book called The Secret War for the Ocean Depths (Rawson Associates, $12.95), which concerns the rivalry between the U.S. and the USSR in the subaqueous arms race: submarine warfare. . . . Henry Hazlitt’s new book is The Inflation Crisis, and How to Resolve It (Arlington, $8.95). Here he argues that inflation is not merely a rise in prices but “undue expansion or increase of the currency of a country,” and denounces the practice of printing insufficiently backed money. His solution is to permit private citizens and corporations to coin their own gold. . . . The late Frederick Merk, the Yale historian, who was a colleague of Frederick Jackson Turner, revised a series of lectures, now reprinted in History of the Westward Movement (Knopf, $20). He considers agriculture, riparian rights, the growth of industry, Indian policy, and indeed every other subject pertaining to the settlement of the American West over a period of some three hundred years. . . . Religious Reasons: The Rational and Moral Basis of Religious Belief (Oxford, $14.95), by Ronald M. Green, refutes the necessary separation of reason and religion. . . . Stanley Wells’s Shakespeare: An Illustrated Dictionary (Oxford, $9.95) contains alphabetically arranged information concerning Shakespeare’s life, his plays, the thespians who performed them, and many other matters.
■ Some August Titles: James Mac-Gregor Burns’s Leadership (Harper, $15) begins with the notion that “A leader and a tyrant are polar opposites,” and goes on from there. (Actually, the applications of these terms are more interesting than the distinction between them, which is obvious enough.) . . . Eugene McCarthy is the author of America Revisited: 150 Years after Tocqueville (Doubleday, $7.95), a book which compares the state of America today to that of the country through which Tocqueville traveled in the Age of Jackson. McCarthy says Tocqueville foresaw the fate of the Indians, but failed to anticipate the rise of the military and the corporation. By the time President Eisenhower corrected this oversight in 1959, it was, of course, too late for the United States.
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