Congress at War

Congressional Politics in the Second World War, by Roland Young. 281 pp. New York: Columbia University Press. $4.50

This is a careful, discerning and good-natured book. Professor Young not only knows Congress well, which is unusual, but seems rather to like it, which is unheard of. He has written an orderly, straightforward account of what Congress did, of the function of Congress, during World War Two. He does not shrink from an occasional adverb of praise or blame; but most of the time he sticks to what happened and the reasons therefor.

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Congressional Politics in the Second World War, by Roland Young. 281 pp. New York: Columbia University Press. $4.50

This is a careful, discerning and good-natured book. Professor Young not only knows Congress well, which is unusual, but seems rather to like it, which is unheard of. He has written an orderly, straightforward account of what Congress did, of the function of Congress, during World War Two. He does not shrink from an occasional adverb of praise or blame; but most of the time he sticks to what happened and the reasons therefor.