Literature of broadcasting: Books in review

TELEVISION AND GROWING UP: THE IMPACT OF TELEVISED VIOLENCE. By the Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1972. 169 pp. $2.25 (paper). INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE REGULATION OF THE RADIO SPECTRUM. By David M. Leive. Leyden: A. W. Sijthoff. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, Inc., 1970. 386 pp. $16.50. THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION: ISSUES AND NEXT STEPS. A report by the Panel on International Telecommunications Policy of the American Society of International Law. New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. June, 1971. 31pp. $1.00. THE FUTURE OF SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND THE NEEDS OF NATIONS. Second report by the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on International Satellite Communications. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1970. 80 pp. $1.00. INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION CONTROL: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE ORDERING OF SATELLITE AND OTHER FORMS OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING. By Delbert D. Smith. Leyden (Netherlands): A. W. Sijthoff, 1969. xvi+231 pp. $8.15. USE OF THE MASS MEDIA BY THE URBAN POOR. By Bradley S. Greenberg and Brenda Dervin. New York: Praeger, 1970. 251 pp. $13.50. THE POLITICAL PERSUADERS: THE TECHNIQUES OF MODERN ELECTION CAMPAIGNS. By Dan Nimmo. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1970. 214 pp. $5.95/$2.45. TELEVISION NEWS: ANATOMY & PROCESS. By Maury Green. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1969. 352 pp. $7.95. THE TECHNIQUE OF SPECIAL EFFECTS IN TELEVISION. By Bernard Wilkie. New York: Hastings House, 1971. 384 pp. $16.50. SPEECH COMMUNICATION VIA RADIO AND TELEVISION. By Glenn Starlin and Ronald Sherriffs. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company, 1971. 134 pp. $1.95 (paper). THE ANATOMY OF A TELEVISION COMMERCIAL. By Lincoln Diamant. New York: Hastings House, 1970. 191 pp. $12.50. THE USE OF ETV. By Tony Gibson. London: Hutchinson Educational, 1970. 127 pp. $2.00 (paper). THE PRACTICE OF ETV. By Tony Gibson. London: Hutchinson Educational, 1970. 189 pp. $6.00 (paper). POP CULTURE IN AMERICA. Edited with an introduction by David Manning White. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970. 280 pp. $2.45 (paper). NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, OR MY LIFE WITH J. WALTER THOMPSON (CONFESSIONS OF A RENEGADE RADIO WRITER). By Carroll Carrol. New York: Cowles Book Co., Inc., 1970. xiii+288 pp. $6.95. SEE NO EVIL: LIFE INSIDE A HOLLYWOOD CENSOR. By Jack Vizzard. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. 381 pp. $6.50. PRAIRIE FARMER AND WLS: THE BURRIDGE D. BUTLER YEARS. By James F. Evans. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969. 329 pp. $8.50. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MOVIES. By Gerald Mast. New York: Oddysey Press, 1971. 463 pp. $10.00/$4.95. FILMS BEGET FILMS. By Jay Leyda. New York: Hill & Wang, 1971. 176 pp. $4.95/$1.95. JOURNALISM IN A FREE SOCIETY. By Verne E. Edwards, Jr. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company, 1970. 287 pp. $6.50. THE PROCESS AND EFFECTS OF MASS COMMUNICATION. Edited by Wilbur Schramm and Donald F. Roberts. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972. 997 pp. $15.00. THE NEWS TWISTERS. By Edith Efron. Los Angeles: Nash Publishing Co., 1971. 355 pp. $7.95. THE LEFT‐LEANING ANTENNA: POLITICAL BIAS IN TELEVISION. By Joseph Keeley. New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1971. 320 pp. $8.95. THE UNEMBARRASSED MUSE: THE POPULAR ARTS IN AMERICA. By Russel B. Nye. New York: The Dial Press, 1970. 497 pp. $12.50/3.95. BASIC BOOKS IN THE MASS MEDIA: AN ANNOTATED, SELECTED BOOKLIST COVERING GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS, BOOK PUBLISHING, BROADCASTING, FILM, MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS, ADVERTISING, INDEXES, AND SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL PERIODICALS. By Eleanor Blum. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972. 252 pp. $8.00. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERATURE. By Denis Grogan. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1970. 231 pp. $7.00. HANDBOOK OF ADVERTISING MANAGEMENT. Edited by Roger Barton. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1970. 1,050 pp. $19.95. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN REGULATED INDUSTRIES. Edited by William M. Capron. Washington, D. C: Brookings Institution, 1971. 238 pp. $7.95. THE ART AND SCIENCE OF BOOK PUBLISHING. By Herbert S. Bailey, Jr. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. 216 pp. $7.95. THE ELECTRIC HUMANITIES. By Don Allen. Dayton, Ohio: Pflaum Publishers, 1971. 276 pp. $3.95 (paper).