Book Reviews

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Abstract Abstract America's Hidden Success: A Reassessment of Twenty Years of Public Policy John E. Schwarz. W. W. Norton, New York, 1983. 208 pp. $12.95 (cloth), $5.95 (paperback). Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond Herbert Stein. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1984. 414 pp. $16.50. Capitalism and the Welfare State: Dilemmas of Social Benevolence Neil Gilbert. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1983. 187 pp. $16.95. Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730–1870 Hendrik Hartog. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1983. 274 pp. $27.50. Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century David C. Hammack. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1982. 422 pp. $29.95. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Edward R. Tufte. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Conn., 1984. 200 pp. $34.00. A Planner's Guide to Land Use Law Stuart Meek and Edith M. Netter, editors. APA Planners Press, Chicago, 1983. 369 pp. $33.95. Legal Foundations of Environmental Planning: Textbook/Casebook and Materials on Environmental Law, Volume 1 Jerome G. Rose. Center for Urban Policy Research, New Brunswick, N.J., 1983. 537 pp. $22.95. Land, Growth, and Politics John M. DeGrove. APA Planners Press, Chicago, 1984. 435 pp. $33.95. Housing Assistance for Older Americans: The Reagan Prescription James P. Zais, Raymond J. Struyk, and Thomas Thibodeau. Urban Institute Press, Washington, 1982. 125 pp. $9.95 (paperback). The Elderly and Urban Housing James P. Zais and Thomas Thibodeau. Urban Institute Press, Washington, 1983. 107 pp. $9.95 (paperback). Voluntary Agencies in the Welfare State Ralph M. Kramer. University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1981. 400 pp. $26.50. If Not for Profit, for What? A Behavioral Theory of the Nonprofit Sector Based on Entrepreneurship Dennis R. Young. Lexington Books, Lexington, Mass., 1983. 192 pp. $20.95. The Atlantic City Gamble: A Twentieth Century Fund Report George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1983, 215 pp. $16.50. Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life Dolores Hayden. W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1984. 270 pp. $17.95. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925 John W. Reps. University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Mo., 1984. 570 pp. $89.50. Financing State and Local Government in the 1980s Roy Bahl. Oxford University Press, New York, and London, 1984. 258 pp. $24.95. State and Local Fiscal Relations in the Early 1980s Stephen D. Gold. The Urban Institute Press, Washington, 1983. 76 pp. $9.95 (paperback). What Role for Government? Lessons from Policy Research Richard J. Zeckhauser and Derek Leebaert, editors. Duke Press Policy Studies, Durham, N.C., 1983. 363 pp. $37.75. The Contested City John H. Mollenkopf. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1983. 328 pp. $27.50 (cloth), $6.95 (paperback). California's Housing: Adequacy, Availability, and Affordability Ira S. Lowry, Carol E. Hillestad, and Syam Sarma. Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif., 1983. 272 pp. $20.00. California Housing Markets in the 1980s: Demand, Affordability, and Policies Kenneth T. Rosen. Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, Cambridge, Mass., 1984. 104 pp. $22.50. Interregional Migration, National Policy, and Social Justice Gordon L. Clark. Rowman and Allanheld, Totowa, N.J., 1983. 191 pp. $34.95. Holdouts! Andrew Alpern and Seymour Durst. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1984. 175 pp. $29.95. Future Water: An Exciting Solution to America's Most Serious Resource Crisis John R. Sheaffer and Leonard A. Stevens. William Morrow and Co., Inc., New York, 1983. 269 pp. $14.95. The Politics of Park Design: A History of Parks in America Galen Cranz. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1982. 347 pp. np. The City—A Dictionary of Quotable Thoughts on Cities and Urban Life James A. Clapp. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N:J., 1984. 288 pp. $30.00.