TITLE: The Saturday Review of Literature
[Each Saturday Review of Literature issue covers books, arts, literature, movies, ideas, music, science, poetry and much more. Many regular features and writers, and most reviews are also essays on the subject at hand. ALL the latest books had to have an ad in The Saturday Review! ]
ISSUE DATE: JULY 1, 1972; VOLUME LV, NUMBER 27, THE SOCIETY
CONDITION: RARE edition, standard magazine size, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: THE CASE FOR GEORGE MCGOVERN, by John Kenneth Galbraith.

Why Miss Downey Wants to Cut the Budget By Barry Tarshis: What is happening in one Westchester town is happening all over the country: Hard pressed suburban voters are saying No to higher school taxes.

Image, Image, on the Tube, Tell Me Who I Am By Studs Terkel: Himself a TV figure, Studs Terkel reflects upon the impact of the media on the faceless man in the street.

The Youngest Mayor By Dan Carlinsky: He's a nineteen-year-old Republican named Jody Smith, who runs the town of Ayrshire, Iowa (population, 243).

EDITORIAL: The Mandarin and the Man of the Streets By Ronald P. Kriss: It's difficult to think of two more different types than Saul Alinsky and Edmund Wilson, who died on the same day recently. But the two had this in common: Each was a superlative representative of a very distinctive -- and increasingly rare -- breed of American.

THE SOCIETY:
The Case for George McGovern By John Kenneth Galbraith -- The wry-witted Harvard economist tells why he thinks the Democrats' nominee- apparent may be a latter-day V.D.R. and would make both a winning candidate and a better President.

An American Tragicomedy: Planning the Big Bash for 1976 By Julius Duscha -- America's celebration of its 200th birthday may turn out to be a dud, but planning the bicentennial has been full of fireworks that say as much about the aging nation as the celebration itself is likely to.

The Ralph Nader of Insurance By Daniel Grotta -- The story of how Pennsylvania's feisty insurance commissioner is saving consumers millions on premiums.

Middle America Has Its Woodstock, Too -- the Indianapolis 500 By Jeff Greenfield -- America's largest yearly gathering, with beer in place of drugs, has many attractions -- only one of which is a 500-mile auto race.

A Sinologist in China: Digging Beneath the "Panda Image" By Jonathan Mirsky -- A Far Eastern expert reports on his journey to the People's Republic and brings word of radical new experiments in Chinese socialism.

SR REVIEWS:
BOOKS:
The Fifth World of Forster Bennett: Portrait of a Navajo By Vincent Crapanzano; The Last Captive By A. C. Greene; Conversations with Frank Waters Edited by John B. Milton; Seven Arrows By Hyemeyohsts Storm; Reviewed by William Brandon.
Garvey: The Story of a Pioneer Black Nationalist By Elton C. Fax; Reviewed by Eric Foner.
To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton; From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me By Hakim A. Jamal; Reviewed by Cellestine C. Ware.
In a Darkness By James A. Wechsler; Reviewed by Joseph Brenner.
The Mugging By Morton Hunt; Reviewed by Stanley Klein.
Hoax: The Inside of the Howard Hughes- Clifford Irving Affair By Stephen Fay, Lewis Chester, and Magnus Linklater; Reviewed by Thomas Meehan.
The Optimist's Daughter By Eudora Welty; Reviewed by Elizabeth Janeway.
Book Business By Alan Green.
CINEMA: The Filmed Play By Arthur Knight.
TRAVEL: Guyana: Three Points of Eden By Jan Carew.
MUSIC: Four-Star "Rigoletto"; Rising Violinist By Irving Kolodin.
PHOENIX NEST: Blotching the Job Edited by Martin Levin.

GAMES:
Your Literary I.Q.
Wit Twister.
Literary Crypt.
Kingsley Double-Crostic No. 1995.

COVER: Stanley Tretick; illustrations by Richard Bennett; Stanley Tretick; illustrations by Edward Sorel; Ed Eckstein; Norman Snyder: Jane Barett; Jill Krementz; George Hunter. CARTOON CREDIT: Mort Gerberg.

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