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...tone and approach of P.A.C. is apparent in the very first sentence of its Political Primer for All Americans (2,000,000 copies have already been distributed). Says the Primer: "Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why." This is a full 2,000 years and many miles of Marx-marked thought away from Aristotle's "The good of man must be the end of the science of politics." But, though neither idealistic nor pious, the Primer's opening shocker is unquestionably as American and up-to-date as the word "realism...
...Primer continues: "To the average American, politicians are crooks. . . . The truth is that politicians are no more corrupt than the people who elect them. The people corrupt the politicians. . . . Let's quit blaming the politicians and face the responsibility of full citizenship. . . . Let's become politicians ourselves...
...burning, raging indictment of the Versailles era - "years of lofty dreaming and low demagogy . . . the era of the empty phrase . . . the age of complacency . . . the years of self-destruction." When the book was published in 1943, it got almost no notice. But the book and its current sequel, Primer of the Coming World (Knopf; $3), were news last week because...
Died. Keene Fitzpatrick, 79, famed Princeton track coach (1910-32); after a long illness; in Princeton, N.J. When he was just beginning his coaching career, at Yale, he gave later-famed coach Amos Alonzo Stagg a primer course in the art of the fast breakaway; later, at Michigan, he coached Christian Gauss, who became Princeton's dean...
...first offering was edgy satire indeed. Excerpts from the alphabetical primer...