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BOOK REVIEW          HUDSON                                                                 

publications appears along with publishers' names and addresses and when possible, subscription rates. Additionally there is a listing of organizations committed to the interests of American Indians. 

This is an important work which should provide invaluable to students, historians, and researchers. My primary disappointment is that the volume does not appear in hard cover. The paperback format somehow does not lend itself to the contents of this volume as a valuable reference source. 

                                                                                          Jo Hudson

                                                                                 A USEFUL HANDBOOK

DICK GREGORY'S POLITICAL PRIMER. By Dick Gregory. Edited by James R. McGraw. Harper & Row, New York. 335 pages. $6.95.

PRIMER as defined in the dictionary is: 1. a first book in reading; 2. cap or cylinder containing a little gun powder, used for firing a charge. 

Using these two definitions describes completely Political Primer. This book should be read and studied by those who are politically motivated, and those in a political void. Dick Gregory traces the origins of our democratic government. As he examines it, he will undress and expose the facts of our first elections, constitution, and subsequent elections. He will lead you through history dealing with our political society. The reader might well be appalled by our two party system, national party conventions, and party platforms, when the author exposes them. 

The author has truly compiled a handbook, written for the average citizen. This book is spiced with political satire and humor to keep the reader buried in the words that appear on the pages. Those words will rouse those satisfied with this system, to question their own complacency. To question the constitution, their feelings on civil rights, and the party system, where these subjects were ignored by them. If this book provokes these complacent ones, then the author has accomplished a reality. The non voter will use this same work and argue the uselessness of his ballot. He will use Dick Gregory's writing on the electoral college, and the way the "College" operates. The non-voter will rhetorically ask: Do the citizens of America have a choice for President or the lesser of two evils? Can we use the party platform as a guide to what that administration will do when elected?
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