Blaming the Victim (a book review)
WILLIAM RYAN. Blaming the Victim, Revised, Updated Edition. New York: Vintage Books, 1976. 288 pages. $3.15. Though speaking to broadly held misconceptions, Blaming the Victim was also a direct response to Senator Daniel P. Moynihan’s 1965 report: The Negro Family: A Case for National Action (often referred to simply as the Moynihan report). In this…
Tribes on the Hill (a book review)
JACK MCIVER WEATHERFORD. Tribes on the Hill: The U.S. Congress Rituals and Realities, Revised Edition. New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1985. 316 pages. $32.95. An apparent paradox of Congress intrigued Weatherford: they “seemed trapped in some weird plane of mythological time where endless rituals were repeated with great effort, attention, and energy; yet, little was…
