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Books What Happened to Goldwater? Author's Reluctant Answer: It Was Goldwater Himself Sioux Indian Story Is Well-Documented WHAT HAPPENED TO GOLDWATER? THE INSIDE STORY OF THE 1964 REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN, by Stephen Shadegg (Holt, Rinehart Winston, 280 RED CLOUD AND THE SIOUX PROBLEM, by James pages, C. Olson (University of Nebraska Press). least of which is the author's appointed his captors; it was he, Shadegg makes painfully plain, who prized loyalty above advice and often turned away in impatience and irritation from counsel he did not want to hear. If the "real" or "old" Barry Goldwater was submerged beneath the belligerent rhetoric of Karl Hess, Harry Jaffe and other militant speechwriters, it ambivalent attitude toward his Reviewed by ROSALEA S. FOX By ELIOT FREMONT-SMITH fork mt 0 Thirteen months ago, Stephen Shadegg, regional director for the western states in Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential In "Red Cloud and the Sioux hero.

What happened to Barry Gold water? Inept, insensitive, ama Problem," James C. Olson has written a voluminously docu teurish management happened sion would insure lasting peace; he was heard to say "that he had been sent by the government to make peace and it should be accomplished if made with but two Indians." Army men repeatedly showed contempt for Indian fighting power just before the Indians dealt severe blows. Major Van Voast, commander at Fort Laramie, received a report from mented but brisk account of the to Goldwater, says Shadegg, and was nevertheless the candidate drive, published a controversial book called "How To Win An his book goes far to document Sioux from their forcible closure who approved their choice of Election." His new book is the charge. Yet behind the tales of the Bozeman Trail in 1866 to kind of sequel to that manual be words and delivered both the speeches and the scowls. If the message of "true con the end of then- power.

The book, of organizational foul-ups, petty snubs, jealousies and betrayals. cause its title could have been published Aug. 21, covers every "How To Lose An Election." tardy and contradictory plan turn of event, every pertinent personality quirk of chief and Jim Bridger that the Sioux were ning, security paranoia, wishful thinking and wondrous profes servatism" never got across and Shadegg believes that if it had, Goldwater might still have won if its principles were dis It tells the "Inside Story" part of it, anyway of the making of a debacle, of a presiden organizing for this was two agent, Army officer and bureau sional innocence Is Arth crat. The many footnotes are months before the Fetterman massacre. Van Voast comment ur Summerfield?" Kitchel asked torted into a kind of threatening directly to the point and give foundation to statements that at the beginning of the cam ed, "I do not believe much of negativism and its substance obfuscated by an emphasis in what Mr.

Bridger says. He ex paign) behind these surface tremors Shadegg's real answer aggerates about Indians." the press on Goldwater's off- reluctantly emerges. What hap Fifteen times Red Cloud went tial campaign that went grotesquely wrong. Goldwater supporters will view the book with mixed feelings. Its headline revelationwhat Shadegg calls the campaign's "Best-Kept Secret," that Denison Kitchel, Goldwater's chief confidant and cam-, paign manager, had been an: early member of the John Birch! the-cuff erraticism and minor inconsistencies, it was the can pened to Barry Goldwater was Goldwater himself.

to Washington to speak for his people. His final request for an audience, made in 1891 after the otherwise might seem incredible. The Sioux story is full of reversals on the parts of Indians, government commissioners and agents, and even the Great Father in Washington. Therefore the details of the story are. the story.

The style is easy and clear. Dr. Olson's Indians and didate who accepted the distortions and made the off-the-cuff remarks. Named Captors If the candidate was, as Shad egg repeatedly suggests, a cap Unfair Press? Ghost Dance troubles, was never answered; it was found among the papers of the Indian Commissioner marked simply Was the nress unfair to tive of his advisers, the adoring Kitchel, William Baroody (an Goldwater? Shadegg agrees with whites act so naturally in their "File." Dean Rnrrh former rha rman, iarauue, Society has already made the front pages. Many Fascinations But students of political organization and political psychology will find many other minor fascinations in these pages, not the of the Republican National Com ominous, shadowy, Svengali-like presence in this book) and Bar-oody's "think-tank" colleagues, it is also clear that this was the candidate's wish.

It was he who the Powder River country and the Pine Ridge Agency that the reader often foresees happenings and can judge for himself of intentions and accomplishments. A few statements out of con Best Seller Books Nt flwk Simra mittee, that it was (though he aims most of his fire at Fact Magazine). Yet was it not the candidate himself who provided reporters with the major continuing news-story of the cam Of Books and Writers text may serve to show the qual paign: That the presidential nominee of the Republican party ed by Donald M. Allen and Robert Creeley, a selection of short ity and of the book. In Anderson Play stories, will be published Aug the spring of 1866, E.

B. Taylor, Northern Indian Superintendent, 25. Contributors are William "The Days Between," a play by Robert Anderson, has been head of a new commission to Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Mich ael Rumaker, Creeley, William published by Random House. This is the play that Anderson, FICTION THE SOURCE, by James A. Michener.

UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE, by Bel Kaufman. HOTEL, by Arthur Hailey. THE GREEN BERETS, by Robin Moore. THE LOOKING GLASS WAR, by John Le Carre. NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID, by Fletcher Knebel.

Eastlake, Hubert Selby Ed seemed unable on the crucial issues war, control of atomic weapons, civil rights, social security, right-wing extremism, his own impulsiveness and his intellectual fitness for the office he was seeking to say clearly what he and his advisers insisted he meant to say? Shadegg tells part of what ward Born, LeRoi Jones, John author of "Tea and Sympathy" and other dramas, put out treat with the tribes, exercised tremendous influence on the future of the Sioux. Unsuccessful in getting Red Cloud and other hostile chiefs to treat with him, he tossed off the failure and informed Washington that his mis Rechy and Douglas Woolf. 1965 Auto Engines through the American Play wrights' Theater. Forty-eight of the 122 member theaters of the APT have agreed to present the play during the year, beginning The nine major American auto-makers are offering more than 25 different types of engines this year. In "The Complete went wrong, both directly andi by implication.

His view is at mentary value as the first i a. ii iruM THE AMBASSADOR, by Morris once piased ana enigmatic; aumoriiauve report on me iwi Book of Engines," just published there are many omissions; certain details will be debated. Republican effort from within the Goldwater camp. One hopes, at least for history's sake, that by Petersen Publishing Yet "What Happened to Gold- West. DON'T STOP THE CARNIVAL, by Herman Wouk.

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, by Ian Fleming. A PILLAR OF IRON, by Taylor water?" has obvious docu- it will not be the last. Trident Press, James E. Potter and the editors of Hot Rod Magazine present details on 1965 power plants and discuss what tests have shown to be strong City Library Notes in September. Youthful Chess Master Bobby Fischer, the young chess grand master who was recently checkmated by the State Department when he wanted to play in Cuba, is the subject of a biography, "Profile of a Prodigy," by Frank Brady, published by McKay.

The author is editor of Chess World and a tournament player himself. The study includes annotations of 75 of Fischer's most im and weak points of each motor. The book is illustrated with By MARY H. HAGERTY How Paris miraculously es 'With Every Breath You caped Adolf Hitler's sentence of drawings, pictures and diagrams. For Book-Burning Take," by Howard R.

Lewis, a death in August, 1944, is told in "Is Paris Burning?" by Larry well-written, informative book Caldwell. GENERAL MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT: 1964, by Theodore H. White. IS PARIS BURNING? by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. MARKINGS, by Dag Hammar-skjold.

INTERN, by Doctor X. THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, by Samuel Eliot Morison. "The Secret Places," by David on the poisons of air pollution, Collins and Dominique Lapierre. Holbrook, which the University the effect on health and solutions portant games. An Editor and Authors The book reveals the immense drama of the struggle of Paris to the problem, is among new books at the Great Falls Public for her life and liberty.

In "Teen-Age Fitness," Bon Library this week. of Alabama Press will issue on Aug. 31, is a denunciation of the teaching of English in secondary schools. The author would burn textbooks, the classics and most tests. The English class, he feels, should be a forum for Fans of Art Buchwald will en Dutton has published "My Life in Publishing," by Harold S.

Latham, former editor in chief of The Macmillan Co. The book tells of dealing with many writers, including a woman he QUEEN VICTORIA: BORN TO nie Prudden presents her tested, fun-to-do program designed to help teen-agers attain physical well-being and the vigor and SUCCEED, by Elizabeth joy Ana i roia tne rresi-dent." In this book Buchwald solves most of the crucial issues of our times in a manner most music, drama and art that would induce young people to met in Atlanta, while on a slim good looks that go with it. GAMES PEOPLE PLAY, by people will find lighthearted. Eric Berne. Other new books to be re trip scouting for potential au thors.

She was Margaret Mitch read understanding and write lucidly. Reprints "All About Geraniums," by leased Monday morning are: SIXPENCE IN HER SHOE, by Peggie Schultz, can prove in Phyllis McGinley. ell. Latham had a hard time inducing her to let him look at valuable to a great variety of Recent fiction reprints in "Opportunities in Machine Shop Trades," B. J.

Stern; "War in the Golden Weather," Stephen JOURNAL OF A SOUL, by Pope John XXIII. gardening enthusiasts, from the experienced horticulturist who clude: "Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis (Popular Library, 75 cents): "The God-Seeker," Sin Longstreet; "High Citadel," the book she was working on, but he left town with "Gone With the Wind" in a suitcase he hurriedly bought to carry the voluminous manuscript. Desmond Bagley; "Fellow-Trav THE KANDY-KOLORED TANGERINE-FLAKE STREAMLINE BABY, by Tom Wolfe. wants to select, propagate and hybridize the floriferous geranium to the showman who desires eler," David Montross; "Raw clair Lewis (Popular Library, 60 hide Men," Western Writers of cents): "The Searchers," Alan Le May (Popular Library, 50 to groom geraniums for blue rib America, and "The Fortune Hunters," Joan Aiken. GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE 9 SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1965 Short Story Collection "New American bon awards.

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