Books: Mobs & Machines

GANG RULE IN NEW YORK—Craig Thompson and Allen Raymond—Dial Press ($3.50).

This book is essentially a study in the urban workings of democracy, and a sight more informative one than most sociologists would be apt to produce. Authors Thompson & Raymond are both able and knowledgeable newspapermen. Much of what they have to tell has been known to other such newspapermen for years, but it has been left to them to pull it together. One good reason for the delay is that, until Prosecutors Dewey and Cahill finally got the goods on Messrs. Jimmy...