so j CHRONICLESnents would have the right “to sue anynlocal, state, or federal government fornfunding a school which might damagentheir child’s character, morals, personality,npatriotism, or religious belief”nRachner would offer a choice of Cabinetnposts to a catholic array of conservativenRepublicans, including JeanenKirkpatrick, Oliver North, PhyllisnSchlafly, Jack Kemp, Pat Robertson,nPete DuPont, Linda Chavez, RobertnBork, and Ed Meese, and — a mavericknagain — would “offer Jesse Jacksonnan anti-drug czar post.” The first peoplenshe’d fire would be C. EverettnKoop and Otis Bowen.nRachner would “empower employersnto discriminate against hiring innfull-time positions” any mothers ofnchildren under the age of seven.n(“Never underestimate the power ofnsimplistic phrases repeated over andnover,” she writes in a satirical dialoguenbetween two liberal congressmen.n”Concentrate first on the discontented.nAt first you will get only womennwho are already unhappy, those whonare eaten with jealousy and feel leftnout. Eventually, you can use thesenwomen to influence their more contentednsisters with simplistic advice like.nWind over SandnThe Diplomacy ofnFranklin RooseveltnFrederick W. Marks IIIn”An all-out venture into revisionist historynthat leaves Mr. Roosevelt’s foreign policynreputation bloodied beyond redress. . . .nWiwd over Sand will relight the fires ofncontroversy in Rooseveltology and it willnleave the arena of battle distinctlynchanged”—Max Lerner, Wall Street ]ournal.n”The Roosevelt whom Marks portraysnis nearly the opposite of the familiar cosmopolitannsquire: condescending towardnforeign cultures; surrounded by diplomatsnand secretaries of similar mind; dogmaticallynethnocentric”—Chilton Williamson, Jr.,nNational Review. $29.95 IllustratednThe University of Georgia PressnAthens, Georgia 30602n’Be your own person,’ ‘Be good tonyourself,’ ‘Fulfill your potential.’ Soonnthe fashionableness of career commitmentnwill drive women to earn and tonspend, and they won’t realize wherenthe money’s going. They’ll even bengrateful to . . . liberal politicians andncall [them] their advocates. And [thenpoliticians] will get more PAC moneynfrom big business because [they’re]nturning mothers into a pool of cheapnlabor.”)nShe would allow employment discriminationnfor health, gender, age,nmoral character, personality, physicalnstrength, attitude, and IQ—but notnrace. She would be outspoken in hernopposition to what she describes asn”the goofy, sado-masochistic, anal penetrationnwhich journalists, Democrats,nand the entertainment industries ofnHollywood and New York choose toncall ‘sex’ and even insist on describingnwith the adjectives ‘gay’ and ‘normal'”nShe would bring to an end the Democrats’n”gigantic bureaucracy” withnwhich they “coddle and care for ansubculture of wastrels, ghouls, vagrants,nand perverts.”nNewspaper reporters and columnistsntell her they think she’s a kook. ShenFirst Acts: A MemoirnB. L. Reidnexplains — patiently, ploddingly, Inimagine — that the media consistentlyncensor her opinions, and that only bynproducing “hot copy” does she have anchance to get some coverage. Doesn’tnevery terrorist and nightclub entertainernknow this? “If I get enough attentionnas a kook, and someone takesndown a little bit of what I say, perhaps anglimmer of truth gets through,” is hownshe puts it. She’s willing to spend hernown cash to take the chance.nHere’s what all of her voluminousnwriting and speaking seem to boil downnto: “If I had Frank Fahrenkopf’s job [asnhead of the National Republican Party],nI would point out to the nation’snRepublican candidates the simple factnthat most American homes have rulesnwhich all members of the family obey.nCertain rudenesses are not tolerated.nIsn’t our country the home of all itsnresidents? Don’t we have a right to saynthat certain rudenesses and ridiculousnforms of behavior will not be toleratednin the United States of America?”nOne would hope so—but apparentlynonly a kook would say so.nJane Greer will flip a coin onnNovember 8.n”Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Reid does more thanntake us on a ramble through an interesting life. In recreatingnthe small personal and family events, the peoplenand places, that informed his maturing until age 28, hensuccessfully evokes milieux and the feel of ways ofnliving long since vanished”—Kirfeus.n” ‘A masterful account of a humble beginning”—Sout