Book Reviews : The Superfluous Anarchist: Albert Jay Nock. By MICHAEL WRESZIN. (Providence: Brown University Press, 1972. PP. xi, 196. $8.50.)

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as &dquo;any organization that requires prospective candidates to acquire a college education in order to be eligible for recruitment ... ,&dquo; do not create confidence: neither the military nor the foreign service requires a college degree. Except for a distrust of communism and of disarmament, it is not made clear in what way the beliefs of the military are more &dquo;hard-line&dquo; than their counterparts in diplomacy. Thus the chapter on &dquo;Foreign Policy Beliefs&dquo; is doubly disappointing: (a) it does not fulfill the promise of the book’s title, and (b) the reader is left totally in the dark as to what a &dquo;hard-line&dquo; policy might be, let us say, toward Japan, or Bangladesh, or Rhodesia.