David Lloyd George: A Political Life. The Architect of Change, 1863-1912 by BentleyBrinkerhoff GilbertReview by: Fritz SternForeign Affairs, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Fall, 1987), p. 199Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20043334 .

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FIDEL AND RELIGION: CASTRO TALKS ON REVOLUTION AND RELIGION WITH FREI BETTO. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987, 314 pp. $19.95.

A Dominican priest from Brazil reports on 23 hours of conversation

with Fidel Castro, who now asserts that religion can be a stimulant as well as an opiate. A Marxist can be a Christian and a Christian can work with a

Marxist government: "What is important in both cases is a question of

sincere revolutionaries disposed to abolish the exploitation of man by man."

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POLITICS AND PETROLEUM IN ECUADOR. By John D. Martz. New Brunswick (N.J.): Transaction Books, 1987, 345 pp. $34.95.

This is an analysis of the Ecuadorian military regime of 1972-79 and

the democratic government of 1979-84 in terms of petroleum politics. The

author describes the domestic, international and multinational corporate

pressures at work, and sees the Ecuadorian future as ambiguous, since he

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DAVID LLOYD GEORGE: A POLITICAL LIFE. THE ARCHITECT OF CHANGE, 1863-1912. By Bentley Brinkerhoff Gilbert. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1987, 546 pp. $40.00.

An overly elaborate biography of one of the titans of 20th-century British politics, breaking off just before his emergence as the dominant leader during and after the Great War. Copious citations from unpublished sources give breadth to this study of a full-time professional politician with radical passion and ambition. He turned an impoverished childhood in

Wales into a permanent political asset and still resented that, at Balmoral, the Court with its Tory atmosphere showed "everybody very civil to me as

they would be to a dangerous wild animal. ..." The book is good on his conversion from a pro- to an anti-German position between 1908 and 1911, but is otherwise and understandably devoted to Lloyd George's part in

domestic politics and his preeminent role in fashioning the New Liberalism.

DIVISION AND DETENTE: THE GERMANIES AND THEIR ALLI ANCES. By Eric G. Frey. New York: Praeger, 1987, 194 pp. $33.95.

A lucid account of German-German relations, a subject of great impor tance and murkiness. Frey argues persuasively that close relations between the two German states signal not the desire for?let alone the coming of?

reunification, but a continuing political accommodation to the status quo. A useful, timely and astoundingly up-to-date analysis.

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