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words in the novel, "so one -3- . can't quite ‘scream anti-Semitism’ at the author, even though the plot of 'The Canfield Decision’ bears the terror- ist out." The New York Times book-reviewer added that the story was "over- detailed, the dialogue overexplicit, the characters overcliched, and the work left to the reader's imagination overlooked," and that, asa result, the story tended to disappear from sight -- “everything, that is, except ~~ his (Agnew's) theory about overinfluential Jews." Martin Levine, in his column, "The Book Shelf," in the Newark Star- Ledger of May 16, in which he termed Agnew's book "anti-press" and "anti- Semitic," also pointed out what he viewed as examples of the former Vice President-~-turned-author's bias against the media and Jews. He charged: "In the first chapter alone, a steward guesses that he'll ‘never learn to move fast enough to run booze to those newsies'; a secret serviceman muses about the unfounded accusations of advocacy journalism'; crowd estimates are said to vary accord- ing ta thea wav tha Cnet A nl Meee OT edd Witter wanarvtor {Peele ashovt Vice President he Pe ee Leeuw ae ree eo SS ea Canfield’; television cameramen are described as locking for ‘open-mouth mastication or an errant dribble of gravy down a distinguished chin'; Canfield grumbles inwardly about ‘edit- orialists, columnists and other foreign policy amateurs,' and, after a particularly 'insolent' question, he neatly upbreids the reporters traveling with him and smiles to himself as he walks away. "The narrator also noted that ‘at the press table... less than 15 per cent was not Jewish.‘ Later, in terms strikingly reminiscent of those used by a U.S. general a few years ago, the leading Persian-protector explains that ‘American Jews » » « are the strongest single influence in the big media,' besides controlling ‘much of the financial community, and through it, large segments of the academic community.’ Key people in the press (and therefore the Jews) are shown sec- retly coordinating Aceording ta Netwewaek rding to Newsweek 37,000 orders on an advance policies." Press has already taken printing of 50,000 copies of "The Canfield Decision" and put aside 25,000 more copies for its book club. The director of Playboy Press' book division has been quoted as saying that the book could earn its author "half a million dollars."