The New American State: Bureaucracies and Policies since World War II. Edited by Louis Galambos (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.227p. $27.50, cloth; $11.95, paper). - Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. By Robert Higgs (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xix, 350p. $24.95, cloth).