John J. Pitney Jr., WEEKLY STANDARD contributor and professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, is just out with a new book, The Art of Political Warfare (University of Oklahoma Press). As his title suggests, Pitney has catalogued -- brilliantly -- the various ways in which public life in modern America has come to resemble armed combat. Which seems an especially timely project given the Gore blitzkrieg now underway in Florida. THE SCRAPBOOK urges you to buy a copy of Pitney's book immediately.