Books: Deep in the Heart Of

THE SUPER-AMERICANS (395 pp.) —John Bainbridge—Doubleday ($5.95).

If there still is an American Dream, the State of Texas is the American Dreamland. Here flourish the myths—of slim-hipped, soft-voiced frontiersmen and sky-eyed, sexy gals; of boom town bragging and spaces that are Great and Open; of easy wheeling and cool dealing that turn a fortune at the breakfast table and double it at the barbecue; of a DC-3 on every private airstrip and His and Her Cadillacs in every garage.

Just how close the dream is to reality is lovingly explored in John Bainbridge's study...