Books: Autumn Leaves

U.S. publishers figure that when Labor Day comes, Christmas shopping cannot be far behind, and try to get most of their wares into the shops sometime before December. Some of the books will become bestsellers, some will go unnoticed in the frantic publishing rush. Among new books now on the shelves:

HITLER, by Otto Dietrich (277 pp.; Regnery; $3.95), an authoritative close-up of the Führer by his old "chief of press relations," who manfully avoids the sour self-pity of most Nazi memoirs and speaks with the incoherent sincerity of someone trying to explain an evil dream. Journalist Dietrich (he died in 1952...

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