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JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A clinical closeup of the most powerful ironist in British letters, who was also the blackest of all the great blackguards to lacerate man's conscience, until his own raging soul sank into stupor and lunacy.
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF JEAN MACAQUE, by Stuart Cloete. Rollicking from bed to bed in Boccaccio-like revelries, a fictional philandering journalist discovers between the sheets that erotic pleasures are man's refuge from death and despair.
LOVE AND REVOLUTION, by Max Eastman. The autobiography of a onetime radical editor and longtime happy warrior against repression, be it sexual (he once shared a mistress with Charlie Chaplin) or Communist.
FRIEDA LAWRENCE, edited by E. W. Tedlock Jr. The letters, essays and memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife etch her as a Lawrencian nymph who drove the prophet of free sex to Victorian rage.
THE FOUNDING FATHER, by Richard Whalen. The intriguing saga of Joseph P. Kennedy, son of a barkeeper-politician, and how he acquired his millions and founded a political dynasty.
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FICTION
1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week)
2. The Man, Wallace (3)
3. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (2)
4. The Horse Knows the Way, O'Hara (4)
5. Funeral in Berlin, Deighton
6. Hurry Sundown, Gilden
7. This Rough Magic, Stewart (6)
8. Julian, Vidal (9)
9. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (8)
10. Covenant with Death, Becker
NONFICTION
1. Markings, Hammarskjold (1)
2. Reminiscences, MacArthur (2)
3. The Italians, Barzini (3)
4. The Kennedy Years, The New York Times and Viking Press (4)
5. The Founding Father, Whalen (5)
6. The Words, Sartre (8)
7. My Autobiography, Chaplin (6)
8. Life with Picasso, Gilot and Lake (7)
9. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (10)
10. Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, Farago
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