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THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1964, by Theodore H. White. The author's reporting skills are partly wasted on an election notably lacking in excitement or color. But the reader is rewarded with all the hot-line conversations and every last ravel in the G.O.P. sleave of care.
MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. Authentic writing about the prairie of the 1840s when huge herds of swift, hardy mustangs had the run of the great plains. Then, in one brutal decade, they were tamed or killed in the frontiersmen's surge to the Rockies.
BOY GRAVELY, by Iris Dornfeld. A novel written by a musician about a slum boy who composes an electronic symphony from the sounds he has heard all his life and finally gets to hear it performed in the Hollywood Bowl. In telling about this unlikely hero, the author delineates the terrible disease and destiny that is genius.
THE MEMOIRS OF PANCHO VILLA, by Martin Luis Guzman. Long a confidant of Villa, Guzman has assembled the story of his life. There are gaps, but this is close to the definitive biography of the fiery Mexican leader who died an illiterate 42 years ago.
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