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A THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Although Historian Schlesinger cannot altogether restrain his boundless admiration for the President he loved and served, this still is by far the best, and most balanced, assessment of the Kennedy years that has yet appeared.
THE EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. Because she writes with delicacy and precision and never succumbs to the obvious, Author Hazzard has produced a haunting and near-perfect first novel about the brief affair in Italy of two not-so-young, not-so-passionate lovers.
THE DAYS OF HENRY THOREAU, by Walter Harding. With this able biography, Thoreau Expert Harding seeks to show that the voice of Concord's consecrated crank, silenced a century ago, speaks more loudly than ever.
THE TEXAS RANGERS, by Walter Prescott Webb. A century of legalized carnage is described with scholarly precision and boyish glee in this definitive history—re-published for the first time since 1935—of a rootin', tootin', shootin', lootin' and generally low-falutin' organization that enforced the law and other unpopular prejudices during the winning of the Southwest.
SELECTED LETTERS OF MALCOLM LOWRY, edited by Harvey Breit and Margerie Bonner Lowry. A tragic novelist shows in his letters the courage and dedication to his craft that enabled him to produce his single masterpiece, Under the Volcano, a modern version of Dante's Inferno.
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