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NEW AMERICAN REVIEW: NUMBER 1, New American Library. A lively blend of the best contemporary avant-garde fiction, nonfiction, poetry and criticism collected in a commendable effort to sell quality in quantity in the paperback market.
GOG, by Andrew Sinclair. A bizarre fable—or parable—about an amnesic giant who makes a bewildering pilgrimage through history in quest of himself.
DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer. Poetic photography adds luster to a distinguished prose picture of Dublin's streets and people.
STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. A German historian tells the story of the aristocratic colonel whose attempt to assassinate Hitler with a planted bomb was foiled by freakish chance.
AN OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. A fast-paced World War II sea yarn that dramatizes the futility of applying humane law to war.
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The events that led to the Kerensky revolution and the Bolshevik coup d'état are told in terms of the two royal Romanovs, seen as neither ogres nor icons but as tragic simpletons.
RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. Through the inchoate words and deeds of the Watts rioters, a Los Angeles newsman evokes the agonies of the big-city ghetto.
INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. By rebalancing the Pacific campaign on the fulcrum of the Battle of Midway, a noted teller of sea stories (A Night to Remember, Day of Infamy) shows why Japan lost World War II.
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FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)
2. The Chosen, Potok (4)
3. The Plot, Wallace (3)
4. A Night of Watching, Arnold (6)
5. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (8)
6. Washington, D.C., Vidal (7)
7. The Eighth Day, Wilder (5)
8. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (2)
9. An Operational Necessity, Griffin (9)
10. All the Little Live Things, Stegner
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1. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (1)
2. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (2)
3. Our Crowd, Birmingham (3)
4. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (8)
5. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (4)
6. Incredible Victory, Lord (7)
7. The Lawyers, Mayer (10)
8. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (9)
9. Everything But Money, Levenson (5)
10. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Steam (6)
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