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A COVENANT WITH DEATH, by Stephen Becker. A tale of two murder trials told with convincing characterization and uncommon wit behind a smooth facade of Perry Masonry.
FRIEDA LAWRENCE, edited by E. W. Tedlock Jr. In the correspondence and other collected writings of his wife, D. H. Lawrence is pictured as more prig than immoralist, she as a lesser but fascinating Lawrencian heroine.
THE FOUNDING FATHER, by Richard Whalen. The thorough chronicle of how Joseph P. Kennedy, the son of a barkeeper-politician, became a millionaire financier and the father of a President.
THE HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, by John O'Hara. Though he has written so many short stories that they are now debased by the illusion of sameness, O'Hara still gives the sting of fresh work to this, his fourth assemblage within four years.
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