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The Future of Mankind, by Karl Jaspers. The prose of an author who is both a German and an existentialist is bound to be somewhat murky, but Jaspers advances powerful arguments against both easy despair and easy optimism about the human condition.
Raditzer, by Peter Matthiessen. Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of a parasite and a host—the one a whining Army goldbricker, the other a strong and decent man who is subtly chivied into becoming the sniveler's protector.
The White Nile, by Alan Moorehead.
A readable but perhaps too brief account of those redoubtable Victorians—Burton, Speke, Stanley, Livingstone, Gordon, Kitchener—who explored the upper reaches of the Nile, taking pestilence and polygamy as they found them.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Hawaii, Michener (2)* 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (1) 3. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (4) 4. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (3) 5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (5) 6. The Dean's Watch, Goudge (6) 7. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (7) 8. Shadows in the Grass, Dinesen 9. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (9) 10. The Lovely Ambition, Chase (8)
NONFICTION
1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) 2. The Waste Makers, Packard (2) 3. Who Killed Society? Amory (3) 4. The Snake Has All the Lines, Kerr (4) 5. Born Free, Adamson (5) 6. Vanity Fair, ed. by Amory and Bradlee (8) 7. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (9) 8. Baruch: The Public Years (7) 9. The Politics of Upheaval, Schlesinger (6) 10. We Hold These Truths, Murray (10)
* All times E.S.T.
* Position on last week's list.