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THE NADER REPORT OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION by Edward F. Cox, Robert C. Fellmeth and John E. Schulz. 230 pages. Baron. $5.95. A tell-it-like-it-is indictment of one of Washington's most slovenly agencies. One can only hope that, like the Hardy boys, Ralph Nader's student crusaders will follow up with a full-scale series.
THE LONGEST MILE by Rena Gazaway. 348 pages. Doubleday. $6.95. A pathetic attempt to do for Appalachia what Agee and Evans did so beautifully for Alabama 28 years ago in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
SYNDICATE ABROAD by Hank Messick. 246 pages. Macmillan. $5.95. This nononsense, all-business book, the fourth Messick "Syndicate" title in three years, bears down on the Bahamas, wonder drug for February sufferers and haven for the U.S. gamblers and tax-afflicted.
THE GREAT PORT: A PASSAGE THROUGH NEW YORK by James Morris. 223 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $5.95. The well-known Welsh author-traveler tracing the times and tides of a famous city. Though he is given to locutions like "the noble Hudson," it's not a bad book to visit.
THE LONG-WINDED LADY by Maeve Brennan. 238 pages. Morrow. $6. Collected from The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section, these bleak reportorial vignettes of life in Manhattan create the impression of a raw private perception struggling against total loneliness: the great city observed by a see-ing-eye God.
EARTH SHINE by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 73 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $5.75. Maundering on about the moon launch and a trip she took to Africa, the author searches for miracles—and too easily finds them. She is much given to expostulation!
ALTERNATIVE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA by Eugene R. Black. 180 pages. Praeger. $5.95. A prescription for Southeast Asia after Viet Nam by the former head of the World Bank: economic development through regional cooperation.
BRITAIN FACES EUROPE by Roberf L. Pfaltzgraff Jr. 288 pages. University of
Pennsylvania. $6. A dry study of how the private sector in Britain helped shape foreign policy between 1957 and 1967, particularly Britain's assaults on the European Common Market.
THE IDEA OF THE JEWISH STATE by Ben Halpern. 493 pages. Harvard University. $15. The 19th century European "Jewish problem" was never solved; it just moved to the Middle East. Through the thickets of history and power politics, Halpern maneuvers with rare discernment and objectivity, giving an account of both the Jewish state and its hostile neighbors.
RUSSIA, HOPES AND FEARS by Alexander Werth. 352 pages. Simon & Schuster. $6.95. The fear is a return "to some fiendish kind of Stalinism." The hope is the liberalization of Soviet society. But Werth, who escaped St. Petersburg as a boy and later served in Moscow as a French correspondent, examines recent Russian history with barely repressible optimism.
THE PLAN-AHEAD COOKBOOK: 300 DELECTABLE WAYS TO USE YOUR LEFTOVERS by Cecil Dyer. 246 pages. Macmillan. $5.95. Why don't you go ahead and eat, dear? I'll grab something on the way home.