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THE PUMP HOUSE GANG and THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, by Tom Wolfe. America's foremost and wittiest pop journalist presents a swinging mixed-media word show of articles about life styles and a nonfictional novel about the peregrinations of Novelist Ken Kesey and his acid-generation Pranksters.
THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE, by J.J. Servan-Schreiber. One of France's best-known journalists warns that his nation must institute sweeping educational, technological and managerial changes if it hopes to be influential in the modern world.
BRING LARKS AND HEROES, by Thomas Keneally. The love, rebellion and death of a young soldier garrisoned at an 18th century Australian penal colony.
THE CASE AGAINST CONGRESS, by Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. Misfeasance, malfeasance and other assorted knaveries by federal legislators are uncovered by the team of political columnists.
THE DANCE OF GENGHIS COHN, by Romain Gary. The classic Jewish gambit—finding macabre humor in extreme tribulation—is used with uncommon originality in this allegorical novel of genocide and national guilt.
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FICTION
1. Airport, Hailey (1 last week) 2. True Grit, Portis (3) 3. Couples, Updike (2) 4. Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell (4) 5. Heaven Help Us, Tarr (7) 6. Red Sky at Morning, Bradford (6) 7. Topaz, Uris (5) 8. The Queen's Confession, Holt (10) 9. The Senator, Pearson (9) 10. Vanished, Knebel
NONFICTION
1. The Rich and the Super-Rich, Lundberg (1) 2. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (2) 3. The American Challenge, Servan-Schreiber (4) 4. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe (3) 5. Iberia, Michener (5) 6. The Case Against Congress, Pearson and Anderson 7. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (6) 8. The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet, Stillman and Baker (8) 9. Soul on Ice, Cleaver (7) 10. The Naked Ape, Morris (10)
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