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VANITY OF DULUOZ, by Jack Kerouac. The beat hero of the 1950s shows himself to be the prodigal returned in this autobiographical novel of a man who regains his innocence.
CONTACT ON GORKY STREET, by Greville Wynne. Spying and its hazards are brought into chilling focus in this memoir of a British agent who was an important channel of information before his discovery by the Russians.
DEATH IN LIFE: SURVIVORS OF HIROSHIMA, by Robert Jay Lifton. An American psychiatrist discerns the effects of large-scale disasters on behavior as he sifts the recollections of 75 Japanese who lived through the first atomic bombing.
THE CODEBREAKERS, by David Kahn. More than 1,000 pages of cryptologic lore, including accounts of how ciphers changed the currents of history.
TO BROOKLYN WITH LOVE, by Gerald Green. The author of The Last Angry Man summons up the sights and sounds of the 1930s in this novel about a wild summer in the life of a 12-year-old boy.
THE NAKED APE, A ZOOLOGIST'S STUDY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL, by Desmond Morris. A controversial romp through millions of years of man's evolution, concluding that man may be the sexiest but not the sanest primate.
MAKING IT, by Norman Podhoretz. The literary critic and editor of Commentary contends that the "dirty little secret" of the age is not sex but the lust for money, fame and power.
TOLSTOY, by Henri Troyat. Making masterly use of mountains of documents and diaries, the Russian-born biographer forges an unforgettable portrait of one of literature's greatest figures.
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