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More April Titles: Barry Goldwater explains why America is going down (not in the Joplinesque sense of the phrase) for the last time, in The Coming Breakpoint (Macmillan, $8.95). . . . Law ’n’ Order! The Peer Commission Report is being published as The Mylai Massacre and Its Coverup: Beyond the Reach of the Law? (Macmillan again, $10.95 cloth, $2.95 paper). . . . Joe McGinniss has a new book out in which he discusses heroes with various celebrities—anyway, that’s what it’s called, Heroes (Viking, $7.95). . . . “Woody . . . did it earliest, . . . Pete Seeger did it longest, Joan Baez did it the most artfully, Phil Ochs tried the hardest, young Bob Dylan did it best”: protested, that is, as you’ll learn from Jerome L. Rodnitsky’s Minstrels of the Dawn: The Folk-Protest Singer as a Cultural Hero (Nelson-Hall, $9.95). . . . That not all female depression in the 1930s was of the postpartum variety seems to be the burden of Jeanne Westin’s Ter-kelish Making Do: How Women Survived the Thirties (Follett, $9.95).

A recent victim of Robert Altman’s attack on opryland describes her progress from the blacklung belt to the leatherlung belt in (with George Vecsey) Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner’s Daughter (Regnery, $7.95). . . . John Keats, author of The Insolent Chariots, examines the intimate relationship between Thanksgiving turkeys and the Greyhound Bus line—and other contemporary gastronomic horrors—in Whatever Happened to Mom’s Apple Pie (Houghton Mifflin, $7.95). . . . “The foot is an erotic organ and the shoe is its covering,” says William A. Rossi in The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe (Saturday Review Press/Dutton, $10.95). . . . It may require all of Bruce Catton’s inexhaustible talents for vulgarization to make a bestseller of Michigan: A Bicentennial History (Norton, $8.95).

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More April Titles: Barry Goldwater explains why America is going down (not in the Joplinesque sense of the phrase) for the last time, in The Coming Breakpoint (Macmillan, $8.95). . . . Law ’n’ Order! The Peer Commission Report is being published as The Mylai Massacre and Its Coverup: Beyond the Reach of the Law? (Macmillan again, $10.95 cloth, $2.95 paper). . . . Joe McGinniss has a new book out in which he discusses heroes with various celebrities—anyway, that’s what it’s called, Heroes (Viking, $7.95). . . . “Woody . . . did it earliest, . . . Pete Seeger did it longest, Joan Baez did it the most artfully, Phil Ochs tried the hardest, young Bob Dylan did it best”: protested, that is, as you’ll learn from Jerome L. Rodnitsky’s Minstrels of the Dawn: The Folk-Protest Singer as a Cultural Hero (Nelson-Hall, $9.95). . . . That not all female depression in the 1930s was of the postpartum variety seems to be the burden of Jeanne Westin’s Ter-kelish Making Do: How Women Survived the Thirties (Follett, $9.95).

A recent victim of Robert Altman’s attack on opryland describes her progress from the blacklung belt to the leatherlung belt in (with George Vecsey) Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner’s Daughter (Regnery, $7.95). . . . John Keats, author of The Insolent Chariots, examines the intimate relationship between Thanksgiving turkeys and the Greyhound Bus line—and other contemporary gastronomic horrors—in Whatever Happened to Mom’s Apple Pie (Houghton Mifflin, $7.95). . . . “The foot is an erotic organ and the shoe is its covering,” says William A. Rossi in The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe (Saturday Review Press/Dutton, $10.95). . . . It may require all of Bruce Catton’s inexhaustible talents for vulgarization to make a bestseller of Michigan: A Bicentennial History (Norton, $8.95).