70 Year Magazine Archive

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Just Out: Robert Payne’s latest. The Great Man—A Portrait of Winston Churchill, is etched in acid (Coward, $10.95). . . . John Eisenhower dubs his memoir Strictly Personal (Doubleday, $10.95). . . . Rabbi Meir Kahane of the Jewish Defense League issues Our Challenge (Chilton, $7.95). … In Go East, Young Man, Justice Douglas carries his life story up to his Supreme Court appointment in 1939 (Random House, $10). . . . Written at 88 and published posthumously: Maritain’s On the Church of Christ (Notre Dame, $9.95; paper, $3.95). . . . James (The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism) Hitchcock now assays liturgical atrocities in The Recovery of the Sacred (Seabury, $6.95).

May Books: Three biographies from Putnam: the last of Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiography, All Said and Done ($7.95); Weekends, a memoir by Helena Rubinstein’s biographer Patrick O’Higgins ($7.95); Josh, the autobiography of Joshua Logan ($10). . . . James Baldwin’s new novel is called If Beale Street Could Talk (Dial, $6.95). . . . Three from Knopf: an Anthony Burgess novel based on Bonaparte and Beethoven’s Eroica ($6.95); B. F. Skinner’s What Behaviorism Is ($6.95); and a big, unflattering portrait by Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York ($15). . . . The Watergate book by Washington Postmen Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein is called All the President’s Men (Simon & Schuster, $7.95). . . . C. L. Sulzberger sketches Sino-Soviet conflicts in The Coldest War (Harcourt, $5.95).

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