Books, Arts & Manners: Random Notes

Some May Titles: Defending America: Toward a New Role in the Post-Detente World (Basic, $13.95) consists of essays by such defense experts as Theodore Draper, Paul H. Nitze, Albert Wohlstetter, et al., and bears an Introduction by James R. Schlesinger. They conclude that the United States currently finds itself in a seriously disadvantaged position vis-à-vis the USSR. . . . Oscar Lewis’ posthumously published book, called Four Men: Living the Revolution—An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba (University of Illinois, $15), was coauthored by Ruth M. Lewis and Susan M. Rigdon. Lewis and company interviewed four Cubans and their families in an Havana slum. Despite their liberation by Marxist slogans, the four men continue to be both racist and sexist. . . . Florence King argues in WASP, Where Is Thy Sting? (Stein & Day, $8.95) that WASPs have been forced into second-class citizenship. . . . Kate Millett’s new book is Sita (Farrar, $10), about another of the author’s lesbian affairs. . . . Daniel Berrigan now lives in Detroit, whence cometh the inspiration for A Book of Parables (Sea-bury Press, $7.95). Among those parables are “The Body Count of King David” and “Eve and the Bible Salesman.” . . . Jules Feiffer plays havoc with the traditional mystery novel in Ackroyd (Simon and Schuster, $8.95). . . . Insanity Runs in Our Family (Doubleday, $8.95) is the title of Hal Bennett’s new collection of 15 short stories.

Claude Manceron’s Twilight of the Old Order, 1774-1778: The Early Years of Louis XVI, from Louis XV’s Death to the Passing of Rousseau (Knopf, $15.95), translated by Patricia Wolf, is the first of eight volumes in a series called The French Revolution. . . . Stephen Birmingham’s latest book is Certain People: America’s Black Elite (Little, Brown, $8.95). . . . Carl Sagan, the astronomer, has been conducting researches into the development of the human brain, the fruit of which is a book, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Random House, $8.95). . . . Richard Meister and Anne Loftis—whose father was the historian Allan Nevins—have collaborated on A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America’s Farm Workers (Macmillan, $14.95).

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Some May Titles: Defending America: Toward a New Role in the Post-Detente World (Basic, $13.95) consists of essays by such defense experts as Theodore Draper, Paul H. Nitze, Albert Wohlstetter, et al., and bears an Introduction by James R. Schlesinger. They conclude that the United States currently finds itself in a seriously disadvantaged position vis-à-vis the USSR. . . . Oscar Lewis’ posthumously published book, called Four Men: Living the Revolution—An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba (University of Illinois, $15), was coauthored by Ruth M. Lewis and Susan M. Rigdon. Lewis and company interviewed four Cubans and their families in an Havana slum. Despite their liberation by Marxist slogans, the four men continue to be both racist and sexist. . . . Florence King argues in WASP, Where Is Thy Sting? (Stein & Day, $8.95) that WASPs have been forced into second-class citizenship. . . . Kate Millett’s new book is Sita (Farrar, $10), about another of the author’s lesbian affairs. . . . Daniel Berrigan now lives in Detroit, whence cometh the inspiration for A Book of Parables (Sea-bury Press, $7.95). Among those parables are “The Body Count of King David” and “Eve and the Bible Salesman.” . . . Jules Feiffer plays havoc with the traditional mystery novel in Ackroyd (Simon and Schuster, $8.95). . . . Insanity Runs in Our Family (Doubleday, $8.95) is the title of Hal Bennett’s new collection of 15 short stories.

Claude Manceron’s Twilight of the Old Order, 1774-1778: The Early Years of Louis XVI, from Louis XV’s Death to the Passing of Rousseau (Knopf, $15.95), translated by Patricia Wolf, is the first of eight volumes in a series called The French Revolution. . . . Stephen Birmingham’s latest book is Certain People: America’s Black Elite (Little, Brown, $8.95). . . . Carl Sagan, the astronomer, has been conducting researches into the development of the human brain, the fruit of which is a book, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Random House, $8.95). . . . Richard Meister and Anne Loftis—whose father was the historian Allan Nevins—have collaborated on A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America’s Farm Workers (Macmillan, $14.95).