■ More May Titles : Peter de Vries portrays a Middle West abandoned to the mores of the effete Northeast in I Hear America Swinging (Little, Brown, $7.95). . . . Odie B. Faulk describes an aspect of the early days of the late American Empire in The U.S. Camel Corps: An Army Experiment (Oxford, $9.95). . . . Isaac Asimov’s novel concerns murder at the American Booksellers Association convention in New York: Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes (Doubleday, $7.95). … If anybody can write readable “inspirational prose and poetry,” Elizabeth Goudge can, in A Book of Faith (Coward, McCann, $8.95). . . . The title of C. L. Sulzberger’s Go Gentle into the Night (Prentice-Hall, $6.95) refers not to the Communization of Europe but to the sentiments of an atheist who respects faith. . . . Marc Duke describes one family’s quest for a bigger bang for the buck in The DuPonts: Portrait of a Dynasty (Saturday Review Press/Dutton, $12.95). … A policeman’s lot is not a happy one in the South Bronx, according to Tom Walker’s Fort Apache: Life and Death in New York City’s Most Violent Precinct (Crowell, $7.95). . . . The title of Howard Teichmann’s book is markedly less witty than its subject: Smart Aleck: The Wit, World, and Life of Alexander Woollcott (Morrow, $10.95). . . . “The one book that tells each of us what it means to be an adult,” says an ad for Gail Sheehy’s Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life (Dutton, $9.95). . . . Frank MacShane has written a biography of the man who, with Dashiell Hammett, is generally credited with the invention of the detective story: Raymond Chandler (Dutton, $12.50).
Governor Edmund “Pat” Brown (with Bill Brown) announces that “Ronald Reagan’s election to the Presidency would be a ‘national disaster,’ ” in Reagan: The Political Chameleon (Praeger, $6.95). Prepare to observe Governor Brown II turn all the colors of the rainbow this political season. . . . Senator Mark O. Hatfield parades his conscience through Vietnam, Watergate, and White House prayer breakfasts in Between a Rock and a High Place (World Books, $7.95). . . . Pete “The Greek” Diapoulos and Steven Linakis discuss the Gallo gang in The Sixth Family (Dutton, $8.95). … A heart surgeon develops angina pectoris and falls under the knives of his colleagues in the patient’s own memoir, Dr. William Nolan’s Surgeon under the Knife (Coward, McCann, $8.95). . . . For those who still give a damn, the Great Gossip has been written up again, this time by Herman Klurfeld: Winchell: His Life and Times (Praeger, $8.95). . . . Duane Newcomb discusses cultivating zucchini on the balcony, in The Apartment Farmer (Hawthorne; cloth $7.95, paper $4.95). . . . Bob Herwig and Margot Schubert discuss the arrangement, care, and feeding of the dummies in The Treasury of Houseplants (Macmillan, $12.95).
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