More September Titles: The latest novel by Graham Greene is Monsignor Quixote (Simon & Schuster, $12.95), a contemporary—and much slighter—version of the Cervantes story. . . . Pound/ Ford: The Story of a Literary Friendship (New Directions, $29.95), edited and with an introduction and commentary by Brita Lindberg-Seyersted, is an interesting volume about a thirty-year-long friendship between two very dissimilar writers.
John Barker’s The Superhistorians: Makers of Our Past (Scribner’s, $ 19.95) is a study of 13 Western writers (Herodotus and Thucydides; Toynbee and Wells; Augustine and Machiavelli; etc.) whose works illustrate the theory that “The history of history is at bottom the story of man reappraising himself.” . . . Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman 1949- 1953 (Norton, $19.95) is the second and concluding volume of an admiring study by a solid historian named Robert J. Donovan, formerly head of the Washington Bureau of the Los Angeles Times. . . . Big Business and Presidential Power: From FDR to Reagan (Morrow, $17), by Jim McQuaid, is an interesting study of how businessmen have learned to profit from their forced relationship with activist government. . . . John Dornberg’s Munich 1923: The First Full Story of Hitler’s Early Grab for Power (Harper & Row, $16.95) looks like a fascinating account of the Beer Hall Putsch, in which Hitler tried but failed to seize the Bavarian government. The future Führer fled into the Alps, where he attempted the suicide he achieved 22 years later.
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