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Some August Titles: After Jennie dies of leukemia, Oliver is in the “emotional deep freeze” for a time, then goes jogging and meets a luscious blonde. To discover whether she develops multiple sclerosis, read Oliver’s Story (Harper, $6.95) by Erich Segal…. Russell Kirk descends from the academy and enters the sepulchre to contribute a ghost story to Frights: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Terror (St. Martin’s, $8.95), edited by Kirby McCauley…. George C. Marshall offers you Memoirs of My Services in the World War 1917-1918 (Houghton Mifflin, $10)…. Edward Crankshaw, in The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia’s Drift to Revolution, 1825-1917 (Viking, $12.50), portrays an era when Russia’s rulers were at least not their country’s sole native criminal class…. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s three major addresses since his expulsion in 1974 are now available as Speeches to the Americans (Farrar, $5.95; paper, $1.50).

Page Smith argues, in Jefferson: A Revealing Biography (American Heritage, $12.50), that Jefferson was essentially a creative artist rather than a statesman…. Charles_Y. Glock and Robert N. Bellah have written a scholarly tome called The New Religious Consciousness (University of California, $14.95) whose theme is that within the youth culture belief in a personal God is in decline. As, of course, is belief in the personal godliness of young people…. Given a readable translation, Thomas Kiernan’s Arafat: The Man and the Myth (Norton, $9.95) might grow better on the West Bank than olive trees… The Moscow Scene (Stein & Day, $8.95) by Geoffrey Bocca presents a portrait of an oppressed society whose women have yet to be told about The Pill…. David G. Morley’s book is called The Missing Links: Golf and the Mind (Atheneum/SMI, $8.95); it starts out from the premise that golf is “90 per cent a mental sport,” and sounds suspiciously like an ingenious attempt to rehabilitate Modern Republicanism.

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Some August Titles: After Jennie dies of leukemia, Oliver is in the “emotional deep freeze” for a time, then goes jogging and meets a luscious blonde. To discover whether she develops multiple sclerosis, read Oliver’s Story (Harper, $6.95) by Erich Segal…. Russell Kirk descends from the academy and enters the sepulchre to contribute a ghost story to Frights: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Terror (St. Martin’s, $8.95), edited by Kirby McCauley…. George C. Marshall offers you Memoirs of My Services in the World War 1917-1918 (Houghton Mifflin, $10)…. Edward Crankshaw, in The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia’s Drift to Revolution, 1825-1917 (Viking, $12.50), portrays an era when Russia’s rulers were at least not their country’s sole native criminal class…. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s three major addresses since his expulsion in 1974 are now available as Speeches to the Americans (Farrar, $5.95; paper, $1.50).

Page Smith argues, in Jefferson: A Revealing Biography (American Heritage, $12.50), that Jefferson was essentially a creative artist rather than a statesman…. Charles_Y. Glock and Robert N. Bellah have written a scholarly tome called The New Religious Consciousness (University of California, $14.95) whose theme is that within the youth culture belief in a personal God is in decline. As, of course, is belief in the personal godliness of young people…. Given a readable translation, Thomas Kiernan’s Arafat: The Man and the Myth (Norton, $9.95) might grow better on the West Bank than olive trees… The Moscow Scene (Stein & Day, $8.95) by Geoffrey Bocca presents a portrait of an oppressed society whose women have yet to be told about The Pill…. David G. Morley’s book is called The Missing Links: Golf and the Mind (Atheneum/SMI, $8.95); it starts out from the premise that golf is “90 per cent a mental sport,” and sounds suspiciously like an ingenious attempt to rehabilitate Modern Republicanism.