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□ Left Over from July: In Klass: How Russians Really Live (St. Martin’s, $16.95), David K. Willis reports on the various classes composing the “classless society,” the dominant one being the “rising class” of upper bourgeois, which by managing to corner all kinds of goods in a society marked by shortages of nearly everything has started a consumer boom of sorts.

Oral Roberts: An American Life (Indiana, $24.95 to December 31; $29.95 thereafter), by David Edwin Harrell Jr., professor of history at the University of Arkansas, is the first major biography of the Pentecostalist and faith healer, and it throws much light on the culture of evangelical America.

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□ Left Over from July: In Klass: How Russians Really Live (St. Martin’s, $16.95), David K. Willis reports on the various classes composing the “classless society,” the dominant one being the “rising class” of upper bourgeois, which by managing to corner all kinds of goods in a society marked by shortages of nearly everything has started a consumer boom of sorts.

Oral Roberts: An American Life (Indiana, $24.95 to December 31; $29.95 thereafter), by David Edwin Harrell Jr., professor of history at the University of Arkansas, is the first major biography of the Pentecostalist and faith healer, and it throws much light on the culture of evangelical America.