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□ More November Titles: In his new book, The Zero-Sum Solution: Building a World-Class American Economy (Simon & Schuster, $18.95), Lester C. Thurow warns that domestic and foreign-trade deficits threaten the United States with economic collapse comparable to that of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as twentiethcentury Britain, and argues that in order to forestall the catastrophe the Democratic Party must restructure the economy from the ground up through tax reform, savings incentives, and a spirit of corporate partnership between labor, management, and shareholders. … A Grand Strategy for the West (Yale, $12.95), by Helmut Schmidt, consists of the Henry L. Stimson Lectures delivered by the former chancellor of West Germany, who argues here for the necessity of repairing the disarray of the Western alliance.

In PR: How the Public Relations Industry Writes the News (Morrow, $17.95), Jeff and Marie Blyskal describe the process by which public-relations experts, most of them with newsroom experience, foist their own interpretations of events upon the media, which proceed to publish them as “news.”

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□ More November Titles: In his new book, The Zero-Sum Solution: Building a World-Class American Economy (Simon & Schuster, $18.95), Lester C. Thurow warns that domestic and foreign-trade deficits threaten the United States with economic collapse comparable to that of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as twentiethcentury Britain, and argues that in order to forestall the catastrophe the Democratic Party must restructure the economy from the ground up through tax reform, savings incentives, and a spirit of corporate partnership between labor, management, and shareholders. … A Grand Strategy for the West (Yale, $12.95), by Helmut Schmidt, consists of the Henry L. Stimson Lectures delivered by the former chancellor of West Germany, who argues here for the necessity of repairing the disarray of the Western alliance.

In PR: How the Public Relations Industry Writes the News (Morrow, $17.95), Jeff and Marie Blyskal describe the process by which public-relations experts, most of them with newsroom experience, foist their own interpretations of events upon the media, which proceed to publish them as “news.”