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Looking toward February: W. A. Swanberg follows up his lives of Hearst and Pulitzer with a massive bio of Henry Luce (Scribner, $15). . . . Sean is a biography by Eileen O’Casey, the playwright’s widow (Coward, McCann, $7.95). . . . Now that she’s split with Gene, how candid will Abigail McCarthy be in her memoir From the Beginning (Doubleday, $8.95)? … A World in Revolution is the autobiography of a man who helped to put it there, Herbert L. Matthews (Scribner, $10). . . . Mailer’s Existential Errands includes an open letter to Richard Nixon (Little, Brown, $6.95). . . . Polish émigré Leopold Tyrmand calls Communism “the worst plague ever to befall mankind” in The Rosa Luxemburg Contraceptives Cooperative (Macmillan, $6.95).

Year One of the Russian Revolution is an eyewitness account by Victor Serge (Holt, $9.95). . . . Has the Catholic Church Gone Mad? asks British author John Eppstein (Arlington House, $6.95). From the same publisher, cancer specialist Dr. Boris Sokoloff does a biopsy on The Permissive Society ($8.95). . . . Edmund Muskie’s offering in the election-year sweepstakes is Journeys (Doubleday, $5.95).

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Looking toward February: W. A. Swanberg follows up his lives of Hearst and Pulitzer with a massive bio of Henry Luce (Scribner, $15). . . . Sean is a biography by Eileen O’Casey, the playwright’s widow (Coward, McCann, $7.95). . . . Now that she’s split with Gene, how candid will Abigail McCarthy be in her memoir From the Beginning (Doubleday, $8.95)? … A World in Revolution is the autobiography of a man who helped to put it there, Herbert L. Matthews (Scribner, $10). . . . Mailer’s Existential Errands includes an open letter to Richard Nixon (Little, Brown, $6.95). . . . Polish émigré Leopold Tyrmand calls Communism “the worst plague ever to befall mankind” in The Rosa Luxemburg Contraceptives Cooperative (Macmillan, $6.95).

Year One of the Russian Revolution is an eyewitness account by Victor Serge (Holt, $9.95). . . . Has the Catholic Church Gone Mad? asks British author John Eppstein (Arlington House, $6.95). From the same publisher, cancer specialist Dr. Boris Sokoloff does a biopsy on The Permissive Society ($8.95). . . . Edmund Muskie’s offering in the election-year sweepstakes is Journeys (Doubleday, $5.95).