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More February Titles: Charles W. Akers’s Abigail Adams: An American Woman (Little, Brown, $9.95) contributes a volume to the literature accumulating about a lady who has lately shown signs of becoming a folk hero of sorts to the women’s movement. . . . Lois W. Banner’s Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women’s Rights (Little, Brown, $9.95) is a scholarly biography of a familiar, and rather dismal, old plug.

Burroughs Mitchell, who worked with Maxwell Perkins at Scribner’s and had under his care such authors as C. P. Snow, John Hall Wheelock, and W. A. Swanberg, has written a memoir called The Education of an Editor (Doubleday, $8.95). . . . George V. Higgins’s latest novel of the urban Irish, Kennedy for the Defense (Knopf, $9.95), is getting pleasant notices.

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More February Titles: Charles W. Akers’s Abigail Adams: An American Woman (Little, Brown, $9.95) contributes a volume to the literature accumulating about a lady who has lately shown signs of becoming a folk hero of sorts to the women’s movement. . . . Lois W. Banner’s Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women’s Rights (Little, Brown, $9.95) is a scholarly biography of a familiar, and rather dismal, old plug.

Burroughs Mitchell, who worked with Maxwell Perkins at Scribner’s and had under his care such authors as C. P. Snow, John Hall Wheelock, and W. A. Swanberg, has written a memoir called The Education of an Editor (Doubleday, $8.95). . . . George V. Higgins’s latest novel of the urban Irish, Kennedy for the Defense (Knopf, $9.95), is getting pleasant notices.