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February Titles: Why Marxism? asks Robert G. Wesson, then offers droll and learned answers (Basic, $12.95) . . . The Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador Dali may not be mistitled (Morrow, $10) . . . Eagerly awaited by masochists: John V. Lindsay’s political novel, The Edge (Norton, $7.95). The same house offers one by MIT professor Peter Temin that may get looked at outside economics circles, Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? ($8.95) . . . Nixon media expert Bruce Herschensohn looks sourly at The Gods of Antenna (Arlington, $7.95). For the same publisher, retired British general Richard Clutterbuck has some ideas on how to carry on while Living with Terrorism ($7.95).

Just Out: ACLU boss Aryeh Neier has a solution to the crime problem in Crime and Punishment. And man bites dog (Stein & Day, $8.95). . . . NR religion editor Malachi Martin reviews six cases of exorcism in Hostage to the Devil (Reader’s Digest, $12.95). . . . Banned in Israel but issued here by Quadrangle is Matti Golan’s The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger ($8.95). . . . Still another scenario from Herman Kahn, The Next 200 Years (Praeger, $8.95, cloth; $3.95, paper). . . . Albert Speer publishes his prison diaries, Inside the Walls of Spandau (Macmillan, $12.95). . . . Memo to Old Girls from the Seven Sisters: Elaine Kendall reviews the past and present of each college in “Peculiar Institutions” (Putnam, $8.95). For the same house, Rita Kramer etches Maria Montessori ($10). . . . Irving Howe’s World of Our Fathers is a big history of East European Jews in the U.S. (Harcourt, $14.95). . . . Bowker is publishing biographical data on 4,000 Women in Public Office ($17.95). . . . John T. Noonan Jr. probes American legal traditions in Persons and Masks of the Law (Farrar, $10). . . . Andre Malraux is a new life by Jean Lacouture (Pantheon, $12.95). . . . In Cagney by Cagney, Gentleman Jimmy reports that “my strong conservatism has placed me generally in John Wayne’s camp” (Doubleday, $8.95). . . . Hardbound from Mason/Charter ($9.95) and a paperback from Manor ($1.95): The Wallace Factor by Philip Grass. … For $6.95, you can have your very own Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual from Ballantine.

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February Titles: Why Marxism? asks Robert G. Wesson, then offers droll and learned answers (Basic, $12.95) . . . The Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador Dali may not be mistitled (Morrow, $10) . . . Eagerly awaited by masochists: John V. Lindsay’s political novel, The Edge (Norton, $7.95). The same house offers one by MIT professor Peter Temin that may get looked at outside economics circles, Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? ($8.95) . . . Nixon media expert Bruce Herschensohn looks sourly at The Gods of Antenna (Arlington, $7.95). For the same publisher, retired British general Richard Clutterbuck has some ideas on how to carry on while Living with Terrorism ($7.95).

Just Out: ACLU boss Aryeh Neier has a solution to the crime problem in Crime and Punishment. And man bites dog (Stein & Day, $8.95). . . . NR religion editor Malachi Martin reviews six cases of exorcism in Hostage to the Devil (Reader’s Digest, $12.95). . . . Banned in Israel but issued here by Quadrangle is Matti Golan’s The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger ($8.95). . . . Still another scenario from Herman Kahn, The Next 200 Years (Praeger, $8.95, cloth; $3.95, paper). . . . Albert Speer publishes his prison diaries, Inside the Walls of Spandau (Macmillan, $12.95). . . . Memo to Old Girls from the Seven Sisters: Elaine Kendall reviews the past and present of each college in “Peculiar Institutions” (Putnam, $8.95). For the same house, Rita Kramer etches Maria Montessori ($10). . . . Irving Howe’s World of Our Fathers is a big history of East European Jews in the U.S. (Harcourt, $14.95). . . . Bowker is publishing biographical data on 4,000 Women in Public Office ($17.95). . . . John T. Noonan Jr. probes American legal traditions in Persons and Masks of the Law (Farrar, $10). . . . Andre Malraux is a new life by Jean Lacouture (Pantheon, $12.95). . . . In Cagney by Cagney, Gentleman Jimmy reports that “my strong conservatism has placed me generally in John Wayne’s camp” (Doubleday, $8.95). . . . Hardbound from Mason/Charter ($9.95) and a paperback from Manor ($1.95): The Wallace Factor by Philip Grass. … For $6.95, you can have your very own Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual from Ballantine.