Books of Interest

The White Nile, by Alan Moorehead (Harper, $5.95). The story of the exploration and exploitation of Central Africa, and of the men who opened it up— men who could “not bear to look over the other side of the next hill.”

The Earl of Louisiana, by A. J. Liebling (Simon & Schuster, $5.95). A first-rate profile of Earl Long, that tough, funny, most extravagant flower of American pragmatism. “What are you going to do now?” he once asked Leander Perez. “The Feds have got the atom bomb.”