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More July Titles: With the publication of The Sage of Monticello (Little, Brown, $19.95), Dumas Malone concludes his six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson. This final one covers Jefferson’s last 17 years, from his retirement as President in 1809 to his death in 1826. . . . T. Harry Williams’s The History of American Wars: From Colonial Times to World War I (Knopf, $20) is being published posthumously.. Williams died before he could bring his account through the Vietnam conflict. . . . Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Cultural Independence in America (Viking, $20), by Larzer Ziff, is a study of the emergence of a distinctive American literature between the Panic of 1837 and the Civil War. . . . Charles L. Mee Jr.’s latest book is The Ohio Gang: The World of Warren G. Harding (Evans, $14.95); it deals primarily with the exuberant scandals of one of our more pleasant Administrations.

Richard Levinson and William Link argue in Stay Tuned: An Inside Look at the Making of Prime Time Television (St. Martin’s, $10.95) that good network TV has attained the status of an art form. They are themselves the creators of Mannix, McCloud, Columbo, and other such media artworks.

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Chilton Williamson Jr.

More July Titles: With the publication of The Sage of Monticello (Little, Brown, $19.95), Dumas Malone concludes his six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson. This final one covers Jefferson’s last 17 years, from his retirement as President in 1809 to his death in 1826. . . . T. Harry Williams’s The History of American Wars: From Colonial Times to World War I (Knopf, $20) is being published posthumously.. Williams died before he could bring his account through the Vietnam conflict. . . . Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Cultural Independence in America (Viking, $20), by Larzer Ziff, is a study of the emergence of a distinctive American literature between the Panic of 1837 and the Civil War. . . . Charles L. Mee Jr.’s latest book is The Ohio Gang: The World of Warren G. Harding (Evans, $14.95); it deals primarily with the exuberant scandals of one of our more pleasant Administrations.

Richard Levinson and William Link argue in Stay Tuned: An Inside Look at the Making of Prime Time Television (St. Martin’s, $10.95) that good network TV has attained the status of an art form. They are themselves the creators of Mannix, McCloud, Columbo, and other such media artworks.