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Books: Next on the RFK hate parade is Victor Lasky’s Bobby Kennedy: The Man and the Myth, to be published by Trident this summer. Dozens of Bobbybooks are in the works, including Jack Newfield’s for Random House, Dick Schaap’s for New American Library. … NR regulars with forthcoming books: James Burnham, who discusses The War We Are In (Arlington House, September, $6); Russell Kirk, who co-wrote The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft with James McClellan (Fleet, September, $6.95); Alec Waugh, who presents My Brother Evelyn and Other Literary Portraits (Farrar, November); Ferdinand Mount, who mocks the sins and sillinesses of the English Establishment in a novel, Very Like a Whale (Weybright & Talley, September, $5); Francis Russell, whose 350,000word The Shadow of Blooming Grove, first tell-all biography of Warren G. Harding, is moving toward publication despite a million-dollar lawsuit; William F. Rickenbacker, who ponders gold, the balance of payments and the future of the dollar in The Money Managers (Arlington House, early 1968). Barry Goldwater’s People and Places includes 45 photographs by Himself (Random House, November, $10). New novels: Peter DeVries’ The Vale of Laughter, about a suburbanite’s nervous breakdown (Little, Brown, October, $5.95); William Golding’s The Pyramid, about an Englishman (Harcourt, October); Gerald Green’s The Senator, about nasty Washington, D.C. and with, uh, background provided by Drew Pearson (Doubleday, indefinite); Norman Mailer’s Why Are We in Vietnam? about an Alaskan bear-hunt, Texans, an eighteen-year-old genius and other Mailerish things (Putnam, Fall). … Roosevelts are expected to hate Patricia Peabody R.’s I Love a Roosevelt: Elliot’s second wife is less than kind to her in-laws (Doubleday, July, $6.95) — Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery (of Alamein) is writing an immense History of Warfare; World will publish here, sometime next year… . Juvenilia Note: Coming soon is a collection of T.S. Eliot’s Poems Written in Early Youth ( Farrar, August, $3.95).

Trifles: Ralph Ginzburg (“If it’s slick, it ain’t sick”) plans a new periodical, Avant – Garde, billed as “the first McLuhanistic magazine in America.” Ho-hum. Meanwhile, this bit of McLuhanacy, courtesy of Books: “Twiggy or Bust!” … Timothy Leary will serve as consultant on things druggish to Otto Preminger for the filming of John Hersey’s Too Far to Walk. … There will not be a film version of James Jones’ Go To the Widow Maker; will be one of Arthur C. Clarke’s sf novel, The Alien, to be co-produced by Peter Sellers and Satyajit Ray.

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Books: Next on the RFK hate parade is Victor Lasky’s Bobby Kennedy: The Man and the Myth, to be published by Trident this summer. Dozens of Bobbybooks are in the works, including Jack Newfield’s for Random House, Dick Schaap’s for New American Library. … NR regulars with forthcoming books: James Burnham, who discusses The War We Are In (Arlington House, September, $6); Russell Kirk, who co-wrote The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft with James McClellan (Fleet, September, $6.95); Alec Waugh, who presents My Brother Evelyn and Other Literary Portraits (Farrar, November); Ferdinand Mount, who mocks the sins and sillinesses of the English Establishment in a novel, Very Like a Whale (Weybright & Talley, September, $5); Francis Russell, whose 350,000word The Shadow of Blooming Grove, first tell-all biography of Warren G. Harding, is moving toward publication despite a million-dollar lawsuit; William F. Rickenbacker, who ponders gold, the balance of payments and the future of the dollar in The Money Managers (Arlington House, early 1968). Barry Goldwater’s People and Places includes 45 photographs by Himself (Random House, November, $10). New novels: Peter DeVries’ The Vale of Laughter, about a suburbanite’s nervous breakdown (Little, Brown, October, $5.95); William Golding’s The Pyramid, about an Englishman (Harcourt, October); Gerald Green’s The Senator, about nasty Washington, D.C. and with, uh, background provided by Drew Pearson (Doubleday, indefinite); Norman Mailer’s Why Are We in Vietnam? about an Alaskan bear-hunt, Texans, an eighteen-year-old genius and other Mailerish things (Putnam, Fall). … Roosevelts are expected to hate Patricia Peabody R.’s I Love a Roosevelt: Elliot’s second wife is less than kind to her in-laws (Doubleday, July, $6.95) — Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery (of Alamein) is writing an immense History of Warfare; World will publish here, sometime next year… . Juvenilia Note: Coming soon is a collection of T.S. Eliot’s Poems Written in Early Youth ( Farrar, August, $3.95).

Trifles: Ralph Ginzburg (“If it’s slick, it ain’t sick”) plans a new periodical, Avant – Garde, billed as “the first McLuhanistic magazine in America.” Ho-hum. Meanwhile, this bit of McLuhanacy, courtesy of Books: “Twiggy or Bust!” … Timothy Leary will serve as consultant on things druggish to Otto Preminger for the filming of John Hersey’s Too Far to Walk. … There will not be a film version of James Jones’ Go To the Widow Maker; will be one of Arthur C. Clarke’s sf novel, The Alien, to be co-produced by Peter Sellers and Satyajit Ray.