Books of Interest

The Making of the President 1960, by Theodore H. White (Atheneum, $6.95). The campaign made into an exhaustive narrative that fascinates in precisely the way that those books about the Titanic or the 24 hours preceding Pearl Harbor do.

Lizzie Borden, by Edward D. Radin (Simon & Schuster, $4.50). A detective-biographer at work on that most famous matricide, that most infamous parricide—or was it one?