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More July Titles: Our candidate for the R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. Award for the swellest political reportage by a journalist over the age of 35: Mencken’s Last Campaign: H. L. Mencken on the 1948 Election (New Republic Books, $8.95), edited and with an introduction by Joseph C. Goulden…. Although the main thesis of Peter Gay’s new book-that an artist’s life is the product of many “causes”-is less than startling, Art and Act: On Causes in History-Manet, Gropius, Mondrian (Harper, $15) is, like all of this intellectual historian’s work, worth dipping into…. The idea behind David Sanford’s Ralph & Me: Is Nader Unsafe for America? (New Republic Books, $7.95) appears to be that Nader is unsafe at any speed…. Harry Stein has written Tiny Tim (Playboy Press, $8.95), about a man who likes tulips, ukuleles, makeup, and five showers a day-and is alive and well someplace…. Albert Lee, a Detroit landlord who tried to rent the poor decent places to lay their heads and at the same time to turn himself a profit, describes his experiences in Slumlord! (Arlington House, $7.95). His tenants were uncooperative.

There’s no mind like an empty mind, says J. Krishnamurti in Krishnamurti’s Notebook (Harper, $10). Parents should help their young to “experience sex as a joyous part of life,” in the opinion of the generous Hal M. Wells, PhD, in Your Child’s Right to Sex (Stein & Day, $7.95). Sex play between kids of the opposite sex, same sex, between siblings-swell!… Read all about the Ordeal of Fatty Arbuckle in David Yallup’s The Day the Laughter Stopped (St. Martin’s, $10.95). In The New Charismatics: The Origins, Development, and Significance of Neo-Pentecostalism (Doubleday, $7.95), Richard Quebedeaux Writes: “Charismatic Renewal is a celebration in our generation that God has not forgotten His promises, that He is, in fact and deed, a living God, totally committed to work in evidential ways through the lives of those committed to Him.” Smooth as Georgia’s finest peanut butter, isn’t it?… Lester G. Cappon served as editor-in-chief of the Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era 1760-1790 (Princeton University Press, $100; $125 after Dec. 31). It’s been in the making since about 1760…. Mirra Komarovsky, in. Dilemmas of Masculinity: A Study of College Youth-(Norton, $9.95), talks ominously of role strain in the liberated era, but at least half the population will be gratified to learn that most young men do not doubt that women should bear the brunt of child-bearing-sorry, child-rearing.

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More July Titles: Our candidate for the R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. Award for the swellest political reportage by a journalist over the age of 35: Mencken’s Last Campaign: H. L. Mencken on the 1948 Election (New Republic Books, $8.95), edited and with an introduction by Joseph C. Goulden…. Although the main thesis of Peter Gay’s new book-that an artist’s life is the product of many “causes”-is less than startling, Art and Act: On Causes in History-Manet, Gropius, Mondrian (Harper, $15) is, like all of this intellectual historian’s work, worth dipping into…. The idea behind David Sanford’s Ralph & Me: Is Nader Unsafe for America? (New Republic Books, $7.95) appears to be that Nader is unsafe at any speed…. Harry Stein has written Tiny Tim (Playboy Press, $8.95), about a man who likes tulips, ukuleles, makeup, and five showers a day-and is alive and well someplace…. Albert Lee, a Detroit landlord who tried to rent the poor decent places to lay their heads and at the same time to turn himself a profit, describes his experiences in Slumlord! (Arlington House, $7.95). His tenants were uncooperative.

There’s no mind like an empty mind, says J. Krishnamurti in Krishnamurti’s Notebook (Harper, $10). Parents should help their young to “experience sex as a joyous part of life,” in the opinion of the generous Hal M. Wells, PhD, in Your Child’s Right to Sex (Stein & Day, $7.95). Sex play between kids of the opposite sex, same sex, between siblings-swell!… Read all about the Ordeal of Fatty Arbuckle in David Yallup’s The Day the Laughter Stopped (St. Martin’s, $10.95). In The New Charismatics: The Origins, Development, and Significance of Neo-Pentecostalism (Doubleday, $7.95), Richard Quebedeaux Writes: “Charismatic Renewal is a celebration in our generation that God has not forgotten His promises, that He is, in fact and deed, a living God, totally committed to work in evidential ways through the lives of those committed to Him.” Smooth as Georgia’s finest peanut butter, isn’t it?… Lester G. Cappon served as editor-in-chief of the Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era 1760-1790 (Princeton University Press, $100; $125 after Dec. 31). It’s been in the making since about 1760…. Mirra Komarovsky, in. Dilemmas of Masculinity: A Study of College Youth-(Norton, $9.95), talks ominously of role strain in the liberated era, but at least half the population will be gratified to learn that most young men do not doubt that women should bear the brunt of child-bearing-sorry, child-rearing.