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July Titles: Donald Lambro has written a book called The Conscience of a Young Conservative (Arlington House, $6.95). The title comes from Goldwater; the politics, one hopes, from Reagan…. In Creativity: The Magic Synthesis (Basic Books, $15.95), Silvano Arietti graduates the creative process from the ranks of neuroses…. The American Library Association and other bookworms come in for a little seltzer-bottle funning in The Happy Booker (McGraw-Hill, $6.95) by Richard Armour…. Patrick McCarthy has written a good book about a great novelist with naughty political ideas: Céline (Viking, $10)…. Louis Kronen-berger’s Oscar Wilde (Little, Brown, $8.95) is a good, brief critical biography in the Library of World Biography series…. Another volume in the series is Richard W. Davis’ Disraeli (Little, Brown, $8.95), about the man who got there before Pat Moynihan…. David E. Lilienthal is no Harold Nicolson when it comes to keeping a diary, but The Journals, Vol. VI: Creativity and Conflict 1964-1967 (Harper, $20) is worth dipping into…. Concord, Mass., like Camelot, D.C., had its darker side, as revealed in Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers (Morrow, $8.95) by Louisa May Alcott…. Something good out of Chile for Chile-haters: Pablo Neruda’s Memoirs (Farrar, $10) translated by Hardie St. Martin…. Gwen Robyns tells the story of Grace Kelly from the ankles up in Princess Grace (McKay, $8.95)…. Ada Louise Huxtable republishes five years of architectural criticism in her book Kicked a Building Lately? (Quadrangle, $10).

Listing Slightly to Port: William Worthy is handsomely propped up fore and aft by Kenneth B. Clarke (Foreword) and Nat Hentoff (Afterword) for his discussion, in The Rape of Our Neighborhoods (Morrow, $8.95), of a classic liberal confrontation: an expanding hospital wants to level a tenement…. Susan Sheehan, abetted by Michael Harrington, who wrote her an introduction, offers you A Welfare Mother (Houghton, $6.95), “Mrs. Santana,” who lies, cheats, has nine children and several lovers. “Poverty is winning the social war,” opines Mr. Harrington…. The Deadly Innocents: Portraits of Children Who Kill (Basic Books, $8.95) is by Muriel Gardiner, MD. Publisher’s Weekly says: “Most of the young murderers she describes have suffered so horribly at adult hands that their retaliatory crimes seem almost justifiable homicides.”… John Zachary DeLorean, once a $650,000-a-year executive, has written On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors (Playboy Press, $10), a “confessions-of-a-capitalist” book. Remember! The People’s Bicentennial Commission offers $25,000 for info leading to the conviction of a corporate exec who pollutes.

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July Titles: Donald Lambro has written a book called The Conscience of a Young Conservative (Arlington House, $6.95). The title comes from Goldwater; the politics, one hopes, from Reagan…. In Creativity: The Magic Synthesis (Basic Books, $15.95), Silvano Arietti graduates the creative process from the ranks of neuroses…. The American Library Association and other bookworms come in for a little seltzer-bottle funning in The Happy Booker (McGraw-Hill, $6.95) by Richard Armour…. Patrick McCarthy has written a good book about a great novelist with naughty political ideas: Céline (Viking, $10)…. Louis Kronen-berger’s Oscar Wilde (Little, Brown, $8.95) is a good, brief critical biography in the Library of World Biography series…. Another volume in the series is Richard W. Davis’ Disraeli (Little, Brown, $8.95), about the man who got there before Pat Moynihan…. David E. Lilienthal is no Harold Nicolson when it comes to keeping a diary, but The Journals, Vol. VI: Creativity and Conflict 1964-1967 (Harper, $20) is worth dipping into…. Concord, Mass., like Camelot, D.C., had its darker side, as revealed in Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers (Morrow, $8.95) by Louisa May Alcott…. Something good out of Chile for Chile-haters: Pablo Neruda’s Memoirs (Farrar, $10) translated by Hardie St. Martin…. Gwen Robyns tells the story of Grace Kelly from the ankles up in Princess Grace (McKay, $8.95)…. Ada Louise Huxtable republishes five years of architectural criticism in her book Kicked a Building Lately? (Quadrangle, $10).

Listing Slightly to Port: William Worthy is handsomely propped up fore and aft by Kenneth B. Clarke (Foreword) and Nat Hentoff (Afterword) for his discussion, in The Rape of Our Neighborhoods (Morrow, $8.95), of a classic liberal confrontation: an expanding hospital wants to level a tenement…. Susan Sheehan, abetted by Michael Harrington, who wrote her an introduction, offers you A Welfare Mother (Houghton, $6.95), “Mrs. Santana,” who lies, cheats, has nine children and several lovers. “Poverty is winning the social war,” opines Mr. Harrington…. The Deadly Innocents: Portraits of Children Who Kill (Basic Books, $8.95) is by Muriel Gardiner, MD. Publisher’s Weekly says: “Most of the young murderers she describes have suffered so horribly at adult hands that their retaliatory crimes seem almost justifiable homicides.”… John Zachary DeLorean, once a $650,000-a-year executive, has written On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors (Playboy Press, $10), a “confessions-of-a-capitalist” book. Remember! The People’s Bicentennial Commission offers $25,000 for info leading to the conviction of a corporate exec who pollutes.