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Just Out. Harry McPherson became an adviser to Lyndon and got A Political Education (Little, Brown, $10.95). . . . Carl Linfert’s Bosch offers the major paintings in color (Abrams, $17.50). . . . O Congress, laments liberal GOP Representative Don Riegle, naming the colleagues he respects and those he contemns (Doubleday, $7.95). . . . Charles Norman worked from the subject’s own files for his bio of E. E. Cummings (Bobbs-Merrill, $10). . . . Harlem Renaissance Remembered is a collection of Arna Bontemps’ writings on Negro authors of the Twenties and Thirties (Dodd, Mead, $6.95). . . . Marion Davies is a life of Hearst’s mistress by Fred Lawrence Guiles (McGraw-Hill, $8.95). . . . Not Exactly a Crime is a collection of quick profiles of all our Veeps by Richard Curtis and Maggie Wells (Dial, $4.95). . . . James David Barber analyzes The Presidential Character according to four personality types, and the Democrats, surprise, come out the good guys (Prentice-Hall, $10).

The Worlds of Jazz is a new book by André Hodeir, one of the authentic experts (Grove, $8.95; paper, $2.95). . . . If the birth rate zooms over the next few years, the explanation might reside with Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder and Astrological Birth Control (Prentice-Hall, $6.95). . . . The Priest of the Little Flower is a life of Father Coughlin by Sheldon Marcus (Little, Brown, $8.95). From the same house, Samuel Eliot Morison inks a portrait of Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France ($10).

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Just Out. Harry McPherson became an adviser to Lyndon and got A Political Education (Little, Brown, $10.95). . . . Carl Linfert’s Bosch offers the major paintings in color (Abrams, $17.50). . . . O Congress, laments liberal GOP Representative Don Riegle, naming the colleagues he respects and those he contemns (Doubleday, $7.95). . . . Charles Norman worked from the subject’s own files for his bio of E. E. Cummings (Bobbs-Merrill, $10). . . . Harlem Renaissance Remembered is a collection of Arna Bontemps’ writings on Negro authors of the Twenties and Thirties (Dodd, Mead, $6.95). . . . Marion Davies is a life of Hearst’s mistress by Fred Lawrence Guiles (McGraw-Hill, $8.95). . . . Not Exactly a Crime is a collection of quick profiles of all our Veeps by Richard Curtis and Maggie Wells (Dial, $4.95). . . . James David Barber analyzes The Presidential Character according to four personality types, and the Democrats, surprise, come out the good guys (Prentice-Hall, $10).

The Worlds of Jazz is a new book by André Hodeir, one of the authentic experts (Grove, $8.95; paper, $2.95). . . . If the birth rate zooms over the next few years, the explanation might reside with Sheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder and Astrological Birth Control (Prentice-Hall, $6.95). . . . The Priest of the Little Flower is a life of Father Coughlin by Sheldon Marcus (Little, Brown, $8.95). From the same house, Samuel Eliot Morison inks a portrait of Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France ($10).