April Titles: Michael Novak! All you New Populists! Listen sharp to Richard Krickus, whose Pursuing the American Dream: White Ethnics and the New Populism is being published in paper (Anchor, $3.95) and cloth (Indiana, $12.50)….Campaign ’76 has it all wrong;-the social programs of the Sixties didn’t fall on their faces, argue Sar Levitan and Robert Taggart in The Promise of Greatness (Harvard, $15)….That the Iron Curtain is really gold and flutters softly as a butterfly seems to be the assumption of Tiziano Terzani in Giai Phong! The Fall and Liberation of Saigon (St. Martin’s, $10) Mr. Terzani would do well to read Nguyen Cao Ky’s description of how we lost South Vietnam in Twenty Years and Twenty Days (Stein & Day, $8.95) The fella that’s supposed to be so illiterate, he’s done written a book called The Autobiography of George Wallace (Doubleday, $8.95)….“He has the spark of greatness,” said Eleanor Roosevelt of the author of The Memoirs of Hubert Humphrey (Doubleday, $12.50) J. Bowyer (“Some-of-my-best-friends-are-terrorists”) Bell has finished Strategies of National Liberation (Harvard, $15).
Give a Protestant an inch and he’ll reform it, seems to be the burden of William R. Hutchinson’s The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism (Harvard, $15) If you didn’t like what TV did to them, try Francis Russell’s Adams: An American Dynasty (McGraw-Hill, $15) David Howarth reminds us that Lenin did not invent national liberation, in The Greek Adventure: Byron and Other Extraordinary Characters of the Greek War of Independence (Atheneum, $12.50) You’d never believe B. F. Skinner came from a sensible town like Susquehanna, Pa., unless you read Particulars of My Life (Knopf, $10) Back to Bach! with Peter Schickele’s The Definitive Biography of P. D. Q. Bach (Random House, $8.95) Richard Llewellyn offers a novel about India: At Sunrise the Rough Music (Doubleday, $6.95).




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