■ Some March Titles: In The American Catholic: A Social Portrait (Basic Books, $15), Andrew M. Greeley argues that the real American Catholic is more likely to resemble Carter Burden than Archie Bunker. . . . The Distant Drum: Reflections on the Spanish Civil War (McKay, $9.95) is a collection of reconsiderations and reminiscences of the Spanish Civil War by such people as Hugh Thomas, Brian Crozier, and Dennis Ferguson. It is edited by Philip Toynbee, who contributes an essay, “Journal of a Naive Revolutionary.” . . . Walker Percy is publishing a new novel, Lancelot (Farrar, $8.95). . . . Nixon vs. Nixon: An Emotional Tragedy (Farrar, $10.95) by David Abrahamsen, MD., analyzes the mind of the Antichrist. . . . Roxane Witke was the college professor who traveled to China to meet the hapless Madame Chiang Ch’ing, leader of the Gang of Four whose bones are now presumably flavoring somebody’s bowl of hot-sour soup. Miss Witke’s book, based upon sixty hours of interviews, is entitled Comrade Chiang Ch’ing (Little, Brown, $15). It purports to be the Duchess’ life story. . . . The author of Convention (Harcourt, $10) is not Arthur Hailey but Richard Reeves, the political journalist who was present at and about Madison Square Garden when Governor Jimmy Carter went over the top. . . . Ralph de Toledano has written a new Preface to the Second Edition of The Greatest Plot in History (Arlington, $8.95), the story of the Soviet conspiracy to steal the secret of the A-bomb.
■ Of Note to those of our readers who have recently been introduced to the pleasures of sailing: Yachtman’s Choice: The Best of Rudder (McKay, $9.95), selected by the editors.
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