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More March Titles: Louis Auchin-closs’ new novel is a 300-year family saga done in the historical-fiction, fictional history vein called The Winthrop Covenant (Houghton Mifflin, $8.95)…. Cass Canfield, whose ancestors were all mixed up in the history of colonial times, has written Samuel Adams’ Revolution: With the Assistance of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, George III, and the People of Boston, and with a little help by way of an introduction by Richard B. Morris (Harper, $7.95)…. John Herbers says, Yes, Virginia, politicians do tell lies to the press, in No Thank You, Mr. President (Norton, $7.95)…. Charles W. Colson, who not only told but made lies, makes good after all in Born Again (Chosen Books, $8.95).

John Brooks tells you all about AT&T and All That in Telephone: The First Hundred Years (Harper, $12.50)…. Wernher von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III question, among other things, the discovery of the rocket by the ancient Chinese in The Rockets’ Red Glare (Doubleday, $9.95)…. A teenaged couple with underprivileged case-histories run amok in William Allen’s Starkweather: A Chronicle of Mass Murder in the Fifties (Houghton Mifflin, $7.95).. Having recently described what nearly everybody at the time except Harry Truman took to be the Death of the United States, Jim Bishop now weighs in with The Birth of the United States (Morrow, $6.95).

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More March Titles: Louis Auchin-closs’ new novel is a 300-year family saga done in the historical-fiction, fictional history vein called The Winthrop Covenant (Houghton Mifflin, $8.95)…. Cass Canfield, whose ancestors were all mixed up in the history of colonial times, has written Samuel Adams’ Revolution: With the Assistance of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, George III, and the People of Boston, and with a little help by way of an introduction by Richard B. Morris (Harper, $7.95)…. John Herbers says, Yes, Virginia, politicians do tell lies to the press, in No Thank You, Mr. President (Norton, $7.95)…. Charles W. Colson, who not only told but made lies, makes good after all in Born Again (Chosen Books, $8.95).

John Brooks tells you all about AT&T and All That in Telephone: The First Hundred Years (Harper, $12.50)…. Wernher von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III question, among other things, the discovery of the rocket by the ancient Chinese in The Rockets’ Red Glare (Doubleday, $9.95)…. A teenaged couple with underprivileged case-histories run amok in William Allen’s Starkweather: A Chronicle of Mass Murder in the Fifties (Houghton Mifflin, $7.95).. Having recently described what nearly everybody at the time except Harry Truman took to be the Death of the United States, Jim Bishop now weighs in with The Birth of the United States (Morrow, $6.95).