More March Titles: François Kersaudy’s Churchill and De Gaulle (Atheneum, $19.95) is a fascinating study of the relationship between “le Monstre de Downing Street” and “l’Homme de la France” during the Second World War. . . . The thesis of James Oliver Goldsborough’s Rebel Europe: How America Can Live with a Changing Continent (Macmillan, $12.95) is interesting in its inscrutability: it holds in brief that the nations of Western Europe are more prosperous and comfortable and confident than the U.S., and that they have learned to be impatient with our outworn notions acquired by looking at the world through “military and superpower prisms.” . . . Nayantara Sahgal, author of Indira Gandhi: Her Road to Power (Frederick Ungar, $15.95), is also a first cousin of the Indian Prime Minister. She describes Mrs. Gandhi as a woman congenitally opposed to democratic institutions and, since the death of her son Sanjay, greatly dependent upon astrology.
Empires in the Sun: The Rise of the New American West (Putnam, $14.95), by Peter Wiley and Robert Gottlieb, is an informative study of the growth of the economic, and therefore the political, power of the Western states over the past forty years.
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