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June Titles: Doris Kearns chats up LBJ, or vice versa, in Miss Kearns’s Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (Harper & Row, $12.50). . . . Let’s hope the Gutenbergian version will be less sloppily pontifical than the McLuhanite: John Pearson’s The Bellamy Saga (Praeger, $8.95), an historical novel about the Upstairs, Downstairs ménage. . . . Michael Kramer and Sam Roberts stole their title from their loquacious subject himself: “I Never Wanted to Be Vice President of Anything!”: An Investigative Biography of Nelson Rockefeller (Basic, $12.50). We know, fella. . . . Eric Hoffer, the waterfront curmudgeon, has mellowed somewhat, to judge from his new collection of 32 essays, In Our Time (Harper & Row, $6.95). . . . Who knows, maybe BBC listeners, to whom the material in this book was originally broadcast, were surprised to learn that America was shaped by a quest for the new: The Exploring Spirit: America and the World Then and Now (Random House, $6.95) by Daniel Boorstin.

Far out, man! The sci-fi patriarch has been written up by his grandson, Jean Jules-Verne, in Jules Verne: A Biography (Taplinger, $12.50). . . . Betty Friedan gives birth to the philosophy of the “new yes” in It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement (Random House, $10). . . . In How Socialism Came to America (Harper & Row, $7.95), Peter F. Drucker explains that through “pension fund socialism” the American worker now owns a larger part of his economy than does his brother in the socialist paradises. . . . From his vantage point as Secretary of Commerce and nay-sayer to Presidents, Elliot Richardson tells you how to cope with your intractable government in The Creative Balance: Government, Politics, and the Individual in America’s Third Century (Holt, $12.95). . . . William Appleman. Williams is again up to no good in America Confronts a Revolutionary World (Morrow, $8.95).

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June Titles: Doris Kearns chats up LBJ, or vice versa, in Miss Kearns’s Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (Harper & Row, $12.50). . . . Let’s hope the Gutenbergian version will be less sloppily pontifical than the McLuhanite: John Pearson’s The Bellamy Saga (Praeger, $8.95), an historical novel about the Upstairs, Downstairs ménage. . . . Michael Kramer and Sam Roberts stole their title from their loquacious subject himself: “I Never Wanted to Be Vice President of Anything!”: An Investigative Biography of Nelson Rockefeller (Basic, $12.50). We know, fella. . . . Eric Hoffer, the waterfront curmudgeon, has mellowed somewhat, to judge from his new collection of 32 essays, In Our Time (Harper & Row, $6.95). . . . Who knows, maybe BBC listeners, to whom the material in this book was originally broadcast, were surprised to learn that America was shaped by a quest for the new: The Exploring Spirit: America and the World Then and Now (Random House, $6.95) by Daniel Boorstin.

Far out, man! The sci-fi patriarch has been written up by his grandson, Jean Jules-Verne, in Jules Verne: A Biography (Taplinger, $12.50). . . . Betty Friedan gives birth to the philosophy of the “new yes” in It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement (Random House, $10). . . . In How Socialism Came to America (Harper & Row, $7.95), Peter F. Drucker explains that through “pension fund socialism” the American worker now owns a larger part of his economy than does his brother in the socialist paradises. . . . From his vantage point as Secretary of Commerce and nay-sayer to Presidents, Elliot Richardson tells you how to cope with your intractable government in The Creative Balance: Government, Politics, and the Individual in America’s Third Century (Holt, $12.95). . . . William Appleman. Williams is again up to no good in America Confronts a Revolutionary World (Morrow, $8.95).