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Books: Herman Kahn and four other Hudson Institute types have collaborated on Can We Win in Vietnam? Conclusion (not unanimous): Yes. (Praeger, $7.95). . . . Unusual contract: Robert Sherrod has signed with Macmillan to do The Conquest of the Moon. He’ll write as the story unfolds, and wrap it up as soon as we land a man. No mention of what happens if They get there first. . . . Next from Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore: War and Peace in the Global Village (Bantam/McGraw-Hill, July). . . . Debunkers: Robert Sherrill, author of the violently anti-Johnson The Accidental President, now offers Gothic Politics in the Deep South—about Bilbo, Huey Long and more, right up to and including George Wallace (Grossman, $6.95); The Experts, by Seymour Freidin and George Bailey, is one long, comforting reminder of how wrong pundits can be (Macmillan, $7.95).

Jan Myrdal is chronically angry because for years Swedish authorities have suppressed his works lest they embarrass his Very Important Father. It all boils over in Confessions of a Disloyal European (Pantheon, $5.95). . . . The real, live William J. Burns, who outdid Holmes, Poirot and all the other sleuths of fiction, is recalled in Gene Caesar’s The Incredible Detective (Prentice-Hall, $5.95).

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Books: Herman Kahn and four other Hudson Institute types have collaborated on Can We Win in Vietnam? Conclusion (not unanimous): Yes. (Praeger, $7.95). . . . Unusual contract: Robert Sherrod has signed with Macmillan to do The Conquest of the Moon. He’ll write as the story unfolds, and wrap it up as soon as we land a man. No mention of what happens if They get there first. . . . Next from Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore: War and Peace in the Global Village (Bantam/McGraw-Hill, July). . . . Debunkers: Robert Sherrill, author of the violently anti-Johnson The Accidental President, now offers Gothic Politics in the Deep South—about Bilbo, Huey Long and more, right up to and including George Wallace (Grossman, $6.95); The Experts, by Seymour Freidin and George Bailey, is one long, comforting reminder of how wrong pundits can be (Macmillan, $7.95).

Jan Myrdal is chronically angry because for years Swedish authorities have suppressed his works lest they embarrass his Very Important Father. It all boils over in Confessions of a Disloyal European (Pantheon, $5.95). . . . The real, live William J. Burns, who outdid Holmes, Poirot and all the other sleuths of fiction, is recalled in Gene Caesar’s The Incredible Detective (Prentice-Hall, $5.95).