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Just Out. James McGovern makes MacArthur the goat in To the Yalu (Morrow, $6.95) . . . . Mark R. Levy and Michael S. Kramer scrutinize The Ethnic Factor: How America’s Minorities Decide Elections, aver the GOP could clinch 1972 with a Negro on the ticket. (Simon & Schuster, $7.95) . . . . Historians at Work, Vols. I & II, offers selections from Herodotus to Enlightenment writers (Harper, $15 each) . . . . Mme. Simone de Beauvoir, 63, writes about aging in The Coming of Age (Putnam, $10). From the same house, White Robe, Black Robe by Charles L. Mee Jr. deals with the fateful clash between Pope Leo X and Luther ($7.95) . . . . British MP Maurice Edelman researched a famous prime minister’s love life, found him a swinger, depicts it in a novel, Disraeli in Love (Stein & Day, $7.95).

Xenophon’s Socrates is a new study by Leo Strauss (Cornell, $8.50) . . . . Edmund Wilson peers through A Window on Russia (Farrar, $7.95) . . . . Irving Kristol ruminates On the Democratic Idea in America (Harper, $5) . . . . The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson: Beginnings of Education, 1900-1941 just goes to prove the blessings of a leisurely childhood (Little, Brown, $12.50). From the same house, Stephen Birmingham pens a life of John P. Marquand ($7.95) . . . . Images and Memories is a pictorial biography of Yeats by S. B. Bushrui and J. M. Munro (N.Y. Graphic, $15).

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Just Out. James McGovern makes MacArthur the goat in To the Yalu (Morrow, $6.95) . . . . Mark R. Levy and Michael S. Kramer scrutinize The Ethnic Factor: How America’s Minorities Decide Elections, aver the GOP could clinch 1972 with a Negro on the ticket. (Simon & Schuster, $7.95) . . . . Historians at Work, Vols. I & II, offers selections from Herodotus to Enlightenment writers (Harper, $15 each) . . . . Mme. Simone de Beauvoir, 63, writes about aging in The Coming of Age (Putnam, $10). From the same house, White Robe, Black Robe by Charles L. Mee Jr. deals with the fateful clash between Pope Leo X and Luther ($7.95) . . . . British MP Maurice Edelman researched a famous prime minister’s love life, found him a swinger, depicts it in a novel, Disraeli in Love (Stein & Day, $7.95).

Xenophon’s Socrates is a new study by Leo Strauss (Cornell, $8.50) . . . . Edmund Wilson peers through A Window on Russia (Farrar, $7.95) . . . . Irving Kristol ruminates On the Democratic Idea in America (Harper, $5) . . . . The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson: Beginnings of Education, 1900-1941 just goes to prove the blessings of a leisurely childhood (Little, Brown, $12.50). From the same house, Stephen Birmingham pens a life of John P. Marquand ($7.95) . . . . Images and Memories is a pictorial biography of Yeats by S. B. Bushrui and J. M. Munro (N.Y. Graphic, $15).