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More November Titles: William F. Buckley Jr.’s Airborne: A Sentimental Journey (Macmillan, $12.95) is an account of his trans-Atlantic voyage aboard Cyrano, and a memoir of his career as a sailor. . . . David A. Jasen, P. G. Wodehouse’s bibliographer, has edited and composed an introduction to The Uncollected Wodehouse (Seabury, $8.95), a volume of newspaper and magazine pieces and of short stories. Malcolm Muggeridge provides a Foreword. . . . The Investigative Journalist: Folk Heroes of a New Era (Prentice-Hall, $8.95), although it discusses such robber barons as Woodstein, Jack Anderson, and Seymour Hersch, is largely devoted to the little people who populate the trade among the grassroots of American journalism. The author is James H. Dygert. . . . Geoffrey Hodgson, a British journalist who has been living in the U.S. for 21 years and filing his stories with the London Times and the Observer, has written America in Our Time (Doubleday, $12.95), of which Publisher’s Weekly has remarked that its author “sometimes seems too much under the spell of polemicists like Daniel Moynihan and Irving Kristol.” … Jan Peerce, the Metropolitan Opera tenor and one of the most vocally elegant singers in operatic history, was born Jacob Pincus Perel- muth and, previous to his career on Broadway and 39th Street, sang on the Borscht Belt and at Radio City Music Hall. His biography is called The Bluebird of Happiness: The Memoirs of Jan Peerce (Harper & Row, $12.50), and was written by Alan Levy. . . . Arrivals and Departures: A Journalist’s Memoirs (Macmillan, $10.95), by Richard H. Rovere, is not really a memoir but a collection of reprinted magazine articles. Thus it casts little light upon Rovere’s shrouded, prelapsarian period when he was reading Suicide of the West and flunking James Burnham’s litmus test for liberalism. . . . James Roosevelt, in My Parents: A Differing View (Playboy Press, $12.50), offers a portrait of the Hyde Park ménage and claims that his brother Elliott vastly exaggerated his father’s relationship with Missy LeHand but suggests that, when Frank wasn’t looking, Eleanor was doing more than falling down mineshafts. . . . Over a period of 65 years, Winston S. Churchill made 14 visits to America. To this desicated statistic we owe a very pleasant book: Churchill in America: An Affectionate Portrait 1895-1961 (Harcourt, $10) by Robert H. Pilpel.

Lagging behind from October: Rich- hard Ford’s first novel, A Piece of My Heart (Harper & Row, $7.95), is undoubtedly the first signal work of nativist fiction since Larry Woiwode’s Beyond The Bedroom Wall, and probably one of the finest of its genre in the last twenty years. (See Vic Gold’s review in this issue.)

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More November Titles: William F. Buckley Jr.’s Airborne: A Sentimental Journey (Macmillan, $12.95) is an account of his trans-Atlantic voyage aboard Cyrano, and a memoir of his career as a sailor. . . . David A. Jasen, P. G. Wodehouse’s bibliographer, has edited and composed an introduction to The Uncollected Wodehouse (Seabury, $8.95), a volume of newspaper and magazine pieces and of short stories. Malcolm Muggeridge provides a Foreword. . . . The Investigative Journalist: Folk Heroes of a New Era (Prentice-Hall, $8.95), although it discusses such robber barons as Woodstein, Jack Anderson, and Seymour Hersch, is largely devoted to the little people who populate the trade among the grassroots of American journalism. The author is James H. Dygert. . . . Geoffrey Hodgson, a British journalist who has been living in the U.S. for 21 years and filing his stories with the London Times and the Observer, has written America in Our Time (Doubleday, $12.95), of which Publisher’s Weekly has remarked that its author “sometimes seems too much under the spell of polemicists like Daniel Moynihan and Irving Kristol.” … Jan Peerce, the Metropolitan Opera tenor and one of the most vocally elegant singers in operatic history, was born Jacob Pincus Perel- muth and, previous to his career on Broadway and 39th Street, sang on the Borscht Belt and at Radio City Music Hall. His biography is called The Bluebird of Happiness: The Memoirs of Jan Peerce (Harper & Row, $12.50), and was written by Alan Levy. . . . Arrivals and Departures: A Journalist’s Memoirs (Macmillan, $10.95), by Richard H. Rovere, is not really a memoir but a collection of reprinted magazine articles. Thus it casts little light upon Rovere’s shrouded, prelapsarian period when he was reading Suicide of the West and flunking James Burnham’s litmus test for liberalism. . . . James Roosevelt, in My Parents: A Differing View (Playboy Press, $12.50), offers a portrait of the Hyde Park ménage and claims that his brother Elliott vastly exaggerated his father’s relationship with Missy LeHand but suggests that, when Frank wasn’t looking, Eleanor was doing more than falling down mineshafts. . . . Over a period of 65 years, Winston S. Churchill made 14 visits to America. To this desicated statistic we owe a very pleasant book: Churchill in America: An Affectionate Portrait 1895-1961 (Harcourt, $10) by Robert H. Pilpel.

Lagging behind from October: Rich- hard Ford’s first novel, A Piece of My Heart (Harper & Row, $7.95), is undoubtedly the first signal work of nativist fiction since Larry Woiwode’s Beyond The Bedroom Wall, and probably one of the finest of its genre in the last twenty years. (See Vic Gold’s review in this issue.)