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More November Titles: Robert A. Caro’s The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (Knopf, $19.95), excerpted in The Atlantic, is forthcoming.

Confiscated Power: How Soviet Russia Really Works (Harper & Row, $19.95), by Hélène Carrère d’Encausse and translated by George Holoch, argues that the ousting of Khrushchev in 1964 marked the transition from personal dictatorship to rule by a managerial elite that the author describes as “petrified power,” and which she sees as wholly inflexible and unable to cope with changing social conditions in the USSR. In France the book has been a best-seller. . . . Robert Scheer’s With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush, and Nuclear War (Random House, $14.95) accuses the Administration of believing nuclear war is winnable (which it probably is) and nuclear planners of being obsessed by an insubstantiality called the Red Menace (which they’d damn well better be).

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More November Titles: Robert A. Caro’s The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (Knopf, $19.95), excerpted in The Atlantic, is forthcoming.

Confiscated Power: How Soviet Russia Really Works (Harper & Row, $19.95), by Hélène Carrère d’Encausse and translated by George Holoch, argues that the ousting of Khrushchev in 1964 marked the transition from personal dictatorship to rule by a managerial elite that the author describes as “petrified power,” and which she sees as wholly inflexible and unable to cope with changing social conditions in the USSR. In France the book has been a best-seller. . . . Robert Scheer’s With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush, and Nuclear War (Random House, $14.95) accuses the Administration of believing nuclear war is winnable (which it probably is) and nuclear planners of being obsessed by an insubstantiality called the Red Menace (which they’d damn well better be).