Random Notes

Just Out: The staff of Reader’s Digest bows into the Bicentennial sweepstakes with The Story of America (Norton, $15.95). For the same house, a revisionist chapter of that same history: Bernard Bellusk’s The Failure of the NRA ($8.95). . . . Never before published: Disraeli’s Notes for an Autobiography (Stein & Day, $10). . . . Puritan’s Progress is a life of John Bunyan by Monica Furlong (Coward, $8.95). . . . Janet Hobhouse portrays Gertrude Stein in Everybody Who Was Anybody. It’s illustrated (Putnam, $17.50). . . . Burke Davis’ George Washington and the American Revolution is mildly iconoclastic (Random, $15). . . . William Carter’s Middle West Country has over 200 photos (Houghton; $20 to Jan. 1, then $25). . . . Robert S. Gilmour and Robert B. Lamb talked to plain citizens, report their grim findings in Political Alienation in Contemporary America (St. Martin’s, $6.95).

Paperbacks: Ever wonder why unreadable books with dubious sales prospects, like Angela Davis’ Autobiography, invariably get picked up by major houses like Bantam? So do we. . . . The Autobiography of American Business is a collection of interviews by John Brooks with people like Helena Rubenstein and Henry Ford (Anchor, $3.95). . . . Dr. Alexander Lowen risks having his office picketed by screaming, er, “gays.” In Love and Orgasm (Collier, $1.95), he writes: “Homosexuality can be viewed as a hybrid combining the self-love of infancy and the attempt at the adult love of heterosexuality. Similar relationships, some involving sexual contact, can be found frequently among pre-adolescent or young adolescent boys. Homosexuality may be regarded as development arrested at this stage.” . . . Bantam has Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess ($1.95).

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Just Out: The staff of Reader’s Digest bows into the Bicentennial sweepstakes with The Story of America (Norton, $15.95). For the same house, a revisionist chapter of that same history: Bernard Bellusk’s The Failure of the NRA ($8.95). . . . Never before published: Disraeli’s Notes for an Autobiography (Stein & Day, $10). . . . Puritan’s Progress is a life of John Bunyan by Monica Furlong (Coward, $8.95). . . . Janet Hobhouse portrays Gertrude Stein in Everybody Who Was Anybody. It’s illustrated (Putnam, $17.50). . . . Burke Davis’ George Washington and the American Revolution is mildly iconoclastic (Random, $15). . . . William Carter’s Middle West Country has over 200 photos (Houghton; $20 to Jan. 1, then $25). . . . Robert S. Gilmour and Robert B. Lamb talked to plain citizens, report their grim findings in Political Alienation in Contemporary America (St. Martin’s, $6.95).

Paperbacks: Ever wonder why unreadable books with dubious sales prospects, like Angela Davis’ Autobiography, invariably get picked up by major houses like Bantam? So do we. . . . The Autobiography of American Business is a collection of interviews by John Brooks with people like Helena Rubenstein and Henry Ford (Anchor, $3.95). . . . Dr. Alexander Lowen risks having his office picketed by screaming, er, “gays.” In Love and Orgasm (Collier, $1.95), he writes: “Homosexuality can be viewed as a hybrid combining the self-love of infancy and the attempt at the adult love of heterosexuality. Similar relationships, some involving sexual contact, can be found frequently among pre-adolescent or young adolescent boys. Homosexuality may be regarded as development arrested at this stage.” . . . Bantam has Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess ($1.95).