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More November Books: In The First Amendment and the Future of American Democracy (Basic Books, $12.50), Walter Berns takes another look at the First Amendment. “Morality,” he says, “cannot be legislated… but the law can lend support to the moral disposition of a people.”… Gabriel García Márquez’ The Autumn of the Patriarch (Harper & Row, $8.95) is a novel about the declining years of a Latin American dictator whose wife, a former nun, is devoured by dogs…. Joseph Frank’s Dostoyevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 (Princeton, $16.50) is the first volume of what looks to be the definitive biography of the Russian novelist…. Georgia O’Keeffe (Viking Studio, $60 till Christmas; $75 thereafter) is essentially a coffee-table book of Miss O’Keeffe’s familiar poster-art, but it carries an autobiographical text by the painter…. Philippe Jullian and John Phillips’ The Other Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis (Houghton Mifflin, $10) is a biography of the lover of Victoria Sackville-West, the poet and wife of Sir Harold Nicolson. Publisher and authors presume that you have not forgot the eloquent Portrait of a Marriage…. Speaking of which: Nigel Nicolson and Joan Trautman have completed the second of a planned six volumes of The Letters of Virginia Woolf (Harcourt, $14.95). The new volume covers the years 1912-1922…. Meta Carpenter Wilde and Orin Borsten discuss an affair of thirty years in A Loving Gentleman: The Love Story of William Faulkner and Meta Carpenter (Simon & Schuster, $8.95)…. Leni Riefenstahl’s newest book is called The People of Kau (Harper, $25). It is graced with more than a hundred color photographs of the daily activities of a Nuban village in the Sudan, and is positively lovely…. The law of historical justice would seem to be—to paraphrase Mark Twain on New England weather—”If you don’t like the verdict, wait a bit.” Now Anthony Scaduto argues, in Scapegoat: The Lonesome Death of Bruno Richard Hauptmann (Putnam, $12.50), that the kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby was framed…. J. Bowyer Bell’s Terror Out of Zion (St. Martin’s, $12.95) is a study of the Israeli terrorist organization, Irgun. Bell was formerly a history teacher at an exclusive private school in New York, but terrorists have a high personal regard for him, despite his past effeteness, and so they confide everything to him. His credentials as a reporter are hence impeccable.

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More November Books: In The First Amendment and the Future of American Democracy (Basic Books, $12.50), Walter Berns takes another look at the First Amendment. “Morality,” he says, “cannot be legislated… but the law can lend support to the moral disposition of a people.”… Gabriel García Márquez’ The Autumn of the Patriarch (Harper & Row, $8.95) is a novel about the declining years of a Latin American dictator whose wife, a former nun, is devoured by dogs…. Joseph Frank’s Dostoyevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 (Princeton, $16.50) is the first volume of what looks to be the definitive biography of the Russian novelist…. Georgia O’Keeffe (Viking Studio, $60 till Christmas; $75 thereafter) is essentially a coffee-table book of Miss O’Keeffe’s familiar poster-art, but it carries an autobiographical text by the painter…. Philippe Jullian and John Phillips’ The Other Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis (Houghton Mifflin, $10) is a biography of the lover of Victoria Sackville-West, the poet and wife of Sir Harold Nicolson. Publisher and authors presume that you have not forgot the eloquent Portrait of a Marriage…. Speaking of which: Nigel Nicolson and Joan Trautman have completed the second of a planned six volumes of The Letters of Virginia Woolf (Harcourt, $14.95). The new volume covers the years 1912-1922…. Meta Carpenter Wilde and Orin Borsten discuss an affair of thirty years in A Loving Gentleman: The Love Story of William Faulkner and Meta Carpenter (Simon & Schuster, $8.95)…. Leni Riefenstahl’s newest book is called The People of Kau (Harper, $25). It is graced with more than a hundred color photographs of the daily activities of a Nuban village in the Sudan, and is positively lovely…. The law of historical justice would seem to be—to paraphrase Mark Twain on New England weather—”If you don’t like the verdict, wait a bit.” Now Anthony Scaduto argues, in Scapegoat: The Lonesome Death of Bruno Richard Hauptmann (Putnam, $12.50), that the kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby was framed…. J. Bowyer Bell’s Terror Out of Zion (St. Martin’s, $12.95) is a study of the Israeli terrorist organization, Irgun. Bell was formerly a history teacher at an exclusive private school in New York, but terrorists have a high personal regard for him, despite his past effeteness, and so they confide everything to him. His credentials as a reporter are hence impeccable.

GLITTERING DAYS