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Left Over from September: Fritz Machlup has edited, and Milton Friedman written a foreword to, Essays on Hayek (New York University Press, $10). The contributors are William F. Buckley Jr., Gottfried Dietze, Ronald Max Hartwell, Shirley Robin Letwin, Fritz Machlup, George C. Roche, and Arthur Shenfield. . . . With The Yankee and Cowboy War: Conspiracies from Dallas to Watergate (Sheed Andrews and McNeel, $12; paper, $4.95), Carl Oglesby, the former thinktank goldfish for Students for a Democratic Society, follows in the wake of another goldfish—Kirkpatrick Sale—and wonders whether James McCord was a CIA double-agent who set Nixon up for the Watergate scandal. . . . Historian Herbert G. Gutman, in The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925 (Pantheon, $15.95), takes on Daniel Patrick Moynihan to argue that the black family in America has behind it a history of stability.

October Titles: Five speeches by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn have been gathered together for publication under the title Warning to the West (Farrar, $1.95). In this book Solzhenitsyn reminds us that none of his predictions should be startling to Americans: that immigrants to this country have been telling us the same things for sixty years. . . . Eugen Loebl is a Czechoslovak economist and former deputy minister for trade who was forced to confess to “traitorous” behavior; a stint of teaching in the U.S. has weaned him away from “Marxist” economics to “Humanomics.” See for yourself whether that is an improvement: His book is My Mind on Trial (Harcourt, $8.95). . . . . Joseph P. Lash’s new book is Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939-1941: The Partnership That Saved the West (Norton, $12.95). The previous researches of Mr. William Stevenson suggest that many of that partnership’s world-saving activities were—and would today be condemned as—illegal. . . . Thomas Gambino’s NYET: An American Rock Musician Encounters the Soviet Union (Prentice-Hall, $6.95) details the sad story of a rock band that accompanied the Joffrey Ballet to Russia, where it found no traveling comforts comparable to those afforded by a Holiday Inn and whose native audience was brutalized by the local cops. . . . The Man Who Lost Jack Ruby gives you his autobiography, written with the aid of one Robert Blair Kaiser: Melvin Belli: My Life on Trial (Morrow, $9.95).

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Left Over from September: Fritz Machlup has edited, and Milton Friedman written a foreword to, Essays on Hayek (New York University Press, $10). The contributors are William F. Buckley Jr., Gottfried Dietze, Ronald Max Hartwell, Shirley Robin Letwin, Fritz Machlup, George C. Roche, and Arthur Shenfield. . . . With The Yankee and Cowboy War: Conspiracies from Dallas to Watergate (Sheed Andrews and McNeel, $12; paper, $4.95), Carl Oglesby, the former thinktank goldfish for Students for a Democratic Society, follows in the wake of another goldfish—Kirkpatrick Sale—and wonders whether James McCord was a CIA double-agent who set Nixon up for the Watergate scandal. . . . Historian Herbert G. Gutman, in The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925 (Pantheon, $15.95), takes on Daniel Patrick Moynihan to argue that the black family in America has behind it a history of stability.

October Titles: Five speeches by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn have been gathered together for publication under the title Warning to the West (Farrar, $1.95). In this book Solzhenitsyn reminds us that none of his predictions should be startling to Americans: that immigrants to this country have been telling us the same things for sixty years. . . . Eugen Loebl is a Czechoslovak economist and former deputy minister for trade who was forced to confess to “traitorous” behavior; a stint of teaching in the U.S. has weaned him away from “Marxist” economics to “Humanomics.” See for yourself whether that is an improvement: His book is My Mind on Trial (Harcourt, $8.95). . . . . Joseph P. Lash’s new book is Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939-1941: The Partnership That Saved the West (Norton, $12.95). The previous researches of Mr. William Stevenson suggest that many of that partnership’s world-saving activities were—and would today be condemned as—illegal. . . . Thomas Gambino’s NYET: An American Rock Musician Encounters the Soviet Union (Prentice-Hall, $6.95) details the sad story of a rock band that accompanied the Joffrey Ballet to Russia, where it found no traveling comforts comparable to those afforded by a Holiday Inn and whose native audience was brutalized by the local cops. . . . The Man Who Lost Jack Ruby gives you his autobiography, written with the aid of one Robert Blair Kaiser: Melvin Belli: My Life on Trial (Morrow, $9.95).