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Just Out: Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? is a slam at the debasement of language from an unexpected source: Edwin Newman of the Today Show (Bobbs-Merrill, $7.95).Martin Blumenson out with Volume II of The Patton Papers 1940-1945 (Houghton; $17.50 to Jan. 1, then $20).Two from Chicago: Center and Periphery: Essays in Macrosociology by Edward Shils ($19.50) and Clio and the Doctors: Psycho-History, Quanto-History, and History by Jacques Barzun ($7.95).Margaret Mead portrays Ruth Benedict for Columbia ($8.95).Jerry terHorst beats everyone out with Gerald Ford and the Future of the Presidency (Third Press, $10 I Am a Memory Come Alive is a collection of Kafka’s autobiographical writings (Schocken, $10). For the same house, Kafka’s Other Trial collects his letters to Felice ($6.50).

Writing about Billy James Hargis, Carl McIntire, Edgar Bundy, and such in Thunder on the Right: The Protestant Fundamentalists, Gary K. Clabaugh calls them— would you believe subversive? (Nelson-Hall, $8.95).My Life with Brendan is by Beatrice Behan (Nash, $8.95).Nabokov’s new novel is Look at the Harlequins (McGraw-Hill, $7.95). Cass Canfield’s The Incredible Pierpont Morgan illustrates his art collection (Harper, $17.50).New Eric Ambler thriller: Doctor Frigo (Atheneum, $8.95).

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Just Out: Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? is a slam at the debasement of language from an unexpected source: Edwin Newman of the Today Show (Bobbs-Merrill, $7.95).Martin Blumenson out with Volume II of The Patton Papers 1940-1945 (Houghton; $17.50 to Jan. 1, then $20).Two from Chicago: Center and Periphery: Essays in Macrosociology by Edward Shils ($19.50) and Clio and the Doctors: Psycho-History, Quanto-History, and History by Jacques Barzun ($7.95).Margaret Mead portrays Ruth Benedict for Columbia ($8.95).Jerry terHorst beats everyone out with Gerald Ford and the Future of the Presidency (Third Press, $10 I Am a Memory Come Alive is a collection of Kafka’s autobiographical writings (Schocken, $10). For the same house, Kafka’s Other Trial collects his letters to Felice ($6.50).

Writing about Billy James Hargis, Carl McIntire, Edgar Bundy, and such in Thunder on the Right: The Protestant Fundamentalists, Gary K. Clabaugh calls them— would you believe subversive? (Nelson-Hall, $8.95).My Life with Brendan is by Beatrice Behan (Nash, $8.95).Nabokov’s new novel is Look at the Harlequins (McGraw-Hill, $7.95). Cass Canfield’s The Incredible Pierpont Morgan illustrates his art collection (Harper, $17.50).New Eric Ambler thriller: Doctor Frigo (Atheneum, $8.95).