Books, Arts & Manners: Random Notes

First Peek at November: New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren turns his satire on modern romance in Are You Happy? And Other Questions Lovers Ask (Pantheon, $3.95).

More from October: A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts (Putnam, $12.95) is another collection of Wm. F. Buckley Jr.’s notes, columns, and essays. . . . Reporter Steven Brill digs wide and deep for facts about The Teamsters (Simon & Schuster, $10.95). Brill theorizes, with the help of information from FBI files, about the murder and disposal of Jimmy Hoffa. . . . In The Disintegrating West (Hill and Wang, $10), Mary Kaldor argues that the real threat to world peace is not the Soviet Union, but rivalry within the West. . . . War and Remembrance (Little, Brown, $15) is Herman Wouk’s sequel to The Winds of War. . . . Richard Condon, the author of The Manchurian Candidate, has written another political/spy thriller: Death of a Politician (Richard Marek, $10.95). . . . The Constitution: A Documentary and Narrative History (Morrow, $19.95) by Page Smith traces the history of the United States Constitution from its intellectual roots to its modern exegesis by liberal Supreme Court Justices. . . . Willie Morris writes an affectionate tribute in James Jones: A Friendship (Doubleday, $8.95). . . . In Strike Back at Cancer (Prentice-Hall, $12.95), Stephen A. Rapaport advises cancer patients on proper treatment, including an explanation of basic cancer therapies (including Laetrile), and a list of the best cancer doctors (4,734) and treatment centers (246) around the world. . . . Bearings: A Foreign Correspondent’s Life behind the Lines (Viking, $12.50) is Edward Behr’s memoir of reporting during the Algerian revolution and the Vietnam War, and from Mao’s China. . . . David Henderson discusses intolerable music and an improbable life in Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age (Doubleday, $12.95). . . . August Heckscher and Phyllis Robinson cannot say too many nice things about Fiorello LaGuardia in When LaGuardia Was Mayor: New York’s Legendary Years (Norton, $15).

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First Peek at November: New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren turns his satire on modern romance in Are You Happy? And Other Questions Lovers Ask (Pantheon, $3.95).

More from October: A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts (Putnam, $12.95) is another collection of Wm. F. Buckley Jr.’s notes, columns, and essays. . . . Reporter Steven Brill digs wide and deep for facts about The Teamsters (Simon & Schuster, $10.95). Brill theorizes, with the help of information from FBI files, about the murder and disposal of Jimmy Hoffa. . . . In The Disintegrating West (Hill and Wang, $10), Mary Kaldor argues that the real threat to world peace is not the Soviet Union, but rivalry within the West. . . . War and Remembrance (Little, Brown, $15) is Herman Wouk’s sequel to The Winds of War. . . . Richard Condon, the author of The Manchurian Candidate, has written another political/spy thriller: Death of a Politician (Richard Marek, $10.95). . . . The Constitution: A Documentary and Narrative History (Morrow, $19.95) by Page Smith traces the history of the United States Constitution from its intellectual roots to its modern exegesis by liberal Supreme Court Justices. . . . Willie Morris writes an affectionate tribute in James Jones: A Friendship (Doubleday, $8.95). . . . In Strike Back at Cancer (Prentice-Hall, $12.95), Stephen A. Rapaport advises cancer patients on proper treatment, including an explanation of basic cancer therapies (including Laetrile), and a list of the best cancer doctors (4,734) and treatment centers (246) around the world. . . . Bearings: A Foreign Correspondent’s Life behind the Lines (Viking, $12.50) is Edward Behr’s memoir of reporting during the Algerian revolution and the Vietnam War, and from Mao’s China. . . . David Henderson discusses intolerable music and an improbable life in Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age (Doubleday, $12.95). . . . August Heckscher and Phyllis Robinson cannot say too many nice things about Fiorello LaGuardia in When LaGuardia Was Mayor: New York’s Legendary Years (Norton, $15).