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More October Titles: Japan against the World, 1941-2041: The 100-Year War for Supremacy (Stein & Day, $16.95), by Russell Braddon, argues that the spirit which has produced an economic miracle of the first magnitude over the last 35 years is the same spirit that produced the Japanese quest for hegemony in World War II. By the year 2000, Braddon believes, Japan will be the world’s richest nation—a situation that would entail profound consequences for everyone, especially the United States.

Edward Bennett Williams for the Defense (Harper & Row, $20), by Robert Pack, is a professional biography of the attorney who grew up poor in Hartford, Connecticut, to become counsel for Joe McCarthy, Jimmy Hoffa, and other famous and infamous clients. . . . Gerry Spence’s new book is Of Murder and Madness (Doubleday, $17.95), an account of Spence’s successful efforts some years ago to get a client—an unemployed Mexican-American laborer in Rawlins, Wyoming—acquitted on an insanity plea.

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More October Titles: Japan against the World, 1941-2041: The 100-Year War for Supremacy (Stein & Day, $16.95), by Russell Braddon, argues that the spirit which has produced an economic miracle of the first magnitude over the last 35 years is the same spirit that produced the Japanese quest for hegemony in World War II. By the year 2000, Braddon believes, Japan will be the world’s richest nation—a situation that would entail profound consequences for everyone, especially the United States.

Edward Bennett Williams for the Defense (Harper & Row, $20), by Robert Pack, is a professional biography of the attorney who grew up poor in Hartford, Connecticut, to become counsel for Joe McCarthy, Jimmy Hoffa, and other famous and infamous clients. . . . Gerry Spence’s new book is Of Murder and Madness (Doubleday, $17.95), an account of Spence’s successful efforts some years ago to get a client—an unemployed Mexican-American laborer in Rawlins, Wyoming—acquitted on an insanity plea.