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One More from September: In Carter’s Betrayal of the South (Green Hill, $1.75), Jeffrey St. John warns that a Carter Presidency would be draped in imperial purple.

October Titles: The last years of the Stalin regime are the subject of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago III (Harper, $15). . . . Santa Barranza! Mr. Tom Wolfe’s new book of essays on sex, art, the intellectualoids, etc. is entitled Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (Farrar, $8.95). . . . Anita Loos rolls her tongue appreciatively over a half-century of celebrity in With a Cast of Thousands (Grosset, $14.95). . . . Pretty soon you can buy Jeffrey Potter’s Men, Money, and Magic: The Candid Life Story of Dorothy Schiff (Coward, McCann, $10). But the ebullient Mrs. Schiff couldn’t wait to get into print, so we already know the worst. . . . Walter Heller’s The Economy: Old Myths and New Realities (Norton, $8.95) is a collection of old Wall Street Journal pieces and a reworked speech to the American Economic Association, written in defense of the dismal profession. . . . Falstaff (Little, Brown, $8.95) is a novel in which the fat knight, aet. 81, offers a revisionist history of his career. The author is Frank Nye. . . . W. A. Swanberg’s new biography is Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist (Scribner’s, $15). Surely Swanberg’s describing Thomas as the “last idealist” is as infelicitous as Daniel Bell’s writing in the early Sixties of the “end of ideology.” . . . Mrs. Oral Roberts has written an autobiography entitled His Darling Wife, Evelyn (Dial, $6.95). It’s the bleat of the New Populism, folks. . . . Little Man, Little Man (Dial, $6.95) is by James Baldwin and concerns two boys growing up in Harlem: it makes good reading for adults and for little kids growing up in Scarsdale. … A seedy life is described by George McMillan in The Making of an Assassin: The Life of James Earl Ray (Little, Brown, $8.95). . . . Dorothy Rabinowitz has written New Lives: Survivors of the Holocaust in America (Knopf, $8.95). . . . The Letters of E. B. White (Harper, $15) are collected and edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth. … The Higher Animals: A Mark Twain Bestiary (T. Y. Crowell, $8.95) is a collection— edited by Maxwell Geismar and illustrated by Jean-Claude Suares—of Clemens’ observations upon the animal kingdom, culled from the corpus of his writings.

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One More from September: In Carter’s Betrayal of the South (Green Hill, $1.75), Jeffrey St. John warns that a Carter Presidency would be draped in imperial purple.

October Titles: The last years of the Stalin regime are the subject of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago III (Harper, $15). . . . Santa Barranza! Mr. Tom Wolfe’s new book of essays on sex, art, the intellectualoids, etc. is entitled Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (Farrar, $8.95). . . . Anita Loos rolls her tongue appreciatively over a half-century of celebrity in With a Cast of Thousands (Grosset, $14.95). . . . Pretty soon you can buy Jeffrey Potter’s Men, Money, and Magic: The Candid Life Story of Dorothy Schiff (Coward, McCann, $10). But the ebullient Mrs. Schiff couldn’t wait to get into print, so we already know the worst. . . . Walter Heller’s The Economy: Old Myths and New Realities (Norton, $8.95) is a collection of old Wall Street Journal pieces and a reworked speech to the American Economic Association, written in defense of the dismal profession. . . . Falstaff (Little, Brown, $8.95) is a novel in which the fat knight, aet. 81, offers a revisionist history of his career. The author is Frank Nye. . . . W. A. Swanberg’s new biography is Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist (Scribner’s, $15). Surely Swanberg’s describing Thomas as the “last idealist” is as infelicitous as Daniel Bell’s writing in the early Sixties of the “end of ideology.” . . . Mrs. Oral Roberts has written an autobiography entitled His Darling Wife, Evelyn (Dial, $6.95). It’s the bleat of the New Populism, folks. . . . Little Man, Little Man (Dial, $6.95) is by James Baldwin and concerns two boys growing up in Harlem: it makes good reading for adults and for little kids growing up in Scarsdale. … A seedy life is described by George McMillan in The Making of an Assassin: The Life of James Earl Ray (Little, Brown, $8.95). . . . Dorothy Rabinowitz has written New Lives: Survivors of the Holocaust in America (Knopf, $8.95). . . . The Letters of E. B. White (Harper, $15) are collected and edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth. … The Higher Animals: A Mark Twain Bestiary (T. Y. Crowell, $8.95) is a collection— edited by Maxwell Geismar and illustrated by Jean-Claude Suares—of Clemens’ observations upon the animal kingdom, culled from the corpus of his writings.