More October Titles: Landon Y. Jones, an editor at People magazine, argues in Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation (Coward, McCann, $15.95) that the 75 million kids born between 1946 and 1964 were raised to expect the world, are being forced to accept a very small part of it, and will harbor resentments against it until their dying day. . . . David Chaffetz’s On the Eve of Invasion: A Journey through Afghanistan (Regnery/Gateway, $13) portrays the condition of the Afghans before the Soviet Union stepped in to give them a leg up. . . . Man, the Promising Primate: The Condition of Human Evolution (Yale, $12.95), by Peter J. Wilson, looks to be an interesting book on the subject of the origins of social institutions and their effect upon human evolution. . . . The Ministry of Culture (Wyndham, $12.95), by Michael M. Mooney, takes on the White House Council for the Arts and Humanities and charges it with censorship, blacklisting, and all sorts of other activities not generally associated with people like Joan Mondale.
Unfinished Tales: J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, $15), edited by Christopher Tolkien, speaks for itself. . . . Noel Perrin, author of First Person Rural, bulls right ahead with Second Person Rural: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer (Go-dine, $10)., . . The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (Harcourt Brace, $14.95)— by Eudora Welty—gives you every story by Eudora Welty.
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