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Just Out: Publishers Weekly calls Gen. Thomas Lane’s The Breakdown of the Old Politics “an almost classic statement of the conservative position in America at this time” (Arlington, $8.95). Robert Sobel depicts nine business giants, shows what goes into the making of The Entrepreneurs (Weybright & Talley, $10). . . . Edward C. Banfield’s The Unheavenly City Revisited is a revision of the 1970 book (Little, Brown, $8.95).

Paperbacks. An optimist, Robert Vacca thinks The Coming Dark Age is a decade or two away (Anchor, Dec., $2.95). Upstate is Edmund Wilson’s memoir of life in northern New York (Noonday, Sept., $2.45). NR contributor Jared Lobdell edits A Tolkien Compass for Open Court ($2.95). A major sociological study, unrelievedly grim: Daniel Yankelovich’s The New Morality: A Profile of American Youth in the Seventies (McGraw-Hill, $2.95).

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Just Out: Publishers Weekly calls Gen. Thomas Lane’s The Breakdown of the Old Politics “an almost classic statement of the conservative position in America at this time” (Arlington, $8.95). Robert Sobel depicts nine business giants, shows what goes into the making of The Entrepreneurs (Weybright & Talley, $10). . . . Edward C. Banfield’s The Unheavenly City Revisited is a revision of the 1970 book (Little, Brown, $8.95).

Paperbacks. An optimist, Robert Vacca thinks The Coming Dark Age is a decade or two away (Anchor, Dec., $2.95). Upstate is Edmund Wilson’s memoir of life in northern New York (Noonday, Sept., $2.45). NR contributor Jared Lobdell edits A Tolkien Compass for Open Court ($2.95). A major sociological study, unrelievedly grim: Daniel Yankelovich’s The New Morality: A Profile of American Youth in the Seventies (McGraw-Hill, $2.95).