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Out This Month: First two volumes of ex-New Statesman editor Kingsley Martin’s autobiography. Father Figures (Regnery, $6.50) covers 1897-1931, Editor ($7.50) spans 1931-1945. . . . Left at the Post is Nicholas von Hoffman’s aptly named collection of his Washington Post articles (Quadrangle, $5.95). . . . Hope against Hope is a memoir by Nadezhda Mandelstam about husband Ossip, Russian poet and victim of the Purge in 1938 (Atheneum, $10).

PolitiCs anD Publishing: American Library Association moving from liberal to radical. Recent convention passed resolution asking ALA to define its “broad social responsibility” for “solving the critical problems of society” and “to take a position for the guidance and support of its members on current critical issues.” This is a break from ALA’s supposed neutrality, and the turn won’t be rightward.

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Out This Month: First two volumes of ex-New Statesman editor Kingsley Martin’s autobiography. Father Figures (Regnery, $6.50) covers 1897-1931, Editor ($7.50) spans 1931-1945. . . . Left at the Post is Nicholas von Hoffman’s aptly named collection of his Washington Post articles (Quadrangle, $5.95). . . . Hope against Hope is a memoir by Nadezhda Mandelstam about husband Ossip, Russian poet and victim of the Purge in 1938 (Atheneum, $10).

PolitiCs anD Publishing: American Library Association moving from liberal to radical. Recent convention passed resolution asking ALA to define its “broad social responsibility” for “solving the critical problems of society” and “to take a position for the guidance and support of its members on current critical issues.” This is a break from ALA’s supposed neutrality, and the turn won’t be rightward.