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Just out: Toynbee’s recipe for Surviving the Future is Gandhi, the mysterious East and all that (Oxford, $5.95). … The Mortgaged Heart is a collection of Carson McCullers’ essays, stories and verse (Houghton, $7.95). . . . Dickey, Ginsberg, Updike, Ferlinghetti and others all have a go at translating Yevtushenko in Stolen Apples (Doubleday, $7.95). . . . Think Tanks is Paul Dickson’s research job on Rand et al. (Atheneum, $10). . . . David Ben-Gurion’s Israel: A Personal History is big and detailed (Funk & Wagnalls, $17.50 to Dec. 31; then $20).

Cass Canfield, retired Harper boss and troglodyte liberal, out with his memoirs, Up and Down and Around ($8.95). The publisher, mirabile dictu, is a new Harper imprint called Harper’s Magazine Press. … The Horizon History of England, by Cambridge lecturer R. J. White, is the first of a series of popular histories of foreign countries (American Heritage, $8.95). . . . Gay Talese’s Honor Thy Father is a depth study of the M-f-a, with special attention to the family of Joseph (“Joe Bananas”) Bonanno (World, $15). . . . In The Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers Book, former NR editor Arlene Croce devotes one chapter to each of their ten incomparable musicals. Many photos from the films (Outer bridge & Dienstfrey, $10).

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Just out: Toynbee’s recipe for Surviving the Future is Gandhi, the mysterious East and all that (Oxford, $5.95). … The Mortgaged Heart is a collection of Carson McCullers’ essays, stories and verse (Houghton, $7.95). . . . Dickey, Ginsberg, Updike, Ferlinghetti and others all have a go at translating Yevtushenko in Stolen Apples (Doubleday, $7.95). . . . Think Tanks is Paul Dickson’s research job on Rand et al. (Atheneum, $10). . . . David Ben-Gurion’s Israel: A Personal History is big and detailed (Funk & Wagnalls, $17.50 to Dec. 31; then $20).

Cass Canfield, retired Harper boss and troglodyte liberal, out with his memoirs, Up and Down and Around ($8.95). The publisher, mirabile dictu, is a new Harper imprint called Harper’s Magazine Press. … The Horizon History of England, by Cambridge lecturer R. J. White, is the first of a series of popular histories of foreign countries (American Heritage, $8.95). . . . Gay Talese’s Honor Thy Father is a depth study of the M-f-a, with special attention to the family of Joseph (“Joe Bananas”) Bonanno (World, $15). . . . In The Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers Book, former NR editor Arlene Croce devotes one chapter to each of their ten incomparable musicals. Many photos from the films (Outer bridge & Dienstfrey, $10).