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Two More from August: Lino A. Graglia’s Disaster by Decree (Cornell University, $11.50) is a coruscating study of court-ordered integration: it argues that from a finding that mandatory segregation is illegal it does not follow that compulsory integration is justifiable…. The Transformation of Southern Politics: Social Change and Political Consequence since 1945 (Basic, $17.50), by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries, is modeled on V. O. Key’s Southern Politics in State and Nation (1949); it is based upon numerous interviews with Southern politicos, and sketches a broad socio-political background. Jimmy Carter’s grinning face graces the jacket.

September Titles: Brian Crozier, with the aid of Eric Chou, has written a biography, The Man Who Lost China (Scribner’s, $12.95), of Chiang Kai-shek, who regarded the Reds as “powerless puppets.”… Nat Hentoff’s Jazz Is (Random House/ Ridge Press, $10) offers the musings of a jazz critic of thirty years’ practice… Howard Needham, who wrote the text, and Ted Needham, who took the photos, study what they call “the end of an agony” in their book Alcatraz (Celestial Arts, $3.95)…. Art Buchwald is publishing Washington Is Leaking (Putnam, $8.95), his latest volume of columns…. William L. Shirer describes his progress from Chicago and Cedar Rapids to the Paris Tribune in his first autobiographical installment: Twentieth Century Journey: A Memoir of a Life and Times, Vol. I (Simon & Schuster, $12.50)…. The life of a young Massachusetts state police corporal is the subject of George V. Higgins’ new novel, The Judgment of Deke Hunter (Atlantic/Little, Brown, $8.95)…. Seventy years ago, a Pittsburgh millionaire shot to death his wife’s lover, an architect, at Madison Square Garden, thereby providing the subject of Michael MacDonald Mooney’s Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White: Love and Death in the Gilded Age (Morrow, $10)…. David McLellan’s Dean Acheson: The State Department Years (Dodd, Mead, $17.50) suggests that for a certain type of person, Henry Kissinger makes Acheson look good…. Bruce Mazlish’s Kissinger: The European Mind in American Policy (Basic, $12.50) is another one of those books based on many interviews and containing unattributed quotations.

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Two More from August: Lino A. Graglia’s Disaster by Decree (Cornell University, $11.50) is a coruscating study of court-ordered integration: it argues that from a finding that mandatory segregation is illegal it does not follow that compulsory integration is justifiable…. The Transformation of Southern Politics: Social Change and Political Consequence since 1945 (Basic, $17.50), by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries, is modeled on V. O. Key’s Southern Politics in State and Nation (1949); it is based upon numerous interviews with Southern politicos, and sketches a broad socio-political background. Jimmy Carter’s grinning face graces the jacket.

September Titles: Brian Crozier, with the aid of Eric Chou, has written a biography, The Man Who Lost China (Scribner’s, $12.95), of Chiang Kai-shek, who regarded the Reds as “powerless puppets.”… Nat Hentoff’s Jazz Is (Random House/ Ridge Press, $10) offers the musings of a jazz critic of thirty years’ practice… Howard Needham, who wrote the text, and Ted Needham, who took the photos, study what they call “the end of an agony” in their book Alcatraz (Celestial Arts, $3.95)…. Art Buchwald is publishing Washington Is Leaking (Putnam, $8.95), his latest volume of columns…. William L. Shirer describes his progress from Chicago and Cedar Rapids to the Paris Tribune in his first autobiographical installment: Twentieth Century Journey: A Memoir of a Life and Times, Vol. I (Simon & Schuster, $12.50)…. The life of a young Massachusetts state police corporal is the subject of George V. Higgins’ new novel, The Judgment of Deke Hunter (Atlantic/Little, Brown, $8.95)…. Seventy years ago, a Pittsburgh millionaire shot to death his wife’s lover, an architect, at Madison Square Garden, thereby providing the subject of Michael MacDonald Mooney’s Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White: Love and Death in the Gilded Age (Morrow, $10)…. David McLellan’s Dean Acheson: The State Department Years (Dodd, Mead, $17.50) suggests that for a certain type of person, Henry Kissinger makes Acheson look good…. Bruce Mazlish’s Kissinger: The European Mind in American Policy (Basic, $12.50) is another one of those books based on many interviews and containing unattributed quotations.