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These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new. Time, July 5, 1976.

BILLIARDS AT HALF PAST NINE

by Heinrich Böll

Birding

A CAPE COD JOURNAL by Erma J. Fisk.

BLACK CARGOES

by Daniel P. Mannix with Malcolm Cowley

BLACK CONCEIT

by John Leonard

Böll, Heinrich

BILLIARDS AT HALF PAST NINE

Book Reviews -- Modest Proposals From a Spent Book Reviewer

Like farmers who are recompensed for ungrown wheat, publishers should get an allowance for unpublished corn. New York Magazine, 1974.

Boyle, Robert

THE HUDSON RIVER

Buchan, John

GREENMANTLE; JOHN MACNAB; THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDS; CASTLE GAY by John Buchan

BUCKING THE SUN

by Ivan Doig

Buckley, William F.

RACING THROUGH PARADISE A Pacific Passage.

Budapest

CRY HUNGARY! Uprising 1956 by Reg Gadney
HUNGARY AND THE SOVIET BLOC by Charles Gati

Budapest

Hungarian Revolution 1956 viewed 10 years later. If enough of us get killed something may happen.

Budapest

Hungarian Revolution 1956 viewed 30 years later.

Burgess, Anthony

THE CLOCKWORK TESTAMENT OR ENDERBY'S END

BURTON

by Byron Farwell

CAMBERWELL BEAUTY AND OTHER STORIES, The

by V.S. Pritchett

CANCER WARD, The

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Cardinals

A Matter of States' rites and the Cardinal Virtues. When it comes to the choice of state birds, work-a-daddy Cardinals are practically coming in the windows.

Carlisle, Henry

THE JONAH MAN

CAT AND MOUSE

by Günter Grass

CAT'S PAJAMAS & WITCH'S MILK, The

by Peter De Vries

Chambers, Whittaker

ODYSSEY OF A FRIEND: WHITTAKER CHAMBERS' LETTERS TO WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. 1954-1961

CHEKHOV

by Ernest J. Simmons

Childers, Erskine

The Irish struggle for home rule. No revolution ever produced a nobler or purer spirit.

Christiansen, Rupert

PARIS BABYLON: The Story of the Paris Commune

Christmas ideas for the Under Sixes

German Aircraft of the First World War
ABC Book of Early Americana by Eric Sloane
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Roosevelt Grady by Louisa R. Shotwell
Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back by Shel Silverstein Time, December 13, 1963

Churchill -- WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. Vol. VI: FINEST HOUR 1939-1941

by Martin Gilbert

CITIES OF THE FLESH

by Zoe Oldenbourg

CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

by Simon Schama

CLOCKWORK TESTAMENT OR ENDERBY'S END, The

by Anthony Burgess

Cold War: effect on American life

RIDING HIGH by Carl Solberg

Cole, Hubert

LAVAL

Collier, John

MILTON'S PARADISE LOST: A Screen Play for the Cinema of the Mind

Columbus -- Where Columbus Was Coming From

Europe circa 1492 was a place of savagery.

Commune -- Paris Commune

PARIS BABYLON: The Story of the Paris Commune by Rupert Christiansen.

COMPANY, The

by John Ehrlichman

Connell, Jr., Evan S.

NOTES FROM A BOTTLE FOUND ON THE BEACH AT CARMEL

CONQUEST OF LONDON and THE MIDDLE YEARS, Vols. II & III of HENRY JAMES, The

by Leon Edel

CONUNDRUM

by Jan Morris Anatomy v. Destiny.

Craven, Margaret

I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME

Cremin, Lawrence A.

AMERICAN EDUCATION: THE METROPOLITAN EXPERIENCE

Criticism

MATTHEW ARNOLD - LECTURES & ESSAYS IN CRITICISM: Vol. III in a ten-volume series

CRY HUNGARY! Uprising 1956

by Reg Gadney

cummings, e.e.

Grubby Cherub. DREAMS IN THE MIRROR by Richard S. Kennedy. A biography of e.e.cummings.

Obituary.

by Richard M. Watt

THE PRIME OF LIFE

A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE: ALGERIA 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne.

De Vries, Peter

INTO YOUR TENT I'LL CREEP

De Vries, Peter

THE CAT'S PAJAMAS & WITCH'S MILK

DECLINE OF THE WEST, The

by Oswald Spengler

Derr, Mark

DOG'S BEST FRIEND Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship

Detective fiction

GREENMANTLE; JOHN MACNAB; THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDS; CASTLE GAY by John Buchan

Dinesen, Isak

EHRENGARD

DOG'S BEST FRIEND Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship

by Mark Derr

Doig, Ivan

BUCKING THE SUN

DREAMS IN THE MIRROR

by Richard S. Kennedy. A biography of e.e.cummings.

Duffy, Maureen

ALL HEAVEN IN A RAGE

Dundy, Elaine

THE OLD MAN AND ME

Dunn, Susan

SISTER REVOLUTIONS: FRENCH LIGHTNING, AMERICAN LIGHT.

Edel, Leon

THE CONQUEST OF LONDON and THE MIDDLE YEARS, Vols. II & III of HENRY JAMES

Education

AMERICAN EDUCATION: THE METROPOLITAN EXPERIENCE by Lawrence A. Cremin

Education

THE HARVARD CENTURY The Making of a University To a Nation by Richard Norton Smith. Is Harvard America's "de facto national university" and "an instrument of national purpose" to boot ??

Education

THE SCHOOLS WE DESERVE: Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Time.
by Diane Ravitch. The great enemy of educaton, after all, is not discipline or work or ignorance, but boredom.

Education

Tough talk on teaching with William Bennett, then chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanitites. Educational presumptions doomed to failure

Egan, Timothy

LASSO THE WIND Away to the New West

EHRENGARD

by Isak Dinesen

Ehrlichman, John

THE COMPANY

Eisenstaedt, Alfred

On Assignment with one of the world's great photographers

Eliot, George

GEORGE ELIOT, A BIOGRAPHY by Gordon S. Haight

ELIZABETH APPLETON

by John O'Hara

ENCHANTED PLACES, The

by Christopher Milne. Pooh Bear Essentials.

Enderby, F.X.

THE CLOCKWORK TESTAMENT OR ENDERBY'S END by Anthony Burgess

ENDING UP

by Kinsley Amis

Engerman. Stanley L. and Robert William Fogel

TIME ON THE CROSS. Slavery reinterpreted by computers.

English Channel -- Tapestried Tales of Two Rough Channel Crossings

Invasions of England in 1066 by the Normans and of France in 1944 by the Allies, revisited as needlework.

EPISTLE TO A GODSON

W.H. Auden

Espey, John

STRONG DRINK, STRONG LANGUAGE. Espey offers a mini-autobiography, some intriguing glints of pre-war China and an urbane probe into the tense, funny, mysterious inner life of a loving upperclass family.

Eton

THE FOURTH OF JUNE by David Benedictus

Europe circa 1492

A place of savagery when Columbus sailed to the New World.

Farwell, Byron

BURTON

FATHER'S DAY

by John Calvin Batchelor

Faulkner, William

THE REIVERS

Feiffer, Jules

HARRY, THE RAT WITH WOMEN

Feminism

Feminist books: a list of some of the best feminist books available in 1972: THE FEMALE EUNUCH by Germaine Greer; WOMAN'S PLACE by Cynthia F. Epstein; THINKING ABOUT WOMEN by Mary Ellmann; BORN FEMALE by Caroline Bird; REBIRTH OF FEMINISM by Judith Hole and Ellen Levine.

FIFTIES, The

by David Halberstam

FIRST CIRCLE, The

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fishing

Write, fish, and enjoy Shakespeare in Oregon.

Fisk, Erma J.

A CAPE COD JOURNAL. Fisk's life as a birder.

Fleming, Ian

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE

FLY AND THE FLY-BOTTLE

by Ved Mehta

Fly Fishing

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT by Norman Maclean, film adaptation by Robert Redford.

Fogel, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman

TIME ON THE CROSS. Slavery reinterpreted by cliometricians and computers.

Ford, Ford Maddox

THE SADDEST STORY by Arthur Mizener

FOURTH OF JUNE, The

by David Benedictus. Eton choler.

Fox, Michael

THE SOUL OF THE WOLF

France

A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE: ALGERIA 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne.

French Photographic Pioneers -- An Exhibition in New York.

Time, February 16, 1981

French Revolution

CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité ??

French Revolution

SISTER REVOLUTIONS: FRENCH LIGHTNING, AMERICAN LIGHT by Susan Dunn

French Smile

A nationwide contest to promote tourist goodwill in France, 1965.

French Writers

La Nouvelle Vague - Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraulte, Michel Butor, Claude Mauriac, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, Marc Saporta, etc. 1962.

Friends Seminary

Timothy Foote,'44, a student at New York Friends during World War II, invokes a line-up of teachers -- Hinman, Hunter, Reede and Wilcox -- who could have made any school great.

Frog Prince

Look out! Disenchantment when he reverts to his true self.

FROM THE FIFTEENTH DISTRICT

by Mavis Gallant

Gadney, Reg

CRY HUNGARY! Uprising 1956

Gallant, Mavis

FROM THE FIFTEENTH DISTRICT

Gardner, John

THE SUNLIGHT DIALOGUES

Gardner, John

GRENDEL

Gardner, John

NICKEL MOUNTAIN

Gati, Charles

HUNGARY AND THE SOVIET BLOC

Genet, Jean

OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS

GEORGE ELIOT, A BIOGRAPHY

by Gordon S. Haight.

German Writers post WWII

The Guilt of the Lambs: THE TIN DRUM by Günter Grass; BILLIARDS AT HALF PAST NINE by Heinrich Böll; SPECULATIONS ABOUT JAKOB and THE THIRD BOOK ABOUT ACHIM by Uwe Johnson.

Gibraltar

The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1790.

Gilbert, Martin

THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A COMPLETE HISTORY

Gilbert, Martin

WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. Vol. VI: FINEST HOUR 1939-1941

GIRLS, The

by Henri de Montherlant

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

ITALIAN JOURNEY translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer

Goldberg, Vicki

MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE

GOLDEN FRUITS, The

by Nathalie Sarraute

Golden Receiver

Sports afield with a Golden Receiver. Man and dog romp in Washington's Rock Creek Park.

Golden Retriever

Getting a real grip on the news. Dog says goodbye to the New York Times and scorns the Washington Post.

Golding, William

THE SPIRE

Goldman, Eric F.

THE TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON

Gooney Birds

Albatrosses (400,000) on Midway.

Gover, Robert

ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR MISUNDERSTANDING

GOY, The

by Mark Harris

Grass, Günter

CAT AND MOUSE

Grass, Günter

THE TIN DRUM

Gray, Francine du Plessix

LOVERS AND TYRANTS

Greene, Graham

A SORT OF LIFE.

Greene, Graham

THE HONORARY CONSUL.

GRENDEL

by John Gardner

GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOL I, The

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Translated by Thomas P. Whitney.

Hadrian's Wall.

Stones at the edge of the civilized world which separated the barbarias from the Romans

Haight, Gordon S.

GEORGE ELIOT, A BIOGRAPHY

HAIL TO THE CHIEFS: How to Tell Your Polks From Your Tylers

by Barbara Holland

Halberstam, David

THE FIFTIES

Hares

To generations of male English field observers nothing seemed more evident than that .. March was the big mating month for Lepus europaeus, the English hare, and that the pugilists were males fighting males over females.

Harris, Mark

THE GOY

HARRY, THE RAT WITH WOMEN

by Jules Feiffer

Harvard -- The Trouble with Harvard

A great ocean liner without a rudder!

HARVARD CENTURY: The Making of a University To a Nation, The

by Richard Norton Smith

Harvard

THE HARVARD CENTURY The Making of a University To a Nation by Richard Norton Smith. Is Harvard America's "de facto national university" and "an instrument of national purpose" to boot ??

HAT ON THE BED, The

by John O'Hara

Hemingway, Ernest

ISLANDS IN THE STREAM

HERETICS, The

by Walter Nigg. Theology's underground.

Hess, Rudolf

THE UNINVITED ENVOY by James Leaser

Hillaby, John

JOURNEY HOME: A WALK ABOUT ENGLAND

Hillerman, Tony

SELDOM DISAPPOINTED: A Memoir

Hillerman, Tony

TALKING GOD

Historians: Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and Vernon L. Parrington

THE PROGRESSIVE HISTORIANS by Richard Hofstadter

History -- How do you hang onto the Past?

CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama
THE LAST OF THE FATHERS, JAMES MADISON AND THE REPUBLICAN LEGACY
by Drew McCoy.
WITNESS TO THE YOUNG REPUBLIC: A YANKEE'S JOURNAL by Benjamin Brown French.
GOD GAVE US THIS COUNTRY by Bill Gilbert.
THE LONG GRAY LINE by Rick Atkinson.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A COMPLETE HISTORY by Martin Gilbert.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR by John Keegan.
THE BORROWED YEARS, 1939 TO 1941 by Richard M. Ketchum.
THE GRAVE OF ALICE B. TOKLAS AND OTHER REPORTS FROM THE PAST by Otto Friedrich.

Hofstadter, Richard

AMERICAN VIOLENCE, A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY

Hofstadter, Richard

THE PROGRESSIVE HISTORIANS

Holland, Barbara

HAIL TO THE CHIEFS: How to Tell Your Polks From Your Tylers

HOME IS THE SAILOR

by Jorge Amado

HONORARY CONSUL, The

by Greene, Graham.

Horne, Alistair

A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE: ALGERIA 1954-1962

To the Harbor Light

by Samuel Beckett

by Robert H. Boyle

THE LIVING PRESIDENCY

Hungarian Revolution 1956

Viewed 10 years later.

Hungarian Revolution 1956

Viewed 30 years later.

Hungary

CRY HUNGARY! Uprising 1956 by Reg Gadney
HUNGARY AND THE SOVIET BLOC by Charles Gati

Hunter, Jim

A PLACE OF STONE

I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME

by Margaret Craven

Ids of March, The

IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY, The

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

INTO YOUR TENT I'LL CREEP

by Peter De Vries

Invasions

England in 1066 by the Normans and France in 1944 by the Allies, revisited as tapestries.

Irish struggle for home rule

Erskine Childers

ISLANDS IN THE STREAM

by Ernest Hemingway

IT WASN'T PRETTY, FOLKS, BUT DIDN'T WE HAVE FUN? Esquire in the Sixties

by Carol Polsgrove

ITALIAN JOURNEY

by J. W. Goethe translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer

James, Henry

THE CONQUEST OF LONDON and THE MIDDLE YEARS, Vols. II & III of HENRY JAMES by Leon Edel

JEFFERSON'S MOOSE -- AND OTHER STORIES

An address given by Timothy Foote on the occasion of his retirement from Smithsonian Magazine on January 22, 1999.

JEWEL IN THE CROWN, The

by Paul Scott

JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL

by Richard Bach

JOHN KEATS

by Walter Jackson Bate, Harvard University Press.
by Aileen Ward, Viking.

Johnson, Lyndon

THE TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON by Eric F. Goldman

Johnson, Uwe

SPECULATIONS ABOUT JAKOB and THE THIRD BOOK ABOUT ACHIM

JONAH MAN, The

by Henry Carlisle

JOURNEY HOME: A WALK ABOUT ENGLAND

Hillaby, John

Keats

JOHN KEATS by Aileen Ward

Keats

JOHN KEATS by Walter Jackson Bate

Kee, Robert

THE LAUREL AND THE IVY: THE STORY OF CHARLES STEWART PARNELL AND IRISH NATIONALISM.

Kennedy, Richard S.

DREAMS IN THE MIRROR. A biography of e.e.cummings.

Khruschev, Nikita

Khruschev's visit to Yugoslavia in 1955.

Kipling, Rudyard

Making a comeback, Oh Best Beloved, fifty years on.

Languth, A.J.

SAKI: A LIFE OF HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

LASSO THE WIND Away to the New West

by Timothy Egan.

LAUREL AND THE IVY, The

The Story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish Nationalism by Robert Kee.

LAVAL

by Hubert Cole

Le Carré, John

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

Le Carré, John

TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY

Leaser, James

THE UNINVITED ENVOY

Leonard, John

BLACK CONCEIT

Lessing, Doris

THE SUMMER BEFORE THE DARK

Levron, Jacques

POMPADOUR

Lewis, W.H.

THE SUNSET OF THE SPLENDID CENTURY

Leyden -- The Siege of Leyden

How the Netherlands escaped the grip of Catholic Spain and the Holy Roman Empire in 1518.

LIFE AND TIMES OF HORATIO HORNBLOWER, The

by C. Northcote Parkinson.

LIFE BEFORE MAN

by Margaret Atwood.

LIFE Photographers: What They saw, The

-- editor John Loengard

review by Timothy Foote, October 6, 2010

LIVING PRESIDENCY, The

by Emmet John Hughes

Loengard, John, editor

LIFE Photographers: What They saw, The

review by Timothy Foote, October 6, 2010

Loeser, Katinka

TOMORROW WILL BE MONDAY

Louis XIV

THE SUNSET OF THE SPLENDID CENTURY by W. H. Lewis

LOVERS AND TYRANTS

by Francine du Plessix Gray

LUCE AND HIS EMPIRE

by W.A.SwanberG. A hostile biography of Henry Luce.

Maclean, Norman

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT. Film adaptation by Robert Redford

Madison, James

After more than two centuries, this may be Mr. Madison's year.

Madison, James

What if, back in 1788, we hadn't ratified Mr. Madison's constitution?

Malcolm X

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X with the assistance of Alex Haley.THE SPEECHES OF MALCOLM X AT HARVARD edited by Archie Epps.MALCOLM X, THE MAN AND HIS TIMES edited by John Henrik Clarke.

Malin

The Importance (to the French) of Being Malin.

Manceron, Claude

THE WIND FROM AMERICA, translated by Nancy Amphoux.

Mannix, Daniel P.

BLACK CARGOES

MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE

by Vicki Goldberg

MARRY ME

by John Updike

Mason, John T. (editor)

THE PACIFIC WAR REMEMBERED: An Oral History Collection.

MATTHEW ARNOLD - LECTURES & ESSAYS IN CRITICISM: Vol. III in a ten-volume series

edited by R.H. Super

McMahen, Thomas

McKay's Bees

McMurtry, Larry

ROADS Driving America's Great Highways

McNamee, Thomas

THE RETURN OF THE WOLF TO YELLOWSTONE

Mehta, Ved

FLY AND THE FLY-BOTTLE

MEN AND ANGELS

by Theodora Ward

Midway Atoll

Where the Gooney Birds are. 400.000 albatros pairs nest on Midway Atoll.

Millenium

An excuse to make 1,000-year leaps backward into history.

Miller, Henry

TROPIC OF CAPRICORN

Milne, Christopher

THE ENCHANTED PLACES. Pooh Bear Essentials.

MILTON'S PARADISE LOST: A Screen Play for the Cinema of the Mind

by John Collier

Mizener, Arthur

THE SADDEST STORY

Mojtabai, A.G.

MUNDOME

Montherlant, Henri de

THE GIRLS

Morgan, Marabel

TOTAL WOMAN 1973 and TOTAL JOY 1977.

Morris, Jan

CONUNDRUM. Anatomy v. Destiny.

Mugging

Be Kind to Your Mugger: Hand thrust forward in his jacket pocket, the first figure said. "Gimme your money or I'll cut you." Except for an instant when his breath came short, the householder did not feel afraid. Or angry. Time, February 21, 1983.

MUNDOME

by A.G. Mojtabai

Munro, Hector Hugh

SAKI: A LIFE OF HECTOR HUGH MUNRO by A.J. Langguth

Nazi Guilt

Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Billiards at Half Past Nine by Heinrich Böll
Speculations About Jakob and The Third Book About Achim by Uwe Johnson

Neoconservatism

THE NEOCONSERVATIVES by Peter Steinfels

NEOCONSERVATIVES, The

by Peter Steinfels

Neo-Realists, The

La Nouvelle Vague - Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraulte, Michel Butor, Claude Mauriac, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, Marc Saporta, etc. 1962.

New Housewife Blues, The

TOTAL WOMAN 1973 and TOTAL JOY 1977 by Marabel Morgan.

NICKEL MOUNTAIN

by John Gardner

Nigg, Walter

THE HERETICS.

NOTES FROM A BOTTLE FOUND ON THE BEACH AT CARMEL

by Evan S. Connell, Jr.

NUREMBERG AND VIETNAM: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

by Telford Taylor

ODYSSEY OF A FRIEND: WHITTAKER CHAMBERS' LETTERS TO WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. 1954-1961

ELIZABETH APPLETON

THE HAT ON THE BED

by David Stacton

by Elaine Dundy

CITIES OF THE FLESH

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE

by Ian Fleming

O'Nan, Stewart

A WORLD AWAY

ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR MISUNDERSTANDING

by Robert Gover

Operation Sail

Aboard the Topsail Schooner Juan Sebastian de Elcano

OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS

by Jean Genet

PACIFIC WAR REMEMBERED: An Oral History Collection, The

by John T. Mason (editor)

PARADISE LOST: A Screen Play for the Cinema of the Mind

by John Collier

PARIS BABYLON: The Story of the Paris Commune

by Rupert Chirstiansen

Parkinson, C. Northcote

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HORATIO HORNBLOWER

Peacocks

And how they grew prideful in medieval Europe. Casting some reflections upon the peacock's "I."

PEOPLE OF THE BOOK

by David Stacton

Pesetsky, Bette

AUTHOR FROM A SAVAGE PEOPLE

PETTY DEMON, The

by Fyodor Sologub

Photographers: What They saw, The, LIFE

-- editor John Loengard

review by Timothy Foote, October 6, 2010

Photographic Pioneers from France -- An Exhibition in New York.

Time, February 16, 1981.

Photography

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Photography

MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE by Vicki Goldberg

Pit bull wars

How trainer Vicki Hearne saved Bandit from the coils of the law.

Pocketa Pocketa School, The

With other machines also turning to the muse, there is the chance of a whole new school of poetry growing up.

Poets

In the opening address at the National Poetry Festival in Washington (the first in U.S. history), Randall Jarrell surveyed American poetry and the poets of this century and delivered himself of some tart judgments. Time, November 9, 1962.

Poets

SELECTED POEMS by John Crowe Ransom

Polsgrove, Carol

IT WASN'T PRETTY, FOLKS, BUT DIDN'T WE HAVE FUN? Esquire in the Sixties

POMPADOUR

by Jacques Levron

Potter, Beatrix

A tale of some tails, and the story of their shy creator.

PRIME OF LIFE, The

by Simone de Beauvoir

Pritchett, V.S.

THE CAMBERWELL BEAUTY AND OTHER STORIES

PROGRESSIVE HISTORIANS, The

by Richard Hofstadter

RACING THROUGH PARADISE A Pacific Passage.
By William F. Buckley Jr.

RADICAL CHIC AND MAU-MAUING THE FLAK CATCHERS

by Tom Wolfe

Rankin, Hugh

REBELS AND REDCOATS

Ransom, John Crowe

SELECTED POEMS

Ravitch, Diane

THE SCHOOLS WE DESERVE: Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Time.

REBELS AND REDCOATS

by Hugh Rankin and George Scheer

Redford, Robert

Film adaptation of A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT by Norman Maclean

REIVERS, The

by William Faulkner

RETURN OF THE WOLF TO YELLOWSTONE, The

by Thomas McNamee.

Reviews

Modest Proposals From a Spent Book Reviewer: Like farmers who are recompensed for ungrown wheat, publishers should get an allowance for unpublished corn. New York Magazine, 1974.

Revolution -- French Revolution

CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama.

RIDING HIGH

by Carl Solberg

RIGHT STUFF, The

by Tom Wolfe. The Hardy Boys in outer space.

ROADS Driving America's Great Highways

by Larry McMurtry

Roth, Hal

WE FOLLOWED ODYSSEUS

Russian Writers post WWII

After Silence, Human Voices: Fedor Abramov, Vladimir Dudintsev (Not By Bread Alone) Vasily Aksenov (Ticket to the Stars) Yuri Kazakov (Going to Town) Vladimir Maximov (A Man Survives) plus poets Evgeny Evtushencko and Andrei Voznesensky.

SADDEST STORY, The

by Arthur Mizener

Sailing

Operation Sail Aboard the Topsail Schooner Juan Sebastian de Elcano

Sailing

The 1977 America's Cup brings out all the low dodges, delusive hopes and suspensions of common sense so essential to refined underdoggery.

SAINT GENET

by Jean-Paul Sartre

SAKI: A LIFE OF HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

by A.J. Langguth

Sark

An English island just off the coast of France.

Sarraute, Nathalie

THE GOLDEN FRUITS

Sartre, Jean-Paul

SAINT GENET

Schama, Simon

CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

Scheer, George

REBELS AND REDCOATS

Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur M.

THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY

Schools -- THE SCHOOLS WE DESERVE: Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Time

by Diane Ravitch

Schools

AMERICAN EDUCATION: THE METROPOLITAN EXPERIENCE by Lawrence A. Cremin

Schwartz, Marion

A HISTORY OF DOGS IN THE EARLY AMERICAS

Scott, Paul

THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN

Second World War -- THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A COMPLETE HISTORY

by Martin Gilbert

Seige -- The Seige of Gibraltar

The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1790.

Seige -- The Siege of Leyden

How the Netherlands escaped the grip of Catholic Spain and the Holy Roman Empire in 1518.

SELDOM DISAPPOINTED: A Memoir

by Tony Hillerman

SELECTED POEMS

by John Crowe Ransom

Sex and Tennis

Why couples maybe shouldn't play mixed doubles.

Sheepdog trials: freewill vs obedience

A good dog knows what to do.

SILMARILLION, The

by J.R.R. Tolkien. Middle-Earth Genesis.

Simenon, Georges

THE BELLS OF BICèTRE

Simmons, Ernest J.

CHEKHOV

SISTER REVOLUTIONS: FRENCH LIGHTNING, AMERICAN LIGHT

by Susan Dunn.

Slave trade

BLACK CARGOES by Daniel P. Mannix with Malcolm Cowley

Slavery reinterpreted by computers

TIME ON THE CROSS by cliometricians Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.

Sloops

The 1977 America's Cup brings out all the low dodges, delusive hopes and suspensions of common sense so essential to refined underdoggery.

Smile -- The French Smile

The French Smile. A nationwide contest to promote tourist goodwill in France, 1965.

Smith, Richard Norton

THE HARVARD CENTURY The Making of a University To a Nation

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, The

Gore Vidal.

Solberg, Carl

RIDING HIGH

Sologub, Fyodor

THE PETTY DEMON

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

AUGUST 1914

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

THE CANCER WARD

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

THE FIRST CIRCLE

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOL I (translated by Thomas P. Whitney) and LETTER TO THE SOVIET LEADERS (translated by Hilary Steinberg).

SOUL OF THE WOLF, The

by Michael Fox

Sourire -- Opération Sourire

The French Smile. A nationwide contest to promote tourist goodwill in France, 1965.

Soviet -- LETTER TO THE SOVIET LEADERS

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Translated by Hilary Steinberg.

Soviet Bloc -- HUNGARY AND THE SOVIET BLOC

by Charles Gati

SPECULATIONS ABOUT JAKOB

by Uwe Johnson

Spengler, Oswald

THE DECLINE OF THE WEST

SPIRE, The

by William Golding

SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, The

by John Le Carré

OLD ACQUAINTANCE

PEOPLE OF THE BOOK

APOLLINAIRE

THE NEOCONSERVATIVES

STRONG DRINK, STRONG LANGUAGE

by John Espey. Espey offers a mini-autobiography, some intriguing glints of pre-war China and an urbane probe into the tense, funny, mysterious inner life of a loving upperclass family.

Submarine

A one-man submarine that can be run by just about anybody, dive safely to 250 ft., and stay submerged for an hour.

Suicide

Four books about suicide: In a Darkness by James A. Wechsler; The Savage God
by A. Alvarez; Suicide by Jacques Choron; Understanding and Counseling the Suicidal Person by Paul W. Pretzel.

SUMMER BEFORE THE DARK, The

by Doris Lessing

SUNLIGHT DIALOGUES, The

by John Garndner

SUNSET OF THE SPLENDID CENTURY, The

by W. H. Lewis

Super, R.H. editor

MATTHEW ARNOLD - LECTURES & ESSAYS IN CRITICISM: Vol. III in a ten-volume series

Swanberg, W.A.

LUCE AND HIS EMPIRE. A hostile biogaphy of Henry Luce.

TALKING GOD

-- by Tony Hillerman