Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Jul. 29, 1966

(4 of 4)

JUSTICE IN JERUSALEM, by Gideon Hausner. Prosecutor Hausner's taut account of the arrest and trial of Adolf Eichmann.

MR. CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN, by Justin Kaplan. No one disputes Mark Twain's lofty position in literature, but Author Kaplan's searching biography reveals him as an embittered and despairing cynic who courted the values of his time and despised himself for doing so.

JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. Johnson's Boswell comes stunningly to life in this warm portrait of a rakish genius.

THE BIG KNOCKOVER, by Dashiell Hammett. In a collection of his early detective stories, the late founding father of the tough-guy school of fiction proves that he is still at the head of his class.

ARIEL, by Sylvia Plath. Author Plath, who committed suicide at 30, wrote a mass of morbid but powerful poetry in the last few months of her unhappy life, and in the three years since her death has become the most celebrated woman poet of her generation.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)

2. The Adventurers, Robbins (2)

3. Tai-Pan, Clavell (4)

4. The Source, Michener (3)

5. Tell No Man, St. Johns (5)

6. The Embezzler, Auchincloss (6)

7. Those Who Love, Stone (8)

8. The Double Image, MacInnes (7)

9. The Detective, Thorp 10. I, the King, Keyes (9)

NONFICTION

1. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (1)

2. The Last Battle, Ryan (2)

3. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (3)

4. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (4)

5. In Cold Blood, Capote (5)

6. Games People Play, Berne (6)

7. Churchill, Moran (8)

8. Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader (9)

9. The Crusades, Oldenbourg (7) 10. The Big Spenders, Beebe

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