Television: Nov. 8, 1968

(4 of 4)

THE PROGRESSIVE HISTORIANS, by Richard Hofstadter. A graceful and perceptive study of the three men—Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V. L. Par-rington—who have most shaped America's conception of its past.

A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY, by John le Carre. A missing embassy official, stolen secret files, and the illusion-fed machinations of the diplomatic life in Bonn are all part of the puzzle in this novel of suspense and political intrigue.

A FAN'S NOTES, by Frederick Exley. A young man, unable to participate in the American myth, uses pro-football heroes to act out his own ineluctable dreams.

STEPS, by Jerzy Kosinski. Acts of cruelty, revenge and voyeurism unfold in a series of bleak episodes that are bound together by the author's private vision of inhumanity.

THE FIRST CIRCLE, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. This classic, which will be read long after the cold war is forgotten, reveals the ways of state tyranny and the private means men find to fight it.

GEORGE ELIOT, by Gordon Haight. An admirable biography of a writer whose life was as rich in Victorian drama and morality as any of her novels.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (3 last week)

2. Preserve and Protect, Drury (2)

3. Airport, Hailey (1)

4. The Senator, Pearson (7)

5. The Hurricane Years, Hawley (4)

6. Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell (5)

7. Couples, Updike (8)

8. The First Circle, Solzhenitsyn (9)

9. True Grit, Portis (10)

10. Heaven Help Us, Tarr

NONFICTION

1. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (1)

2. The American Challenge, Servan-Schreiber (4)

3. The Beatles, Davies

4. The Rich and the Super-Rich, Lundberg (2)

5. Sixty Years on the Firing Line, Krock (3)

6. The Case Against Congress, Pearson and Anderson (9)

7. Soul on Ice, Cleaver (7)

8 Between Parent and Child, Ginott (5)

9. Iberia, Michener (6)

10. Of Diamonds and Diplomats, Baldridge