Television: Aug. 8, 1969

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THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER, by Gay Talese. A former New York Times staffer takes his readers far behind the bylines for a gossipy analysis of the workings and power struggles within the nation's most influential newspaper.

THE YEAR OF THE YOUNG REBELS, by Stephen Spender. Mingling on the barricades with American and European student radicals, the Old Left poet and veteran of Spanish Civil War politics reports humanely on New Left ideals and spirit.

THE RUINED MAP, by Kobo Abe. In this psychological whodunit by one of Japan's best novelists (The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), a detective turns a search for a missing husband into a metaphysical quest for his own identity.

ADA, by Vladimir Nabokov. A long, lyric fairy tale about time, memory and the 83-year-long love affair of a half sister and half brother by the finest living writer of English fiction.

WHAT I'M GOING TO DO, I THINK, by L. Woiwode. A young couple expecting a baby embark on a honeymoon in the Michigan woods and discover terror in paradise. A remarkable first novel.

THE ECONOMY OF CITIES, by Jane Jacobs.

With a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers.

TIME OUT OF HAND: REVOLUTION AND REACTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, by Robert Shaplen. Using flashbacks into history and probes into the future, The New Yorker's veteran correspondent in Asia views present dangers there with well-measured judgment.

CRAZY OVER HORSES, by Sam Toperoff. "Horses, horses, horses, crazy over horses," the old song goes. Not quite as repetitive but equally obsessed, the zealous author has transformed a lifelong weakness for the ponies into an oddly winning novel-memoir.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Love Machine, Susann (1 last week)

2. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (2)

3. The Godfather, Puzo (3)

4. Ada, Nabokov (4)

5. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton (5)

6. The Pretenders, Davis (6)

7. Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut (7)

8. The Goodbye Look, Macdonald (8)

9. What I'm Going to Do, I Think, Woiwode (10)

10. Except for Me and Thee, West (9)

NONFICTION

1. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (1)

2. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (2)

3. The Making of the President'68, White (6)

4. An Unfinished Woman, Hellman (5)

5. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (7)

6. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (3)

7. Jennie, Martin (4)

8. The 900 Days, Salisbury (10)

9. Norma Jean, Guiles (8)

10. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig