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Saturday, December 7, 1968
BooK GUIDE
List suits art of
(Continued from Page 15)
ucational theorizing, biography,
history, and the rest. But two,
books that fit into none of these
classes deserve top billing.
First is James Watson's highly
publicized, slightly scandalized re-
collection of the discovery of DNA,;
The Double Helix (Atheneum,
$5.95). Though most reviewers
have given it partial censure for
its lack of grace and style, nothing
could be more irrelevant here:
The Double Helix-gossipy, giggly,
and shameless-is science with its{
pants pulled down. It's nice (and,4
in Watson's telling, very exciting)
to learn that Nobel winners are as
ladder-climbing as the J. Pierre-
pont Finches of big business.
The other "best surprise" of
non-fiction in 1968 earns its rec-
ognition mostly for being the best
of the crop of books on its sub-
ject. The work is The Beatles
Book (Cowles, $5.95), and it is a
collection of widely-ranging, all-
inclusive essays edited by Edward
E. Davis on the same topic that
has spawned a flock of p.r. bio-
graphies and shallow profiles.
William Buckley, Timothy Leary,
music critic Ned Rorem are in-
cluded in the roster of writers,
rdgWarmth and comfort
from the ground up...
Last among the top non-fiction
is a strange selection, a yearly
publication that this year reflect- STA DIU M B O0TS
ed the emerging new style of the
whole art of exposition-Best Ma-
gazine Articles, 1968 (Crown,
$5.95), edited by Gerald Walker.
David Halberstam and Jimmy
Breslin offer the best pieces -
along with Renata Adler, whose
memorable visit to the national
New Politics Convention in Chica-
go last year is included. Written in
her pre-movie reviewer days with
make a reader who is familiar with
the scuffle of politics on the left
hate and love Miss Adler as she
tries to keep herself out of the
proceedings but only emerges as
a terrified she-bitch who doesn't
dare let anyone know of her hang-1
ups. The other articles are good,
too, and their shared glory is the
recent swing to personal journa-
lism that has turned writers into
people, too.
That about wraps it up. There
are countless other books that
could be mentioned, but aren't be-
cause of lack of space, my failure Ignore the cold and dampness in a pair
to familiarize myself with them,
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