Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NOTES by Frederick Exley. 385 pages. Harper...
...feels that the national political conventions have "encouraged some of his very best writing." This year's conventions are no exception - they may indeed have encouraged his best. With a minimum of the compulsive self-analysis that has characterized his other work, he re-creates in the November Harper's the events, personalities and mood of Miami Beach and Chicago. His reporting is, as always, intensely personal as it probes the darker, unexplored passageways of American political life. But Mailer - Eastern Seaboard exotic, alienated artist, New York practitioner of improvisational cinema - is strangely in touch with heartland America...
MAKING GOOD AGAIN by Lionel Davidson. 308 pages. Harper...
...president of Plantation Records, Shelby Singleton, 36, has followed up the single release with an album containing songs about some of the characters in P.T.A., hopes eventually to produce a movie about Harper Valley. Meanwhile, Texas-born Jeannie Riley, 22, a former $50-a-week secretary on Nashville's Music Row commands prime-time television bookings, $15,000-per-night personal appearances, and record royalties that may amount to $150,000 by year's end. So although she is still in the first grade in the vocal department, she has graduated with honors in tax brackets. The benefits...
...ESSENCE OF SECURITY by Robert S. McNamara. 176 pages. Harper...