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DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE FIRST FEDERAL CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MARCH 4. 1789‐MARCH 3, 1791. Volume I: SENATE LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL. Edited by Linda Grant De Pauw, Charlene Bangs Bickford, and Lavonne Marlene Siegal. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972; pp. xxvi+774. $22.50.

CULTURE AND COMMITMENT 1929–1945. Edited by Warren Susman. New York: George Braziller, 1973; pp. xii+372. $7.50; paper $3.95.

THE ENDURING SOUTH: SUBCULTURAL PERSISTENCE IN MASS SOCIETY. By John Shelton Reed. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, 1972; pp. v+135. $8.50.

RADICAL VISIONS AND AMERICAN DREAMS: CULTURE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT IN THE DEPRESSION YEARS. By Richard H. Pells. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973; pp. xv+424. $12.50.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON. By Warren Staebler, New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1973; pp. 268. $5.95.

THE EARLY LECTURES OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON: Vol. III, 1828–1842. Edited by Robert E. Spiller and Wallace E. Williams, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1972; pp. xxiv+590. $20.00.

RIGHT FROM THE START: A CHRONICLE OF THE McGOVERN CAMPAIGN. By Gary Warren Hart. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1973, pp. x+334. $7.95.

THE NEW POPULISM. By Fred R. Harris. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973; pp. x+209. $6.95.

REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN SPEECHES: 1972–1973. Edited by Waldo W. Braden. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1973; pp. 208. $4.50.

GREAT DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY. Edited by Wayne Moquin with Charles Van Doren. Afterword by Robert Powless. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973; pp. xvi+416. $13.50; paper $4.95.

CHECKMATE IN CLEVELAND: THE RHETORIC OF CONFRONTATION DURING THE STOKES YEARS. By Estelle Zannes, assisted by Mary Jean Thomas. Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University. 1972; pp. xv+271. $5.95.

UNLEARNING THE LIE: SEXISM IN SCHOOL. By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison. New York: Liveright, 1973; pp. xiii+176. $6.95.

THE SUBVERSION OF WOMEN AS PRACTICED BY CHURCHES, WITCH‐HUNTERS, AND OTHER SEXISTS. By Nancy Van Vuuren. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1973; pp. 190. $5.95.

NAZIS AND WORKERS: NATIONAL SOCIALIST APPEALS TO GERMAN LABOR, 1919–1933. By Max H. Kele. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972; pp. xi+243. $9.50.

THE THEATRE OF POLITICS. By Ferdinand Mount; Introduction by Max Lerner. New York: Schocken Books, 1973; pp. xiii+276. $7.95.

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A READER. Edited by Larry A. Samovar and Richard E. Porter (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1972) pp. 344. Paper $5.50.

SHAW—“THE CHUCKER OUT”: A BIOGRAPHICAL EXPOSITION AND CRITIQUE. By Allan Chappelow. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1972; pp. xx+558. $15.00.

BERNARD SHAW, PLAYWRIGHT: ASPECTS OF SHAVIAN DRAMA. By Bernard F. Dukore. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1973; pp. viii+311. $13.00.

APPROACHES TO POETICS. Edited and with Foreword by Seymour Chatman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973; pp. x+184. $7.50.

AMERICAN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP: AN ANNUAL/1971. Edited by J. Albert Robbins. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1973; pp. xiv+418. $8.75.

ADVANCES IN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH. Edited by C. David Mortensen and Kenneth K. Sereno. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973; pp. ix+425. Paper $9.95.

ENCOUNTER GROUPS: FIRST FACTS. By Morton A. Lieberman, Irvin D. Yalom, and Matthew B. Miles. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1973; pp. xi+495. $15.00.

NORMAL ASPECTS OF SPEECH, HEARING, AND LANGUAGE. Edited by Fred D. Minifie, Thomas J. Hixon, and Frederick Williams. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1973; pp. xii+509. $12.95.

APHASIA: SELECTED READINGS. Edited by Martha Taylor Sarno. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1972; pp. v+491. $14.95.

LANGUAGE IN THE INNER CITY: STUDIES IN THE BLACK ENGLISH VERNACULAR. By William Labov. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973; pp. xxiv+412. Paper $6.95.

LANGUAGE, SOCIETY, AND EDUCATION: A PROFILE OF BLACK ENGLISH. Edited by Johanna S. DeStefano. Worthington, Ohio: Charles A. Jones Publishing Company, 1973; pp. ix+236. $11.95.

TRANSRACIAL COMMUNICATION. By Arthur L. Smith. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1973; pp. vii+152. $6.95; paper $3.50.

CHILDREN'S SPEECH: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT. By Robert Hopper and Rita C. Naremore. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1973; pp. x+140. Paper $2.95.

MEN, MESSAGES, AND MEDIA; A LOOK AT HUMAN COMMUNICATION. By Wilbur Schramm. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973; pp. 341. Paper $3.95.

THE MAKING OF A TELEVISION SERIES: A CASE STUDY IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE. By Philip Elliott. New York: Hastings House, 1973 pp. x+180. $6.95.