The Living Presidency by Emmet Hughes examined presidents and aides
The Living Presidency surveys Nixon Johnson Eisenhower Truman Roosevelt and Kennedy through notes from White House confidants. It highlights Johnsons ego and Vietnam role, FDRs expansion of executive power, Eisenhowers restraint, and Truman decisiveness while noting Hughes critique of wartime choices and bureaucreatic growth.
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Emmet John
Hughes
White House
Sherman Adams
Clark Clifford
Bryce Harlow
Nelson Rockefeller
Clark
Eisenhower
Ike
Times
Congress
Warren Harding
Ohioan
Franklin Roosevelt
FDR
U.S
Nazi Germany
Greer
Germany
Maddox
Vietnam
Tonkin Gulf
President Johnson
Southeast Asia
Funny endearing adventures Baby Boy
Jess Gregg presents Baby Boy Clabbern, an orphan raised in a neglectful institution. The illiterate protagonist relies on others to read requests aloud as he navigates a world full of mishaps and charm. A humorous character study with warmth and mischief.
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Baby Boy
Jess Gregg
Putnam
Clabbern
Baby Boy a Picaresque Tale of a Failing Ex Con
The review portrays a young ex convict who roams civilian life after prison but comically fails at ordinary crime and repeatedly ends up back in jail. The narrator notes the protagonist’s bungling thefts and misadventures with humor, contrasting prison life and outside freedom.
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Baby Boy
Excon
Middletown Library Exhibits Services for Ohio Elder Readers
Middletown Public Library participated in the Ohio State Fair in Columbus to showcase services for seniors. The display highlighted large print books talking books and library brochures while noting staff work with nursing homes and the state library. New children’s titles were also listed in the exhibit and indicate ongoing library programs.
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Arthur M. Wolman
Middletown
Middletown Public Library
Columbus
Louise Schmitt
State Library
Ohio
Delta Gamma
Beverly Dalton
William III history refreshed by Vander Zee duo
The book by Henri and Barbara van der Zee revisits William III of England and the Netherlands. It argues his pivotal role in shaping European balance, the Glorious Revolution, and the modern constitutional monarchy, with clear documentation and readable prose.
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William and Mary
Henri and
Barbara Vander Zee
Knopf
William of
Orange
Britain
Trish
Henri
Barbara van der Zee
William III
Netherlands
England
van der Zees
William
Louis XIV
Ireland
James I
Jatin
Mary
Ronald C. Hood
Associated Press
TAPPI Monthly Meeting Sets Roth Talk on Paper Coating
Ohio TAPPI to host monthly meeting at Imperial House South Miamisburg at 6 p.m. Speaker Reinhold C. Roth of Technology Marketing Inc. will present on the Billblade Coating System for fine-coated paper grades. Billy L. Huston, vice chairman, announces Roth as the night's speaker.
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Ohio Tappi
Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry
Imperial House
Miamisburg
Billy L. Huston
Reinhold C. Roth
Technology Marketing, Inc
Proving Ground Behind Enemy Lines by Elliott Arnold
A World War II tale of survival after an ambulance plane is shot down over Albania. Two nurses a college trained Apache radio operator a co pilot and a professor turned pilot endure mountains caves and hunger as they seek safety aided by Balkan ally Sarlo. The group’s trials reveal growth and resilience.
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Elliott Arno Rbner
Air Corps
Elliott Arnold
Arnold
Proving Ground
Albania
Sarlo
Irish call girl Norma Levy to publish memoir
Norma Levy, an Irish call girl who prompted government resignations under Prime Minister Heath, plans a memoir titled I Norma Levy. The book, based on taped recollections of her love life, is to be published in October with editing for release.
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Harry Truman
John Kennedy
Nixon
Clayton Fritchey
Washington Newsman
Hughes
London
Norma Levy
Edward Heath
Guardian
Miss Levy
Air Force
Lord Lambton
Earl Jellicoe
House of Lords
Foreign Office
Mr. Whitehouse
Notable Paperback Best Sellers List Read Across Genres
A compilation of paperback titles across fiction and non fiction including The Stepford Wives Calorie and Carbohydrates The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing You re Not Listening Sheilah Levine Is Dead and Is Living In New York The Peter Prescription Fortune Made His Sword The Scarlet Ruse The Winds Of War Open Marriage Open Access Open Minded works from Levin Kraus Durham Hollender Harris Shulman Potok Crichton Berne McWhirter and others appears as a catalog of releases and authors and publishers across 20th century pop literature.
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Levin
Kraus
Durham
Craig Sheilah Levine
New York
Parent
Commissioners
Mills
Peter Prescription
Peter Fortune
Rosheart
Hollender
Harris Pauline
Tabor
Morrell
Roger Moore
Moore
MacDonald
Woulk
Best Seller List Highlights Fiction and Nonfiction
The weekly hardcover top sellers feature Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions at No 1 last Sunday, with Harvest Home by Tryon at No 4 and The Hollow Hills by Stewart listed. In nonfiction, The Joy of Sex by Comfort sits high, while The Making of the President 1972 and How to Be Your Own Best Friend appear among top titles.
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Vonnegut
Stewart
Erdman
Harvest Home
Tryon
Susana
Comfort
Newman Et al
DR. Atkins
Atkins
Marilyn
Mailer
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Coward, McCann and Geoghegan
John Pinkerman
Copley News Service
LBJ
Johnson
Truman
Eisenhower Roosevelt
Phil Thomas AP
Booky’s
Culver
Haywood
Funny Little Woman
Moses
Earth
Adams
North America
Asimov
Kingdom of the Forest
Atwood Pooh
Milne
Emrich
Marshall
Crocodile
Duvoisin
Sun
Europe
Napoleon
Hitler
Tappi
EAR
Springboro
Franklin
the Dark Horse
Knebel
Rigdon
Eddie Coyle
Higgins
Crichton
Nierenberg and
Calero Guiness
McWhirter
N. G. O'Neill
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