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RECENT BOOKS          KAISER

English language. His unpublished novel The Primary Colors is about his childhood in Kansas City, Mo.)

Chaneles, Sol. THE OPEN PRISON: SAVINGS THEIR LIVES AND OUR MONEY. New York: Dial Press, $6.95. (A strong book on much-needed, overdue prison reform which will rehabilitate the prisoners and also save money.)

Chisholm, Shirley. THE GOOD FIGHT.  New York: Harper & Row. 206 pages. $6.95. (A book about Congresswoman Chisholm's campaign as the first Black and the first woman to run for president of the U.S. Also her political analysis of the state of the country now. Her autobiography is Unbought and Unbossed, 1970. Shirley Chisholm: A Biography [1970] by Susan Brownmiller is for young people.)

Courlander, Harold. TALES OF YORUBA GODS AND HEROES. Decorations by Larry Lurin. New York: Crown Publishers. $6.95.

Crane, Louise. MS.  AFRICA: PROFILES OF MODERN AFRICAN WOMEN. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. 159 pages. $4.95. (Some of the 12 African women profiled in this book for young people are Efua Sutherland, Angie Brooks, Margaret Kenyatta, Winnie Mandela and Miriam Makeba.)

Cruz, Victor Hernandez. MAINLAND. New York: Random House: $5.95 (cloth); $1.95 (paper). (A second book of poems by a young Black Puerto Rican poet. His earlier book was Snaps published in 1969.)

Dawley, David. A NATION OF LORDS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE VICE LORDS. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday. 200 pages. $1.95 (paper). (A book about the evolution of the black Vice Lords of Chicago's West Side from street fighting to street corporation, an organizational form of the emerging nation of black, extremely deprived ghetto youth.)

Day, Beth. SEXUAL LIFE BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES. Introduction by Margaret Mead. New York: World Publishing Co. 353 pages. $8.95. (Has a 76-page bibliography.)

Dean, John. THE MAKING OF A BLACK MAYOR: A STUDY OF CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION, STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES IN PRICHARD, ALABAMA. Joint Center for Political Studies, 1426 H St., N.W., Suite 926. Washington, D.C. 20005. viii, 129 pages. $2.50 (paper). (A book about Algernon [Jay] Cooper, Jr.'s successful campaign to become the first black mayor of Prichard, Ala., written by John Dean, his black campaign manager. The Joint Center, set up by Howard University and MARC to service Black elected officials, has occasional papers, political pamphlets, reprints and directories mostly on government and black politics for sale.)

Du Bois, W.E.B. THE EDUCATION OF BLACK PEOPLE: TEN CRITIQUES, 1906-1960. Edited by Herbert Aptheker. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press  207 pages. $10.00. (This is the first of 10 volumes to be published over the next several years of the massive Du Bois papers acquired by the University of Massachusetts in June 1973 from Mrs. Shirley Graham Du Bois for $150,000 [New York Times, June 5, 1973, p. 43]. Vol. I of the selected correspondence of Du Bois, edited by Herbert Aptheker, Ernest Kaiser and Sidney Kaplan, will be published in the fall of 1973. Aptheker is also editing the 40-volume collected works of Du Bois to be published by

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