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...FORGER (375 pp.)-Jay Williams -Afheneum...
...WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT (311 pp.)-John Steinbeck-Viking...
...HOUSE ON COLISEUM STREET (242 pp.)-Shirley Ann Grau-Knopf...
...BEGIN, edited by Richard L Grossman (144 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $1.95), is part of a rash of books about the New Frontier. John Kennedy had been in the White House for a little more than two weeks when a task force of 14 writers and photographers was at work recording, in words and pictures, the first 100 days of his new Administration. The contributors include men and women of such established reputation as Princeton's History Professor Eric F. (Rendezvous with Destiny) Goldman and the London Economist's Barbara Ward, but their product is a weird paste...
...KENNEDY CIRCLE, edited by Lester Tanzer (315 pp.; Robert B. Luce, Inc.; $4.95); THE KENNEDY GOVERNMENT, by Stan Opotowsky (208 pp.; Dutton; $3.95), are two more quickie efforts on the same subject. Both are collections of sketches of the strong men in the Kennedy Government, and as with most sketchbooks, their quality varies. The Kennedy Circle is the most variable since it was gathered from the blacksheets of 14 top Washington correspondents. Its best feature is its occasional irreverence: New York Times's Elie Abel makes Defense Secretary Robert McNamara a character of almost comic naiveté when...