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While Freudians beat a retreat with their cigars between their legs, Jung—the father of analytic psychology and master of the collective unconscious—has seen his popularity rise. In Jung (Little, Brown), Deirdre Bair analyzes the man, shooting down accusations that he was an anti-Semite, and probing a controversial affair he had with a patient.

Also this month: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, score a knockout for the G. O.A. T. (Taschen), a roundup of photographs and essays on Muhammad Ali, the greatest of all time, as well as the prettiest, and a poet to boot. Through Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good (Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday), along with terrific instincts, imagination, and common sense, Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner have, shockingly, managed to make the world a better place, one salad dressing at a time. Jon Meacham paints a powerful portrait of the enormous friendship between World War II allies Roosevelt and Churchill in Franklin and Winston (Random House). Janine di Giovanni's memoir of the Balkan War, Madness Visible (Knopf), exposes the hellish reality of children dying from lack of medicine, women trapped in paramilitary rape camps, and soldiers numbed by the atrocities they witnessed and by those they committed. Thankfully, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is Living to Tell the Tale (Knopf) and writing the first act—from childhood to the start of his career, to his marriage. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sets her splendid debut novel, Purple Hibiscus (Algonquin), against the backdrop of a military coup in Nigeria, where a young girl escapes the tyranny of her father only to fall in love with a charismatic priest. In Great Fortune (Viking), Daniel Olcrent chronicles the life and times of one of New York City's greatest architectural icons, Rockefeller Center. Suzanne Slesin salutes the Over the Top (Pointed Leaf) flamboyant style of the late, great fashion-anddesign goddess Helena Rubinstein. From 1838 to 1842, the U.S. Exploring Expedition discovered Antarctica and unforeseen zoological treasures, but it also was plagued by tragedy, near mutiny, and disaster; Nathaniel Philbrick recalls this scandalous chapter in American maritime history in Sea of Glory (Viking). Kathleen Sharp relives the days when the Cfer-Hollywood power couple Edie and Lew Wasserman, Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood (Carroll & Graf), ruled their entertainment empire with an iron fist in a velvet glove. Julian Schnabel'sJulian Schnabel (Abrams) is a pictorial diary of his creative journey from the smashing of plates to the Big Girl series. Catch Joel Tudor and Michael Halsband'sSurf Book and you'll be sitting on top of the world. Gossipy, glittery, and nostalgic for the good old days, James McCourt'sQueer Street (Norton) cruises gay culture in the last part of the 20th century, from the days of Stonewall to the AJDS epidemic to the co-optation of queer culture by the straight world. In Young Bob (Powerhouse), John Cohen captures a fresh-in-N.Y.C. Dylan on the cusp of fame. In When I Was Cool (HarperCollins), controversial journalist (and V.F. contributor) Sam Kashner wistfully recalls his time at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. From the days of George Cukor's A Star Is Born to John Landis's An American Werewolf in London, photojournalist Bob Willoughby has infiltrated the closed sets of Hollywood's finest directors, also known as The Star Makers (Merrell). Bill Manville serves up 88 different ways to beat booze and drugs in Cool, Hip & Sober (Forge). Paul Auster turns a hand to ghost-story writing in Oracle Night (Henry Holt). Yes, Virginia, there is fine food East of Paris (Ecco)—top chef David Bouley's savory homage to the culture and cuisine of Austria. Rebecca Bloom's newest novel gets Tangled Up in Daydreams (Morrow). Pick up the check for The New York Restaurant Cookbook (Rizzoli), by Florence Fabricant, and create signature dishes from such mainstays as Nobu and Cafe des Artistes. Vintage-postcard collector John A. Jakle'sPostcards of the Night (Museum of New Mexico Press) illuminates the nocturnal personality of 80 cities in the early 20th century. And, finally, Hawaiians do it, Pygmies do it, even educated Belgiques do it— let's do it, let's yodel! Bart Plantenga cracks the secret history of yodeling wide open with Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo (Routledge). Yodel-ay-ee-oooo!