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How do I lie to thee? Let me eount the ways... In The Book on Bush (Viking), Eric Alterman and Mark Green expose the astounding manner in which “the most messianic, radical, special-interest and dissembling president in modern times” persists in (mis)leading America. Now that Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has revisited Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876 (Knopf), will he please explain his own role in the disputed election of 2000. Nancy (Morrow), by longtime Reagan confidant Michael K. Deaver, is an “intimate portrait” of First Lady Dearest. Investigative reporter Alex Prud’homme'sThe Cell Game (HarperBusiness) turns the ImClone scandal into a page-turner. Former presidential joke writer Mark Katz relives eight glorious years of proud service in Clinton & Me (Miramax). Edward Ball trolls the Peninsula of Lies (Simon & Schuster) in Charleston, South Carolina, for the taboobreaking story of a mysterious sex-changed socialite.

Also this month: Farah Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran's widow, recalls An Enduring Love (Miramax). Maureen O'Hara, the redheaded star of such classic films as Miracle on 84th Street, declares T/.v Herself (Simon & Schuster). India Hicks and David Flint Wood live the dream of chucking it all for paradise in Island Life (Stewart, Tabori & Chang). Kate Christensen further establishes her firm grasp on Loser Lit with The Epicure’s Lament (Doubleday), in which a bitter, upper-crusty, and out-topasture gigolo struggles valiantly to smoke himself to death. Luisita Lopez Torregrosa taps deep into The Noise of Infinite Longing (Rayo) felt by generations of her Puerto Rican family. Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh'sFilm Posters of the 80s (Trafalgar Square) captures America’s taste for escapist romantic comedies. In Work and Other Sins (Penguin), Charlie LeDuff acquaints us with New Yorkers such as the men who change the lightbulbs atop the Empire State Building. The American Dream goes up in flames in Mitch Epstein's memoir, Family Business (Steidl). Barry Silesky'sJohn Gardner: Literary Outlaw (Algonquin) remembers one of America’s most opinionated and famously infuriating writers. Kyle Smith,People magazine’s book-and-musicreview editor, makes his fiction debut with (drumroll, please) Love Monkey (Morrow). Catherine Clinton tracks the life of Harriet Tubman (Little, Brown), the most celebrated black woman to work as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. The once diabolically successful music mogul Walter Yetnikoff (with David Ritz on keyboard) lets it bleed in Howling at the Moon (Broadway). In The Fall of the Berlin Wall (Wiley), William F. Buckley Jr. decodes the Cold War endgame. The heroine of Kate Wenner’sDancing with Einstein (Scribner) is obsessed with nuclear war. In Melissa Pritchard's ravishing Late Bloomer (Doubleday), a strapped divorcee with a teenage daughter stumbles into ghostwriting Native American romance novels, only to find her life imitating art. Suzanne Somers'sThe Sexy Years (Crown) is a heraldic cry against the idea that life after 50 is a libidinous wasteland. Former editor of Ladies' Home JournalMyrna Blyth spills the beans on the way her fellow Spin Sisters (St. Martin’s) at the gal mags sell unhappiness with a sugarcoating of liberalism. For People in Vogue (Trafalgar Square), Robin Derrick raided the magazine’s British archives for portraits by Beaton, Steichen, Penn, and others. Riotous NPR commentator Hollis Gillespie, alias Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch (ReganBooks), shares ribcrackingly funny tales of life on the road with her bomb-building mom and trailer-salesman dad. The world of natural science entwines with fantasy and technology in the astonishing paintings of Alexis Rockman (Monacelli). Don’t know who the president of Pakistan is? Don’t worry, Mr. President, they do! James Mann unclosets the president’s intriguing war Cabinet— from Condi to Rummy—in The Rise of the Vulcans (Viking).

Mr. Pinocchio, your table is ready.