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If you’re not sure where you stand on one or more of the big campaign issues, there’s still time to read up on them before you enter the voting booth. Here is a sampling of this season’s many books on political issues.

CAMPAIGNS AND CANDIDATES

SOUND & FURY: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics by Eric Alterman (HarperCollins $23.).

DIRTY POLITICS: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy by Kathleen Hall Jamieson (Oxford: $25.).

WHAT IT TAKES: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer (Random House: $30.).

PROMISES TO KEEP: A Call for a New American Revolution by Richard N. Goodwin (Times Books: $15.).

THE COMEBACK KID: The Life and Career of Bill Clinton by Charles F. Allen and Jonathan Portis (Birch Lane Press: $18.95).

MARCHING IN PLACE: The Status Quo Presidency of George Bush by Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame (Simon & Schuster: $23.).

PEROT: An Unauthorized Biography by Todd Mason (Business One Irwin: $16.95).

THE LIFE OF THE PARTIES: A History of American Political Parties by A. James Reichley (Free Press: $27.95).

THE POWER HOUSE: Robert Keith Gray and the Selling of Access and Influence in Washington by Susan B. Trento (St. Martin’s: $24.95).

ABORTION

A QUESTION OF CHOICE by Sarah Weddington, The Lawyer Who Won Roe v. Wade (Grosset/Putnam $21.95).

LIFE ITSELF: Abortion in the American Mind by Roger Rosenblatt (Random House: $20.).

ABORTION POLITICS: Mutiny in the Ranks of the Right by Michele McKeegan (Free Press: $22.95).

ENVIRONMENT

EARTH IN THE BALANCE: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Senator Al Gore (Houghton Mifflin: $22.95).

THE NATURE OF DEVELOPMENT: A Report From the Tropics on the Quest for Sustainable Economic Growth by Roger D. Stone (Knopf: $23.).

GLOBAL WARMING: Understanding the Forecast by Andrew Revkin (Abbeville Press: $29.95).

RACE RELATIONS

FACES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell (Basic Books: $20.).

TWO NATIONS: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal by Andrew Hacker (Macmillan: $22.95).

RACE: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession by Studs Terkel (The New Press: $24.95).

EVEN THE CHILDREN OF STRANGERS: Equality Under the U.S. Constitution by Donald W. Jackson (University of Kansas Press: $35.).

CHECKS AND BALANCES

ENERGY IN THE EXECUTIVE: The Case for the Strong Presidency by Terry Eastland (Free Press: $22.95).

RESTORATION: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy by George F. Will (Free Press: $19.95).

CLEANING HOUSE: America’s Campaign for Term Limits by James K. Coyne and John H. Fund (Regnery Gateway: $21.95).

GLOBAL AFFAIRS

SELLING OUR SECURITY: The Erosion of America’s Assets by Martin and Susan Tolchin (Knopf: $25.).

THE ONCE AND FUTURE SUPERPOWER by Joseph J. Romm (Morrow: $23.).

A COLD PEACE: America, Japan, Germany and the Struggle for Supremacy by Jeffrey E. Garten (Times Books/Twentieth Century Fund, $22.)

ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY

THE END OF EQUALITY by Mickey Kaus (New Republic Books/Basic Books: $25.).

THE VISIBLE POOR: Homelessness in the United States by Joel Blau (Oxford: $22.95).

THE NEW POLITICS OF POVERTY: The Nonworking Poor in America by Lawrence M. Mead (Basic Books: $25).

GOING FOR BROKE: How Robert Campeau Bankrupted the Retail Industry, Unleashed the Junk Bond Crisis, and Brought the Booming Eighties to a Crashing Halt by John Rothchild (Simon & Schuster: $22.50).

SUPREME COURT

TURNING RIGHT: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court by David G. Savage (John Wiley & Sons: $22.95).

CAPITOL GAMES: Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and the Story of A Supreme Court Nomination by Timothy M. Phelps and Helen Winternitz (Hyperion: $24.95).