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THE ARABISTS: The Romance of an American Elite. By Robert D. Kaplan. (Free Press, $24.95.) A thoughtful, balanced view of the inbred State Department specialists whose fluffs (like their dealings with Saddam Hussein) have received more attention than their successes (like the exodus of the Ethiopian Jews).

AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War. By Michael R. Beschloss and Strobe Talbott. (Little, Brown, $24.95.) A useful and readable account of events of great magnitude by two keen observers who enjoyed unusual access.

THE BALTIC REVOLUTION: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence. By Anatol Lieven. (Yale University, $29.95.) A correspondent for The Times of London investigates the social and economic consequences of the Baltic independence movements.

BETRAYAL: The Untold Story of the Kurt Waldheim Investigation and Cover-Up. By Eli M. Rosenbaum with William Hoffer. (St. Martin's, $25.95.) One of the deputy directors in the Justice Department's office for prosecuting Nazi war criminals contends that the exposure of Mr. Waldheim's Nazi past was stalled by, of all people, the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.

THE BIRTH OF FREEDOM: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe. By Andrew Nagorski. (Simon & Schuster, $23.) A lively, vivid work of journalism about life in post-Communist Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland, where, Mr. Nagorski believes, the idea of a middle way between capitalism and socialism has completely vanished.

BOILING POINT: Republicans, Democrats, and the Decline of Middle-Class Prosperity. By Kevin Phillips. (Random House, $23.) A thorough and acerbic analysis of how the American middle class, over the last 20 years, has been losing its cash and its access to services, education, advancement and baseball tickets.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AND THE COMMON GOOD. By Anthony S. Bryk, Valerie E. Lee and Peter B. Holland. (Harvard University, $37.50.) This rare mix of social history, number crunching and case study is meant to disabuse us of the idea that all Catholic schools are suburban, affluent, stuffy and white.

CONDUCT UNBECOMING: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military, Vietnam to the Persian Gulf. By Randy Shilts. (St. Martin's, $27.95.) A landmark history that explores the ferocity and tenacity of those who have carried out -- with physical and psychological intimidation -- the purges against lesbians and gay men in the military.

CRUELTY AND SILENCE: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World. By Kanan Makiya. (Norton, $22.95.) The cruelty is that of the Saddam Hussein regime in the author's native Iraq; the silence, that of the Arab intellectuals who condone or assist it.

CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM. By Edward W. Said. (Knopf, $25.) Mr. Said argues for the centrality of imperialism to European high culture, especially when it hides itself in the periphery.

DEAD MAN WALKING: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. By Helen Prejean. (Random House, $21.) Governments should stop killing people, says a nun who has often seen death row up close.

THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND THE END OF THE MODERN AGE. By John Lukacs. (Ticknor & Fields, $21.95.) For one thing, Mr. Lukacs says, it was a short century, beginning in 1914 and ending with the fall of Communism. Now, he argues provocatively, the world will be ruled by intransigent nationalism.

AN EVIL CRADLING. By Brian Keenan. (Viking, $22.50.) The Irish poet is omnipresent in Mr. Keenan's beautiful and adroit memoir of the four and a half years he was held hostage in Beirut.

THE EXILE: Cuba in the Heart of Miami. By David Rieff. (Simon & Schuster, $21.) Drawing on conversations with Cubans of all stripes living in Miami, Mr. Rieff concludes that this diaspora is losing its sense of nostalgia for the homeland.

EXIT INTO HISTORY: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe. By Eva Hoffman. (Viking, $23.) Seeking out the ordinary, Ms. Hoffman, a Polish-born writer with a touch of American objectivity, makes a tour of Mitteleuropa, returning with subtle insights about a world in transition.

THE FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency. By Ronald Kessler. (Pocket Books, $22.) Not to be overtaken by recent events, this impressive study of the modern F.B.I. by an investigative reporter runs all the way up to William S. Sessions's dismissal in July.

THE GULF CONFLICT 1990-1991: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order. By Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh. (Princeton University, $29.95.) The fullest history yet of George Bush's famous victory, by two accomplished military scholars.

HATE ON TRIAL: The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi. By Morris Dees and Steve Fiffer. (Villard, $21.) Mr. Dees, the trial lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, tells, with great moral power, how he successfully sued Tom Metzger, a white supremacist, for inciting the murder of an Ethiopian student in Oregon.

HEROES OF MY TIME. By Harrison E. Salisbury. (Walker, $19.95.) With a decidedly earthbound definition of heroism, Salisbury, a former correspondent and editor for The New York Times who died this year at the age of 84, recounts his remarkable meetings with the likes of Nikita Khrushchev, Zhou Enlai and Malcolm X.
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