A FEW weeks ago we offered you our Election Year Argument Settler (TIME, July 16), the little red disk which provides the short answers to more than 800 political questions. Since then, letters asking for the Argument Settler have been coming in at the rate of 2,000 to 3,000 a day. Such widespread interest leads us to believe that you would also like to have a copy of our convention booklet, Here We Go Again!, which is just now coming off the presses.

"A political party's national convention is like the adult life of a May fly --brief, spectacular and essential to the preservation of the species," the booklet begins. Describing this peculiarly American phenomenon, the booklet reviews the histories of the two major parties, showing with a graphic flow chart how they evolved over the years. It also tells about convention ground rules, the major issues, how platforms are hammered together, and, in some footnotes to U.S. political history, recalls such all-but-forgotten presidential candidates as New York's Democratic Governor Horatio Seymour, who became known in 1868 as "The Great Decliner." Interspersed are ballot score cards, a map showing how the states voted in 1952, and pictures of the potential kingmakers.

To get a free copy of Here We Go Again!, write to:

TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine

Box 179 New York 46, New York

I think you will find the booklet informative in itself, and a useful supplement to the reports of TIME'S task force of 34 reporters and editors who will be covering the Democrats at Chicago and the Republicans at San Francisco.

Cordially yours,

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