Books
November, 1977
When a publisher describes a book as an epic, we begin to get nervous. Is he talking about the creative energy expended in writing it, the scope of the work itself (a hero ventures out to save a nation) or the energy required to read it? Peter Tauber's The Last Best Hope (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) falls solidly into categories one and three but misses category two. It's a sweeping account of the Sixties (for sweeping, read the collection of debris). There's a little bit of everything in this bo...
