Once a Prince of Broadway Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart By Steven Bach Knopf. 462 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Ben Yagoda Author, "Will Rogers: A Biography," "About Town: The 'New...
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Coloring Public Opinion The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America By Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki Chicago. 292 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Ben Yagoda Author, "About...
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The Trouble with England The Ice Age By Margaret Drabble Knopf. 295 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by Ben Yagoda "Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour" is not, as one might suppose, the plaint of...
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An Unworthy Hero The Last Best Hope By Peter Tauber Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 628pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Ben Yagoda ... we're really waiting for some divine hero to reveal our central theme,...
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An Eclectic Catalogue Eccentric Spaces By Robert Harbison Knopf. 192 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by Ben Yagoda "This is a book about trying to live in the world which takes art as its subject because...
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Beauty, Discipline and the Outside Shot Life on the Run By Bill Bradley Quadrangle. 288 pp. $8.95. The Joy of Sports By Michael Novak Basic. 357 pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Ben Yagoda In Crystal...
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Publicizing the Personal American Made By Shylah Boyd Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 416 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by Ben Yagoda This book is one of the new breed of "woman's novel." Neither sentimental,...
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