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nam War and the Cold War to their furthest and most logical possibili- , ties. This story of intrigue and sus- * pense may become a classic of our time. $
In The Fast Men, Tom McNab has done more than create a new genre: the sports western. He has, given us a real picture of our past, of’ a country still devastated in the aftermath
of the Civil War, a frontier on which the battle of Little BigHorn was being fought, where Sitting
Bull negotiated for the Sioux in . the Black Hills, and a land where as" immigrants trekked across to the West, they brought with them a complete culture ranging from theater to sporting competitions. Tom ‘ McNab brings life to this tale of speed and greed on the frontier.
In Good Hearts, his seventh novel, Reynolds-* Price makes a V whole new independent world from 7 the same man and woman in the ' midst of full lives. On the story’s first day, he says of them “.. .they’d'
come through again as what they’d ■> been most of the days of their lives •> ] - People worth watching and hoping to know.” The chance to do both' >. is offered in this book.
In the Biography section of a new ‘ ’ book, Judah P. Benjamin, The Jew- *" ish Confederate, by Eli N. Evans, . explores the profound dilemma Benjamin
faced being Jewish in the antiSemitic South of the mid- 19th century. He analyzes the complex relationship between Benjamin and > Jefferson Davis, as well as Benja-':. min’s deep lifelong affection for Da-;.
vis’ wife. Evans offers fresh insight „ into this intriguing character who, , despite his religion, was a symbol of ,n achievement in an age of bigotry.
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