Nearing ninety, Herman Wouk is still churning them out. Well, not exactly. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Caine Mutiny, who went onto write such compulsively readable, middlebrow classics as Marjorie Morningstar, Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, apparently was doing his millennial homework during the ten years it took come up with his latest, A Hole in Texas. A brainy look at the intersection of politics, physics, and the mass media, it shows that the old man can still get around on the fastball.
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