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Herman Wouk: The Novelist as Social Historian, by Arnold Beichman (Transaction, 100 pp., $14.95)

It was with some surprise that I noted the dust-jacket claim that this is a “comprehensive study of the writings of Herman Wouk”—surprise, since the book including its index is only one hundred pages in length. Comprehensive?

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Herman Wouk: The Novelist as Social Historian, by Arnold Beichman (Transaction, 100 pp., $14.95)

It was with some surprise that I noted the dust-jacket claim that this is a “comprehensive study of the writings of Herman Wouk”—surprise, since the book including its index is only one hundred pages in length. Comprehensive?