HERBERT H. LEHMAN AND HIS ERA

Mr. Nevins begins his story with that of Lehman's father and uncles who built their fortunes in the antebellum South, and he carries it across more than a century of finance and politics to the defeat of De Sapio and Tammany Hall in New York City's 1961 elections. It is the story of a good man who spent a long life working very hard for things in which he really believed. Such a story is always worth our while.