Coping with Goodness

We recently have been subject to an increase of disaster books on World War II. Not accidentally, I am afraid, the Holocaust shelves now appearing in bookstores are often right next to those offering popular sex guides, books on astrology, exhortations to increased self-assertion. History books on the war years, kept separate, attract far fewer browsers. Unflattering mirror that they are, our bookstores show us not only how powerful but how acceptable, as well as profitable, is our craving fo...