INSIDE LATIN AMERICAJohn Gunfher Harper ($3.50).
There are plenty of good books on Latin America* in the bookstores, but this is the one that everybody is going to read. Last week its advance sales (including Book-of-the-Month Club orders) reached 225,000 copies.
There are two good reasons why: 1) John Gunther has enormous prestige as a news coverer of continents (Inside Europe; Inside Asia); 2) his amassing of colorful detail is as easy to take as gossip.
The worst and best that can be said of Inside Latin America is that it is typical...
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