The Last Convertible

526 pp. By the author of Once an Eagle. "Sometimes there is a golden novel that recaptures a golden time, never to be again: the lost promise of an entire generation. For Americans who came of age in the 1940s -- and for millions more who would like to have been -- that novel will be The Last Convertible. It celebrates the high pride of those innocent years when, top down, racing under the stars or dancing to the big bands of Goodman or Dorsey, that most romantic and exuberant generation faced the dark days of war."