A Terrible Beauty

A Terrible Beautystunning perceptions of the human conditionWhen Brad Holland titled his new book Human Scandals, he gave us an important aid to understanding it--which is not as easy as understanding, say, the work of his boyhood idol, Norman Rockwell.What is a human scandal, anyway? Obviously, in one sense, it's something like Teapot Dome, or Wayne Hays's payroll, or--most famous in recent years--Watergate. Taken in that sense, Human Scandals is frequently a savagely pointed collection of poli...