BOOKS

JANIS

Written and Edited by David Dalton Simon and Schuster

DIANA

(THE MAKING OF A TERRORIST) Thomas Powers Bantam Books

“Listen, man, one day I finally realized it ain’t all right and it ain’t never gonna be all right, there’s always something going wrong. ”

Janis Joplin

That’s life. Nothing profound but plenty realistic, if you can come to terms with it. The question in these two books (more specifically these two women) \is “Did they?” The picture painted in Janis and Diana points to them as hopelessly idealistic romantics gone sour.

But the important question is whether the authors accomplished what they set out to do, which appears to run along the lines of biographical eulogy. Here are two books about two women who died recently (dead people are automatically legendary) and belonged to the “counter-culture” (added ammunition).