Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man

Gordon F. Sander. Plume Books, $11.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-452-27038-1

This is a fine biography of The Twilight Zone 's writer, producer and host, Rod Serling, but it is overly generous in assessing his contribution to popular culture. (Jan.)

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