We Were Dreamers

Jim Lehrer, James Lehrer. Atheneum Books, $6.95 (216pp) ISBN 978-0-689-70710-0

Coanchor of the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, the author recounts the doomed attempt by his family to found a bus line in Kansas in the late 1940s. PW wrote: ""The material is slim and repetitious, and Lehrer lacks the tragicomic touch to give it added dimension.'' (September)

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