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Wouk encapsulated middle-class Jewish smugness from a particularly conformist angle. Even though "The Caine Mutiny" is a great movie, the lesson is that the paranoid captain deserved better than to be challenged by junior officers trying to keep him from wrecking his ship. No wonder Wouk


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/herman-wouk-pulitzer-prize-winning-master-of-sweeping-historical-fiction-dies-a-103/2019/05/17/3eefd034-78be-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html

For an appraisal from the left:

The First Neoconservative: Herman Wouk, the Americanization of the Holocaust, and the Rise of Neoconservatism

https://newpol.org/issue_post/first-neoconservative-herman-wouk-americanization-holocaust-and-rise-neoconservatism/
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