In Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend (Simon & Schuster, 325 pp.) New Yorker writer Susan Orlean tells the larger-than-life story behind canine movie star Rin Tin Tin. Monitor reviewer Heller McAlpin calls Orlean鈥檚 book 鈥渁n eloquent, powerful inquiry into 鈥榟ow we create heroes and what we want from them,鈥 and about what endures in our culture.鈥 (CSMonitor.com, 9/27/11)