On my walks around central Zagreb, I often stop in front of bookstore windows.  An old habit, I guess, for I now buy almost all of my books via Amazon.  Anyhow, two days in the Croatian capital have been enough for me to notice several new books about Tito.  All are prominently displayed.  Judging by their titles and subtitles, the bulk of these books is far from complimentary.  Nonetheless, the growing interest in the prominent Yugoslav leader of Croatian origin is itself of interest.  Loath of even browsing through the new crop of books, I can guess that it signals the birth of a new nostalgia.  Independence is sweet, but it comes at the cost of, well, irrelevance in world affairs.  The nostalgia thus cannot but grow in the years to come.