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You Don’t Know Jack
September 30, 2010 10:02 AMPoisoning The Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington Scandal Culture | By Mark Feldstein | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 480 pages, $30 Jack Anderson had a scoop. An attorney for one of Richard Nixon’s fundraisers... Continue reading
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Rocket Man
October 6, 2009 08:00 AMHumanity is now some sixty years into the nuclear age and has, somehow, yet to extinguish itself. How that somehow came to be is the question that drives Neil Sheehan’s new book, A Fiery Peace in a Cold War:... Continue reading
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Taming the Bear
March 4, 2009 09:08 AMThe Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War By James Mann | Viking | 416 pages, $27.95 Depending on your political perspective, Ronald Reagan either had zip to do with the collapse of the... Continue reading
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