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 Vol. 016 Issue 009 (September 1 1983)
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
Heat, record heat, ravaged our nation's lawns, corn fields, and pig farms this July, yet the tenor of public debate remained serene, even dreamlike. Alan Cranston went to his...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE
The Lady is a Tramp
I hope The American Spectator is not trying to thin the ranks of its well-earned subscribers and lose its reputation as one of the last journals of sanity. How...
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Editorials / Black Cats / Mitred Moonshine
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDIT0RIALS
BLACK CATS
Last month that black cat the Washington press corps had perceived arched atop a'pile of Jimmy Carter's briefing papers slipped back toward oblivion, but that did not mean...
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Capitol Ideas / The Morality Charade
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS
THE MORALITY CHARADE
The disproportionate attentiont given to the Reagan Administration's acquisition of Jimmy Carter's 1980 debate papers has shown us once again American institutions...
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The Passion of Seymour Hersh
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Grenier, Richard
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Richard Grenier
THE PASSION OF SEYMOUR HERSH,
Burned by the ardors of ideology.
Seymour Hersh has come to us from the sun, pure in heart and mind, a seeker after Truth, the sacred, the indivisible....
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Tribalism and Socialism in Zimbabwe
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Cosgrave, Patrick
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Patrick Cosgrave
TRIBALISM AND SOCIALISM IN ZIMBABWE
Why Robert Mugabe wants Big Government.
It is a truism to say that the conflicts of tribalism are at the heart of the post-imperial degeneration...
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The Children of Sunset Boulevard
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Benjamin J. Stein
THE CHILDREN OF SUNSET BOULEVARD
Who's watching the kids?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Lunch last week at the commissary at MGM with W., a woman television producer who...
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Prague Winter
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Škvoreclý, Josef
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Josef Skvorecky
PRAGUE WINTER
Fifteen years after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, a reassessment.
Suppose an aircraft designer talks the Boeing Company into financing an airplane which,...
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Presswatch/Anything Goes
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Barnes, Fred
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PRESSWATCH
ANYTHING GOES
Uemocrats called a press conference in mid-July to announce the formation of a new National Caucus that would promote a single, coherent alternative to President Reagan's...
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The Public Policy/Striking the Public
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Dickman, Howard
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THE PUBLIC POLICY
STRIKING THE PUBLIC
the dawn of the industrial era, the influential classical economist John Ramsay McCulloch demanded a reform of English law to enable wage earners collectively...
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The Nation's Pulse/The Art of History
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McClay, Wilfred M.
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THE NATION'S PULSE
THE ART OF HISTORY
In the beginning, history-writing was story-telling. Yet when Homer sang of Achaeans and Trojans battling on the plains of Ilium, or when the Old Testament...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Reich's Friendly Fascism
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Krauss, Melvyn B.
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS
REICH'S FRIENDLY FASCISM
When Ronald Reagan claimed that "Fascism was really the basis of the New Deal," the Democrats thought it preposterous. At the 1980 Democratic...
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European Document/West of the Wall
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McGurn, William
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EUROPEAN DOCUMENT
WEST OF THE WALL
Berlin, the guidebooks all agree, does not get very hot, but at this conference for German and American journalists the 90-degree heat wave is the major source of...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Big Stash's
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Mysak, Joe
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES
BIG STASH'S
Gus: Don't go about it the wrong way. Don't use the Democrats' approach. Don't throw money at it.
Tom: Forget it. What's the use? She 'II never go out...
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On History and Other Essays
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Oakeshott, Michael
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BOOK REVIEWSON
HISTORY AND OTHER ESSAYS
Michael Oakeshott / Barnes & Noble Books / $25.75
Kenneth Minogue
Michael Oakeshott's new collection of essays comes out fifty years after his first work,...
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Leaders
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Nixon, Richard
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LEADERS
Richard Nixon / Warner Books / $17.50
Karl O'Lessker
What are Presidents to do after they leave office? In this century, at least, they have written books. Theodore Roosevelt, a skilled and...
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The HomosexualNetwork
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Rueda, Enrique T.
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THE HOMOSEXUAL NETWORK: PRIVATE LIVES AND PUBLIC POLICY
Enrique T. Rueda/The Devin-Adair Co. / $24.95; $13.95 pbk.
ment. In respect to this matter I learned more than I would have liked. I also...
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U.S.S.R. in Crisis
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Goldman, Marshall I.
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U.S.S.R. IN CRISIS: THE FAILURE OF AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM
Marshall I. Goldman/ W.W. Norton/$15.00
Walter D. Connor
Everyone who's been there remembers his encounters with the Soviet economy. Once, in a...
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The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine
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Cockburn, Andrew
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THE THREAT: INSIDE THE SOVIET MILITARY MACHINE
Andrew Cockburn / Random House / $16.95
Francis Fukuyama
All thoughtful analysts of the Soviet military are well aware that the Soviet threat is at...
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A General's Life
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Bradley, Omar N.; Blair, Clay
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A GENERAL'S LIFE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY GENERAL OF THE ARMY OMAR N. BRADLEY
Omar N. Bradley and Glay Blair/ Simon and Schuster/ $19.95
Eliot A. Cohen
Slim's fascinating Defeat into Victory, for...
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Benjamin Franklin
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Clark, Ronald W.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Ronald W. Clark / Random House / $22.95
Tom Wendel
found work outside London. There is no certainty as to Franklin's authorship of A Witch Trial at Mount Holly. The Letter to the...
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Spectator's Journal/Norman Mailer Turns Victim
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Shaw, Peter
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SPECTATOR'S J0URNAL
NORMAN MAILER TURNS VICTIM
by Peter Shaw
Norman Mailer's 700-page Egyptian epic, Ancient Evenings, is a work so heavy and convoluted that one would have expected a reluctance...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM
The Great Books Series
Reflections on the mental hygiene of chief executives from one who ought to know:
Our leaders prate of self-defense, bankrupting the future generations of our...
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