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Vol. 023 Issue 005 (May 1 1990)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • March has passed, and so has the J. Gordon Coogler Awards Committee. That is to say, this year the Committee is taking a pass on awarding Coogler prizes for the worst books...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Re-elect the President With his usual clarity, astuteness, and objectivity, Richard Nixon brings common sense and historical perspective to the present day Communist/free world...
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Editorials/It's Not Over/More Right Stuff
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS IT'S NOT OVER by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. From reading the American press one gets the idea that the Cold War is over, and that in the unusually mild early months of 1990 all goes...
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Capitol Ideas/On the Road to Jerusalem
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS ON THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM A s we drove from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem (about the same distance as Washington to Baltimore) Daniel Doron pointed out that the highway actually crosses the...
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Peggy's Torn
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Eberstadt, Mary
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 5 / MAY 1990 Mary Eberstadt PEGGY'S TURN The hottest political memoir in a long, long time sometimes makes you wonder: if it hadn't been for Peggy...
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Mood Swings in Managua
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O'Rourke, P. J.
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P. J. O'Rourke MOOD SWINGS IN MANAGUA The father of modern McCarthyism chronicles the Great Nicaraguan Bourgeois Counterrevolution. O n the morning of February 26, the day after Violeta...
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The Evil Emperor of Irvine, California
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Brock, David
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David Brock THE EVIL EMPEROR OF IRVINE, CALIFORNIA Larry Agran, a Jane Fonda in Tom Hayden clothing, is winning a national following as California's most ambitious left-wing mayor, with an agenda...
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Eminentoes/Fairlie Tales
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Terzian, Philip
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EMINENTOES FAIRLIE TALES by Philip Terzian H enry Fairlie was drunk. He was not just tipsy, of course, but inebriated beyond his poor powers to add and detract. His tie was askew and his bony...
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Spectator's Journal/Benin Growth
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Ciitier, Jean-Paul
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL BENIN GROWTH by Jean-Paul Mier When I was last there, in the 1960s, Dahomey was a sleepy, poor but quite happy country, under French tutelage like many of its neighbors. Just...
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Presswatch/Peter and the Wolves
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH PETER. AND THE WOLVES Let's go to the videotape, to hear from Peter Jennings, "ABC World News Tonight," February 20, 1990: We begin tonight with some facts and figures from Nicaragua...
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The Public Policy/Putting Junk to Rest
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Mysak, Joe
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THE PUBLIC POLICY PUTTING JUNK TO REST J unk bonds seemed like such a great J idea. The young were helped: striving entrepreneurs received financing for bold new projects. The old were made...
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The Talkies/Men and Their Vessels
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES MEN AND THEIR VESSELS by Bruce Bawer Given everything I'd heard about The Hunt for Red October, the new film based on Tom Clancy's bestselling novel, I'd expected to be (a) confused to...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Crawling Through the Clouds
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Shiflett, Dave
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES CRAWLING THROUGH THE CLOUDS Organist, are you asleep on the keys? And you, Reverend, must you glare from the pulpit as you ring my head with thorns? The...
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C S. Lewis
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Wilson, A. N.
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BOOK REVIEWS Not that I ever indulge in despair about the Future; there always have been men who have gone about despairing of the Future, and when the Future arrives it says nice, superior things...
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Against the Grain
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Yeltsin, Boris
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B Yeltsin, the Huey Long of ..1- 3 Russia, is impulsive, egomaniacal, and paranoid (also persecuted). He refers to himself, correctly, as "prickly, sharp-tongued, the scourge of the...
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Lincoln
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Fehrenbacker, Don E.
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LINCOLN: SPEECHES AND WRITINGS Edited by Don E. Fehrenbacker/Library of America/$70 (two volumes) William McGurn Even in a city given over to monuments, the Lincoln Memorial holds its own....
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Parting With Illusions
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Pozner, Vladimir
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PARTING WITH ILLUSIONS Vladimir Pozner/Atlantic Monthly Press/324 pp. $19.95 Cathy Young An opportunist par excellence . . . handsomely rewarded by the Establishment for his absolute lack of any...
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Hollywood / Emperor of America
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Vidal, Gore; Condon, Richard
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HOLLYWOOD: A NOVEL OF AMERICA IN THE 1920s Gore Vidal/Random House/437 pp. $19.95 EMPEROR OF AMERICA Richard Condon/Simon and Schuster/300 pp. $19.95 Victor Gold Where are they now, that pride...
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Learning by Heart
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Kirp, David L.
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LEARNING BY HEART: AIDS AND SCHOOLCHILDREN IN AMERICA'S COMMUNITIES David L. Kirp/Rutgers University Press/304 pp. $22.95 John R. Dunlap Late in August 1987, in the central Florida farming town...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Book World How the lowly Vice President George Bush overcame the Dukakis hordes, as recounted by Mr. Reid Beddow whilst reviewing Peggy Noonan's White House memoir...
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