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"Reagan and the Economy:
The Successes, Failures, and Unfinished Agenda.'
Institute for Contemporary Studies, 243 Kearny St., San Francisco, Calif., 94108. 301 pp.
$22.95.
Author: Michael J. Boskin
How have Ronald Reagan's economic
strategies affected American life?

Boskin, a Stanford University economist,

contends that the administration's policies,
continuing budget deficits aside, have made
the United States more productive and
prosperous tha...

by James Gleick
Viking, 1987
352 pp. $19.95

by Norman B. Hannah
Madison, 1987
335 pp. $19.95

David Montgomery Cambridge, 1987 494 pp. $27.95
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agreement" quickly evolved: North Vietnam did not overrun remote northern Laos; the Americans did not block the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the south. The trail was vital to the Comm~~&s' hidden, un- ending "slow invasion" of South Vietnam; used for replacements and re-supply, it would enable them to wage war there forever, on their own terms. But Washington always feared a wider confict. In 1964, before Lyndon Johnson...

by Harry Harding
Brookings, 1987
369 pp. $32.95

by Robert A. M. Stem, Gregory
Gilmartin, and Thomas Mellins
Rizzoli, 1987
847 pp. $75

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