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Why the Reagan Revolution Failed: A Review Essay
Robert D. Reischauer reviews the value for social scientists of David Stockman's book The Triumph of Politics.  He suggests that the attention given by the media to Stockman's biting characterizations of his administration colleagues and associates on Capitol Hill has diverted attention from insights the book provides into how unsystematically the most important budgetary policy decisions of the 1980s were made.

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