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If he were in trouble and had just one phone call to make, Ronald Reagan was once asked, whom would he dial? He answered unhesitatingly with two words: Ed Meese. So it was hardly surprising last week that Reagan, facing the most serious crisis of his presidency, would turn to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of Mr. Fix-It | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

On the evidence of his letters, Thomas went on clutching his damp adolescent convictions until, some 20 years later, he died of drink and complications in a New York City hospital. The task of being a law unto himself entailed the remorseless exploitation of intimates, casual acquaintances and total strangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poet Who Never Grew Wise the Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

This is a novel written in blood and Inc. The author has been a speechwriter for Lee Iacocca, Gerald Ford and the chairman of the board of American Motors, and he has manifestly spent many hours with Kafka's In the Penal Colony and Orwell's dystopian visions. Walker's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Pleasures and Promises | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

The crisis was a bruising political setback for Mitterrand. And Hernu was a special loss. The 62-year-old former magistrate is a longtime confidant of the President's. Hernu almost single-handedly persuaded the Socialist Party in 1976 to support the French nuclear force de frappe, which it had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Criminal, Absurd . . . and Stupid | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

COPS, Mark Baker - FINAL CUT, Steven Bach - HITLER: MEMOIRS OF A CONFIDANT, edited by Henry Ashby Turner Jr. - PICTURES FROM THE WATER TRADE, John David Morley - YEAGER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editor's Choice Fiction Captain Maximus | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

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