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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...championship eights, only hardcore fans remained--meaning those who actually knew something about the sport and the athletes. One, a would-be crewbie, side-lined by a crushed thumb in a weight-room accident, kept screaming, "Go Columbia...
...written this review about two years ago, I would have filled the page with more such examples of Reagan's evident intellectual ineptitude and brazen disregard for facts, not to mention his self-serving alibis and revisionism about prominent scandals. Speaking My Mind is a veritable treasure trove of Reagan gaffes and misstatements of the kind that filled up two volumes by Mark Green and Gail MacColl, There He Goes Again and Reagan's Reign of Error...
...years ago, I would have revelled in smug liberal elitism and written a review that painted Reagan and everyone who voted for him as consummate fools. I would have also missed the most important part of Reagan's book...
This is not a wild caricature of prevailing liberal opinion. Liberal publications took obvious delight in exposing the falsehoods and hyperbole in Reagan's pronouncements. Mother Jones magazine even offered Reagan's Reign of Error as a subscription premium. Liberals assumed that if only people knew the facts, they would reject Reagan's simplistic demagoguery and turn to the enlightened liberal truth...
...first two sets of the game, however, it looked as if history would repeat itself as Princeton settled into an all-too-familiar routine...