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Details the origins of the Iran-Contra scandal, the roles of Reagan, Bush, CIA Director Casey, and others, and argues that President Reagan clearly set the policy then feigned ignorance to escape blame
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Veteran writer Draper has reconstructed from the voluminous documentary records the Washington connection that linked the arms sales to Khomeini's Iran with the support of the anti-Sandinista forces in Nicaragua. With keen analytical insight, he seeks out "a very thin line" that "separates" the legitimate from the illegitimate exercise of power in our government" and portrays these tangled events as "symptomatic of a far deeper disorder in the American body politic," a disorder based on the assumption of "a president almighty in foreign policy." While Stephen Kinzer's Blood of Brothers ( LJ 3/15/91) and Joseph P. Persico's The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey: from the OSS to the CIA ( LJ 10/1/90) cover specific aspects of these events, Draper's work will stand as the definitive source on the constitutional consequences of the Iran-Contra affairs for decades to come. Highly recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 1/91.
- James Rhodes, Luther Coll., Decorah, Ia.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Draper includes congressional testimony, private depositions and a new afterword in this authoritative account of how a handful of officials took over U.S. foreign policy. This was a History Book Club alternate in cloth.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherTouchstone
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0671778145
- ISBN 13 9780671778149
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages704
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