The View from the Bridge

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I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

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[PDF file]: […] drove a large US Buick around London and moved in the same circles as Princess Margaret, and, like her, kept some extremely louche company. He turned his new home, a town house in Lownes Square SW1, into a private gambling club modelled on the Clermont and Les Ambassadeurs. (The property was used in 1968 […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA Shane O’Sullivan1 New York: Skyhorse Books, 2018; £20.00 h/b; 536 pages, notes, index Robin Ramsay So what can a major reappraisal of Watergate tell us in 2018 that we didn’t know before? Surprisingly little about the major events. But this isn’t the fault of the author, who […]

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean

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[PDF file]: […] there have been plenty of hangers-on and promoters of his ideas who see in neutral sounding concepts (such as public choice theory) the hammers to destroy the New Deal/social democrat/Keynesian thinking that dominated for so long. Buchanan worked with better known figures such as Milton Friedman and advised General Pinochet in Chile; but it […]

Last Second in Dallas, by Josiah Thompson

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[PDF file]: […] bystanders, the police officers, and the railroad men (principally S. M. Holland and Lee Bowers). Worthy stuff, but hasn’t this been done before? Does he bring anything new to the discussion? Not that I can see. Then there’s a demolishing of Luis Alvarez and his watermelons and the ‘jet effect’ (JFK’s head is forced […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who k new no economics. John Hoskyns, a businessman recruited to join the Thatcher team as Head of the Policy Unit, records in his memoir: I had been concerned […]

view from bridge

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[…] Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who k new no economics. John Hoskyns, a businessman recruited to join the Thatcher team as Head of the Policy Unit, records in his memoir: I had been concerned […]

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