Volume 40, Number 15 · September 23, 1993
Shultz's Revenge
By Ronald Steel
Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State
by George P. Shultz
Scribner's, 1,184 pp., $30.00
George Shultz was something of an anomaly in the Reagan administration, and he liked to play it that way. He was a corporate mogul who had also been a university dean, a political moderate who could work with ideologues, a professional negotiator who believed passionately in the use of force, and an individualist who knew when to be a team player. He enjoyed a reputation for integrity and independence which could hardly be considered a hallmark of the cabinet in which he served. And when he got his hands dirty, he kept them out of sight.
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