Volume 35, Number 21 & 22 · January 19, 1989
Rewriting the Iran-Contra Story
By Theodore H. Draper
Men of Zeal: A Candid Inside Story of the Iran-Contra Hearings
by Senators William S. Cohen, by George J. Mitchell
Viking, 350 pp., $19.95
Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North
by Ben Bradlee Jr.
Donald I. Fine, 572 pp., $21.95
The Iranian Triangle: The Untold Story of Israel's Role in the Iran-Contra Affair
by Samuel Segev, translated by Haim Watzman
Free Press, 340 pp., $22.50
Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account of the Iran-Contra Affair
by Michael A. Ledeen
Scribner's, 307 pp., $19.95
Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984–1988
by Jane Mayer, by Doyle McManus
Houghton Mifflin, 468 pp., $21.95
We are now getting the first wave of books on the Iran and contra affairs. I use the plural, because there was no Iran-contra affair, as the title of the congressional investigation had it. There was an Iran affair and a contra affair, which most of the time were separate and distinct. They intersected at a point usually called the 'diversion,' and some of the same characters, notably Oliver North, appeared in both affairs. Nevertheless, it was never one affair but two, and each had its own raison d'être.
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