Volume 35, Number 11 · June 30, 1988
Seeing Stars
By Martin Gardner
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ESSAY
Where's the Rest of Me?
by Ronald Reagan, by Richard G. Hubler
Elsevier-Dutton (out of print)
Astrology for Adults
by Joan Quigley
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (out of print)
Astrology for Teens
by Angel Star (Joan Quigley)
Bantam (out of print)
Astrology for Parents of Children and Teenagers
by Joan Quigley
Prentice-Hall (out of print)
President Reagan, asked at his May 17 press conference if he believed in astrology, replied: 'I've not tied my life to it, but I won't answer the question the other way because I don't know enough about it to say is there something to it or not.' In the unkind sense that there are few topics outside of show business about which Reagan knows enough to have sound opinions, his answer may have been truthful, but in any ordinary interpretation his reply was deceptive. There is ample documentation for the President's long-standing enthusiasm for astrology.
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