Volume 33, Number 11 · June 26, 1986

The Stockman Episode

By John Kenneth Galbraith
The Triumph of Politics
by David Stockman

Harper and Row, 422 pp., $21.95

The Real David Stockman
by John Greenya, by Anne Urban, introduction by Ralph Nader

St. Martin's, 302 pp., $15.95

Stockman: The Man, The Myth, The Future
by Owen Ullmann

Donald Fine, 343 pp., $18.95

The point has often been made: If you hear someone in public life say that he is going to stand firmly on principle, you should take cover and warn others to do the same. There is going to be suffering. So it is, at least in economic and social policy and action.



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