Volume 32, Number 3 · February 28, 1985
The Wind that Blew in Reagan
By Murray Kempton
The New Politics of Inequality
by Thomas Byrne Edsall
Norton, 287 pp., $15.95
Thomas B. Edsall's craft is the Old Mole's, which is one of the several useful vocations that fell out of style long ago. The New Politics of Inequality has the effect of the patient laying of a mine and its bold detonation of the ground where most of us franchised to assess American politics have until now set our assumptions.
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