Volume 30, Number 16 · October 27, 1983
Reagan: The Fruits of Success
By James Fallows
The Reagan Presidency: An Early Assessment
edited by Fred I. Greenstein
John Hopkins University Press, 197 pp., $7.95 (paper)
Gambling with History: Ronald Reagan in the White House
by Laurence I. Barrett
Doubleday, 511 pp., $19.95
Reagan's Ruling Class: Portraits of the President's Top One Hundred Officials
by Ronald Brownstein, by Nina Easton
Pantheon, 759 pp., $9.95 (paper)
In the Cabinet Room of the West Wing of the White House, where tall leather chairs, one slightly taller than the rest, surround an oval table, each president hangs portraits of three predecessors, implying similarities the incumbent finds appropriate or flattering. Lincoln and Jefferson are traditional choices; but in place of Harry Truman, whom Jimmy Carter had retrieved from the White House storeroom, Ronald Reagan selected Calvin Coolidge.
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