Volume 45, Number 3 · February 19, 1998
The End of the Troubles?
By Fintan O'Toole
Behind the Mask: The IRA and Sinn Fein
by Peter Taylor
TV Books, 431 pp., $29.95
Before the Dawn: An Autobiography
by Gerry Adams
William Morrow, 332 pp., $25.00
The transformation of terrorist into statesman has been in the last fifty years such a frequently recurring theme that it has almost become the political equivalent of religious redemption. In their different ways, Jomo Kenyatta, Yitzhak Shamir, Nelson Mandela, and many others have made the transition from outlaw to politician, from reviled insurgent to respected leader. Time and again, the alchemy of power has conferred retrospective sanction on what was once seen as mindless brutality.
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