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...The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003 by Steve Coll Allen Lane £30/Penguin Press $35, 576 pages Peter Spiegel is the FT’s US managing editor Join our online...
...Their last joint industrial action was in 1960, when Ronald Reagan was the head of the Screen Actors Guild....
...For even as he was conquering Hollywood, Schwarzenegger – who idolised the actor-turned-president Ronald Reagan – was harbouring other ambitions....
...Though presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan initiated the era of neoliberalism at home through domestic deregulation and tax cuts, they flanked their domestic policies with slogans not of “free” but...
...(Laughter) Ethan Wu Who is Lily Allen? Katie Martin OK. She’s a Brit. Robert Armstrong That explains why no one knows who she is....
...Ronald Reagan, then governor of California, joked that Nixon’s trip should be a pilot for a television series. After his resignation in disgrace, Nixon kept a constant interest in China....
...Ferguson first embraced the free market outlook of Thatcher and Reagan as an Oxford undergraduate....
...(FT) Video of the day David Allen Green: the Northern Ireland Protocol The FT’s legal commentator explains why the Northern Ireland Protocol will continue to dominate rows over Brexit. (FT)...
...It memorialises military units known as the “honorary first defenders”, including the Allen Rifles from my Pennsylvania hometown....
...James Baker served as Reagan’s chief-of-staff and as secretary of state during the tumultuous years of the end of the cold war....
...The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War Archie Brown, Oxford University Press, RRP £25/$29.95 Archie Brown’s fluent narrative of the cold war’s end pays deserved tribute...
...Reagan used to say that “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”...
...Yet, in the US, too, people Applebaum knew well shifted from the at least relatively idealistic conservatism of Reagan to the nostalgia and cynicism of Trump....
...Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone, by Charles Moore, Allen Lane, RRP£35, 1,072 pages William Waldegrave was a Conservative MP from 1979 to 1997 and is author of ‘Three...
...The election of President Ronald Reagan; the deployment of cruise nuclear missiles; the protest of the Greenham women; and the rejuvenation of the campaign for nuclear disarmament....
...Gavin Jackson is the FT’s economics reporter Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us, by Jonathan Aldred, Allen Lane, £25...
...Patrick J Allen River Forest, IL, US...
...Conceptual artists such as John Baldessari (an influential CalArts professor) and Allen Ruppersberg used photography as a means of documenting themselves performing happenings or actions....
...”); legendary folk singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott (“More of a sailor than a singer” — Dylan admired his knot-tying); playwright Sam Shepard (“He had a special knowledge of the underworld”); and beat poet Allen...
...It was the era of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, who continued much of the market deregulation that had started under Reagan and Thatcher....
...Letter in response to this editorial comment: Trump is making sure weapons don’t reappear / From Patrick J Allen, River Forest, IL, US...
...to Revive Our Economy, by Stephen Moore and Arthur B Laffer, All Points Books, RRP$28.99, 304 pages Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas, Knopf, RRP$26.95, Allen...
...The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy , by Michael Lewis, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 219 pages Brooke Masters is the FT’s opinion and analysis editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...A beaming Nancy Reagan, Ronnie reflected in her starry pupils. The artist, I was told, was Tina Mion, wife of the owner....
...Capitalism in America: A History , by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge, Penguin Press, RRP$35/Allen Press, RRP£25, 486 pages Robert Gordon is professor of economics at Northwestern university and author...
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