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Articles in Dec, 1990 issue of Washington Monthly

• Who's at the Helm? - book reviews
  by Roger Morris
• The Defense Revolution: Strategy for the Brave New World. - book reviews
  by David C. Morrison
• Dishonest Abe; how LBJ's favorite Supreme Court justice became the prototype of Washington's valueless lawyers - Abe Fortas, Lyndon B. Johnson
  by Allan J. Lichtman
• Uncle Sam doesn't want you; government agencies are a haven for the mediocre because they don't try to get anybody better - Cover Story
  by John Heilemann
• Mental health spas; how money intended for homeless psychotics went to suburban neurotics
  by Andrew Bates
• The making of the president 1996 - Dan Quayle - standard target for comedians
  by Paul Taylor
• Good-for-nothing Samaritans; charities are as dependent on federal handouts as the worst welfare abuser - critical review of Teresa Odendahl's 'Charity Begins at Home'
  by Walter Shapiro
• Small places: In Search of a Vanishing America. - book reviews
  by Ward Sinclair
• How they missed that story; the first casualty of Desert Shield was a skeptical press - Operation Desert Shield
  by James Bennet
• What the beltway could learn from the Bible belt; campaigns aren't horse races, they're moral arguments - critical review of Garry Wills's 'Under God: Religion and American Politics'
  by Michael Cornfield
• Banking on secrecy; with our banks about to go the way of our S&Ls, it's time we made the Freedom of Information Act cover financial institutions too
  by Teresa Simons
• The natives are arrestless; the Justice Department has jurisdiction over Indian reservations, but is letting people get away with murder
  by Nicholas Hentoff