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Articles in Oct, 1988 issue of Washington Monthly

• Presidential Debates: Their Power, Problems, and Promise. - book reviews
  by Fred Barnes
• Reel Politics: American Political Movies from Birth of a Nation to Platoon. - book reviews
  by Timothy Noah
• Letters to Olga. - book reviews
  by Andrei Codrescu
• California dreamin'; the trip West freed my father from the constraints of class and custom - excerpt from "More Like Us: An American Plan for American Recovery"
  by James Fallows
• Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical. - book reviews
  by Deirdre English
• And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry. - book reviews
  by David Ignatius
• Why did the Navy shoot down 290 civilians? A naval officer who served in the Persian Gulf explains what really went wrong - and why it may happen again - Iran Air flight 655
  by Scott Shuger
• The AIDS Bureaucracy. - book reviews
  by Richard Blow
• A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. - book reviews
  by Taylor Branch
• Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America's War Against Terrorism. - book reviews
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• Why Americans Don't Vote. - book reviews
  by Curtis B. Gans
• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. - book reviews
  by Jason DeParle
• Assistant secretary of what? The secret jobs that can really make a difference
  by Matthew Cooper