Random Notes

□ More January Titles: In At Reagan’s Side: Twenty Years in the Political Mainstream (Doubleday, $18.95), Helene von Damm—a professional associate of Ronald Reagan for over twenty years in capacities ranging from typist to U.S. Ambassador to Austria—provides yet another insider’s account of crisis and routine in the Reagan White House.

Egypt after Nasser: Sadat, Peace, and the Mirage of Prosperity (Paragon, $22.95), by Thomas W. Lippman, is an interesting account, by the former Cairo bureau chief of the Washington Post, of the decline of Egypt from the palmy days of President Anwar Sadat—before, that is, Sadat initiated the autocratic rule, “disguised as a manifestation of popular will,” that led ultimately to his assassination—to the present state of economic chaos and social and political stagnation under the admittedly incorruptible Hosni Mubarak.

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Chilton Williamson Jr.

□ More January Titles: In At Reagan’s Side: Twenty Years in the Political Mainstream (Doubleday, $18.95), Helene von Damm—a professional associate of Ronald Reagan for over twenty years in capacities ranging from typist to U.S. Ambassador to Austria—provides yet another insider’s account of crisis and routine in the Reagan White House.

Egypt after Nasser: Sadat, Peace, and the Mirage of Prosperity (Paragon, $22.95), by Thomas W. Lippman, is an interesting account, by the former Cairo bureau chief of the Washington Post, of the decline of Egypt from the palmy days of President Anwar Sadat—before, that is, Sadat initiated the autocratic rule, “disguised as a manifestation of popular will,” that led ultimately to his assassination—to the present state of economic chaos and social and political stagnation under the admittedly incorruptible Hosni Mubarak.