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Came the Revolution: Argument in the Reagan Era, by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Harcourt Brace, 366 pp., $17.95)

Here is an example of how Capitol Hill partisanship can turn a meticulous thinker into a reckless instigator. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, certainly one of our smartest congressmen, argues, in his new collection of speeches and articles, that the Reagan Administration created our large federal deficits on purpose. “To this day,” he writes, “I don’t think we understand that a conspiracy had seized the White House.”

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Came the Revolution: Argument in the Reagan Era, by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Harcourt Brace, 366 pp., $17.95)

Here is an example of how Capitol Hill partisanship can turn a meticulous thinker into a reckless instigator. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, certainly one of our smartest congressmen, argues, in his new collection of speeches and articles, that the Reagan Administration created our large federal deficits on purpose. “To this day,” he writes, “I don’t think we understand that a conspiracy had seized the White House.”