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Order & Law: Arguing the Reagan Revolution—A Firsthand Account, by Charles Fried (Simon & Schuster, 256 pp., $19.95)

CHARLES FRIED begins his book by posing a rhetorical question: “What does the solicitor general do?” His answer: He prepares to take his seat on the United States Supreme Court. “In this century two chief justices and several associate justices have had the job,” we learn.

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Order & Law: Arguing the Reagan Revolution—A Firsthand Account, by Charles Fried (Simon & Schuster, 256 pp., $19.95)

CHARLES FRIED begins his book by posing a rhetorical question: “What does the solicitor general do?” His answer: He prepares to take his seat on the United States Supreme Court. “In this century two chief justices and several associate justices have had the job,” we learn.