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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | November 26, 1990 issue

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The article focuses on lies told by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in his book "An American Life: The Autobiography." The author says that the book Reagan has written is a digest and concoction of easily detectable and contemptible falsehoods. Reagan could no more have written a book on his own, even this book, than he could fly to Uranus. It is not as if a living ex-President sent in a manuscript to a publisher and the publisher thought. A few years ago, the author mentioned Reagan's lying claim to have helped liberate the Nazi death camps--a claim he had made in person to Yitzhak Shamir and later to Simon Wiesenthal. That abysmal deception is not perpetuated in these pages. But a portion of the story is preserved.

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REAGAN, Ronald; DECEPTION; NAZIS; PRESIDENTS -- United States; AMERICAN Life: The Autobiography, An (Book); UNITED States
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