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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk—and the players raising the stakes In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Sil…

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A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legacy today.

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