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“... a feeling for the men and their families. It was also political, for Reagan had capitalised on Jimmy Carter’s helplessness over the Iranian hostages to put the finishing touches to Carter’s defeat. Having lost Deaver, and now about to be hospitalised, Reagan wanted to free the hostages and not, like ...”

“... to all the jazz stuff – Bird, Dexter, Dizzy, Sonny, Miles, Ornette, Dolphy, the delectable Jimmy Giuffre – I’d filled several shopping bags with a small sampling of the rest of my CD collection, designed to satisfy whatever kind of recondite musical fix I might need on the road. Thus, all stacked up and ready to go were Conlon Nancarrow, Fatboy ...”