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Title: anecdotal western history from a real westerner
Review: This lengthy memoir contains enough interesting contemporary history from a westerner who helped make history to keep even those not interested in politics reading. The Nevada chapters are wonderfully evocative of life and times in the Silver State before it became America's Adult Playground, and Laxalt's account of the fall of Ferdinand Marcos and its aftemath is gripping. Through it all, the author manages to remain self-effacing and affable: I found myself liking him even when I didn't like his conservative asides. Laxalt's rue-laced account of how two anti-big government Republican governors created the Tahoe Regional Planning Authority is not to be missed.
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