Article: The Way Of The Wasp.(Ideas)(God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World)(Book review)

Byline: Evan Thomas

Why the Anglo-American alliance manages to blunder on

The setting was not quite as august as the cruiser on which Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in the North Atlantic, off Nova Scotia, on Aug. 9, 1941, to sing Anglican hymns and imagine a world rid of fascism. On April 9, 1975, Ronald Reagan, just out of office as governor of California, met Margaret Thatcher, newly chosen as the first woman head of the Conservative Party of Britain, at her cramped party office in London. Reagan was, as usual, debonair and immaculately groomed in a dark blue suit and white shirt. Thatcher was frumpy; she had not yet begun to dye her ...

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