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Did the Reagan Campaign Negotiate a Secret Deal with Iran?

Gary Sick was an aide to President Carter during the Iranian hostage crisis. Now Sick charges that in 1980, the Reagan campaign made a secret deal with the Iranians to hold the release of the American hostages until after the election. In his new book "October Surprise" (published by Random House), Sick tries to reconstruct the story.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, November 12, 1991: Interview with Gary Sick; Review of Harold Brodkey's novel "The Runaway Soul."
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A Novel Thirty Years in the Making.

Book critic John Leonard reviews "The Runaway Soul," the long-awaited first novel from writer Harold Brodkey. (It's published by Farrar Strauss).

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