Western Troika
The President, The Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World
by
John O’Sullivan
Regnery, 2006
(360 pages, $27.95, hardcover)
reviewed by Joan Frawley Desmond
In The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister, John O’Sullivan, National Review editor at large and a veteran British journalist, describes the parallel and intersecting goals and experiences of John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher.
His special contribution is the juxtaposition of his protagonists’ inspired public moves with once secret commentary from Politburo meetings. He shows that while Western diplomats—in the Vatican as well as WashingtonR . . .
