I don't shield my politics in this book, as I do in much of my journalism, as I've been disciplined to do. The Reagan years oppressed me because of the callousness and the greed and the hard-hearted attitude toward people who have very little in this society, so all of that came together at around age 40 for me.
An Inclusive Litany
11/17/93
New York Times editorial page editor and former Washington
bureau chief Howell Raines in an interview discussing his book
Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis, on the PBS
talk show "Charlie Rose," November 17, 1993: