Stockman’s Triumphs

Regarding Joel Havemann’s review of David A. Stockman’s “The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed” (The Book Review, April 27), although I agree with Havemann’s opinion that Stockman is kind of a jerk, I must say that a person who describes Ronald Reagan, as Stockman did, as a “shallow, sweet old man who thinks in anecdotes, not concepts,” cannot be all bad.

NORM PLISCOU

Holtville, Calif.