Paul Michael
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This evenhanded biography of America's first celebrity president, Ronald Reagan, reads like a novel but doesn't skimp on the scholarship. Spitz starts with a prologue about Reagan's great-grandparents' emigration to America in 1857 and then breaks Reagan's life into four sections: "Midwest youth," "The Hollywood years", "Governor," and "Mr. President." Evocative detail abounds. Spitz recreates such episodes as Reagan's 1976 presidential primary challenge...