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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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This riveting story of the eight years of Ronald Reagan's presidency recounts how he and his foreign policy team managed multiple crises around the globe, overseeing the worldwide expansion of democracy, globalization, free trade and the information revolution, and ending the Cold War, laying the foundation for the 21st century.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares an intimate, behind-the-scenes look inside the Reagan presidency--told through the movies they watched together during weekends at Camp David. Over the course of eight years, Mark Weinberg travelled to the legendary presidential retreat at Camp David each weekend with Ronald and Nancy Reagan. He was one of a few select members invited into Aspen Lodge when the First Family...
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