Reagan as President

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Paul Kengor, PhD, is the New York Times bestselling author of God and Ronald ­Reagan, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative, Dupes, The Communist, and other books.A professor of political science and the executive director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, he has written for /5().

-- Jon Meacham, The Washington Post Book World "An invaluable contribution to our understanding of the man and his times." -- Terry Golway, New York Observer "Reeves's President Reagan is different.

It is a cogent, evenhanded, in-depth examination of the Reagan presidency A fitting reminder of a presidency that changed the world."Cited by:   Straight-forward and even-handed account of our 40th President.

The narrative moves sprightly along (no surprise given the length of the book, covering a two-term presidency), with a balanced presentation of Reagan's accomplishments (detente with the Soviets, recovering some of the people's trust in the federal gov't, especially the White House) and his failures /5.

Hailed by the New Yorker as "a superlative study of a president and his presidency," Lou Cannon's President Reagan remains the definitive account of our most significant presidency in the last fifty years.

Ronald Wilson Reagan, the first actor to be elected president, turned in the performance of a lifetime.4/5. You also believe Ronald Reagan was the greatest president in your lifetime - a man who honored the Constitution and the Rights expressed therein.

We agree, and that's why we started this company - to give you the privacy you deserve and the ability to share the Reagan name with every email you send. The presidency of Ronald Reagan began at noon EST on Januwhen Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States, and ended on Janu Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following a landslide victory over Democratic incumbent President Jimmy Carter in the presidential was Cabinet: See list.

President Reagan: The Role of A Lifetime by Lou Cannon: This book, based on hundreds of interviews with Reagan, first lady Nancy Reagan and leading administration figures, is a. REAGAN An American Journey By Bob Spitz Illustrated.

Penguin Press. $ As Ronald Reagan prepared to graduate from Eureka College inhe told a group of fraternity brothers that if. Paul Kengor, PhD, is the New York Times bestselling author of God and Ronald Reagan, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative, Dupes, The Communist, and other books.A professor of political science and the executive director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, he writes /5(3).

Cannon weaves summaries and examples of Reagan's past throughout the entire book, bringing up personality traits or past experiences when they become relevant to the central story of the Reagan White House.

The former President--a seemingly enigmatic figure, as Cannon admits--comes off as you'd expect; a dedicated, honest, visionary Cited by:   Although over-long and often superficial in dealing with historical context, this is a book that probably comes as close to capturing the essence of Ronald Reagan the man — as opposed to Ronald.

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (–89), noted for his conservative Republicanism, his fervent anticommunism, and his appealing personal style.

The only movie actor ever to become president, he had a remarkable skill as an orator that earned him the title ‘the Great Communicator.’. Inthe people elected President Reagan to serve a second term in the White House. Reagan defeated Democratic challenger Walter Mondale in a landslide victory.

Much of Reagan's second term was mired in the Iran-Contra scandal in which Reagan was accused of selling arms to Iran to raise money to help the anti-Communists in Nicaragua. Even Reagan’s own son, Ron, sensed something was wrong at the time. He wrote in his book, My Father at A Memoir, that he first became concerned that “something beyond mellowing.

Hailed by the New Yorker as "a superlative study of a president and his presidency," Lou Cannon's President Reagan remains the definitive account of our most significant presidency in the last fifty years. Ronald Wilson Reagan, the first actor to be elected president, turned in the performance of a lifetime.

But that performance concealed the. On MaUnited States President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C.

as he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton ey believed the attack would impress actress Jodie Foster, whom he had become obsessed : Ma ; 38 years ago.

Ronald Reagan (), a former actor and California governor, served as the 40th president from to Raised in small-town Illinois, he became a. In Reagan, Ronald Reagan's life is examined through the lens of a conservative scholar who understands Reagan's goals, intentions, and motivations.

Through exclusively obtained administration documents, Larry Schweikart reveals Reagan's never-before seen initiative to create a North American energy zonethe forerunner to NAFTA and the internal battles in his Author: Larry Schweikart. Make Offer - Vintage Book Of Matches: Ronald Reagan White House Seal President Embossed Vtg 3 John F Kennedy JFK President Matches Matchbook Made in.

Schweikart’s book is a needed reassessment of Reagan by an admittedly sympathetic biographer.” Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the 20th century. That judgment will cheer some, baffle others, and produce responses of disdain, disbelief, and even anger among most liberals and professional historians (who are mostly liberal).Author: Larry Schweikart.

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Reagan has also stated, however, that his father gave him the nickname because of the “Dutch boy" haircut, once popular for little boys, that his mother gave him when he was a toddler. When asked to reconcile the two stories of the nickname's origin, Reagan stated that the haircut strengthened the use of the nickname.

To the President's dismay, the Reagan kids were involved in all of the following mishaps and scandals EXCEPT Losing a US Senate race Writing an. This revised version of President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, addresses these and other aspects of Reagan’s legacy that were not apparent when the book was published in   The definitive biography of Ronald Reagan, featuring never-before-seen documents and sources from the Reagan Presidential Library.

New York Times #1 bestselling author Larry Schweikart, armed with previously unseen sources from Ronald Reagan’s Presidential Library, uncovers the most important president of the 20th century and details the Brand: Blackstone Publishing.

Please join us for a lecture and book signing with presidential historian and best- selling author Craig Shirley on his latest book, Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother (Harper Collins: December 3, ).This event is free to attend; however, books must be purchased in the Reagan Library Museum Store to receive signature.

Introducing Ronald Reagan Live. Listen to live radio broadcast recordings of former President Ronald Reagan at his political best. Spanning several historical decades, Reagan's 1,+ radio deliveries offered commentary on the spectrum of domestic, national, and international events that occurred throughout his lifetime, both prior to and during his unprecedented three-term.

Fox News anchor Bret Baier's new book tells the story of President Reagan's summit with Mikhail Gorbachev. NPR's Scott Simon talks with him about the book and America's current president. This book documents how Mr. Reagan's style allowed some of his more ambitious and less scrupulous aides to drag the Administration into the Iran-contra affair.

The President set the overall tone - get the hostages back - but that simplistic notion left a vast vacuum, and the passionate schemes of men like Oliver North expanded quickly to fill. "Reagan: An American Journey" is honest about the president's shortcomings, including the tunnel vision and inattention that contributed to the Iran-Contra scandal that nearly undid his presidency.

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No president in this century has achieved such popularity as President Reagan did in his eight years in office. For the first time he tells the story of his public life and private life, in a book which is frank, revealing, and compellingly readable. Photographs/5(10). Nancy Reagan kisses the casket of her husband and former U.S.

President Ronald Reagan inside the rotunda of the Capitol, in Washington, J. Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, June 5, ) was the 40th President of the United States of America; his Vice-President was George H.

Bush. Reagan and Bush were Republicans. Reagan served two terms as President. A massive new biography of Ronald Reagan forces comparisons to President Trump Ronald Reagan leaving the Oval Office in He’s the subject of a new page biography by Bob : Peter Schrag.

InEdmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt," was given complete access to President Reagan, his papers, his aides, his friends and his family.

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Reagan’s ideas were debatable, of course, but the fascinating thing is that his image-shaping book predates handlers like Spencer and the wealthy team of “friends” who backed him for. Lou Cannon’s “President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime” was published in and is effectively the sequel to the later-published “Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power.”Cannon is a journalist who covered Reagan’s political career closely for nearly four decades- first as a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and later as White House correspondent for The.

“Killing Reagan,” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, is supposed to be a book of new scholarship on the Reagan presidency. Instead, it restates old. President Reagan and Pope John Paul II at the Vizcaya Museum in Miami, (Photo: Reagan Presidential Library) The role of Fatima, Portugal, in world history.

T .″The best thing I could say about Mrs. Reagan is she was a good president,″ the book’s author, Kitty Kelley, said in an interview Sunday.

Former President Reagan was asked about the book as he and Mrs. Reagan went to church services in Bel-Air on Sunday.The Online Books Page. Online Books by.

Ronald Reagan. Online books about this author are available, as is a Wikipedia article. Reagan, Ronald: Keynoting the Conservative Decade: A Speech (Heritage Lectures #23; Washington: Heritage Foundation, ) (PDF at ) Reagan, Ronald, contrib.: Mexico y Estados Unidos: Una Relacion .