Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0671573853, Audio Cassette)

The bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution lends her unmistakable voice to the groundbreaking Character Above All audio series with an illuminating examination of one of America's most popular Presidents.

Recorded live at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, Noonan continues a series of lectures delivered by a team of historians, biographers and journalists assembled by Robert Wilson to explore the Presidential character. Sharing their insight into the Presidents they have written about, these authors and scholars address the larger issue of the impact of the Presidential character on leadership and the creation of trust.

Noonan asserts that Ronald Reagan was successful because he didn't become President to "be big," but to "do big things." He knew what he thought and why. With an almost offhand courage, he turned his philosophy into his policies.

Character Above All is incomparable audio, crackling with the energy and excitement of a great mind at work and the intellectual urgency befitting a topic of lasting national importance.