President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination
by Richard Reeves
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25 years after Reagan became president, Richard Reeves has written a new portrait, using newly declassified documents and hundreds of interviews to show a president at work day by day, sometimes minute by minute. This is the story of a bold, even reckless leader, a gambler, a man who imagined an American past and an American future--and made them real. Reeves shows a man who understands how to be President, who knows that the job is not to manage the government but to lead the nation. In show more many ways, a quarter of a century later, he is still leading, a heroic figure if not always a hero. He did not destroy communism, but he knew it would self-destruct and hastened the collapse. Like one of his heroes, Franklin D. Roosevelt, he has become larger than life. As Roosevelt became an icon central to American liberalism, Reagan became the nucleus holding together American conservatism. He is the only president whose name became a political creed, a noun not an adjective: "Reaganism."--From publisher description. show lessTags
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Morryman84 I believe this was one of Ronald Reagan's favorite American Presidents
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Reeves' recent work on presidents has been excellent, although I would rate this work and the one on President Kennedy higher than the book on the elusive character of Richard Nixon. I was not a particular fan of Reagan's policies, but always respected the human being, and Reeves gives a fair and unbiased picture of this influential figure.
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18+ Works 2,128 Members
Richard Reeves is a syndicated columnist and teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He lives in Washington, D.C. and New York. (Bowker Author Biography)
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2005
- People/Characters
- Ronald Reagan
- Important places
- USA
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 973.927092 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- 1953-2001 Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 Biography
- LCC
- E877 .R44 — History of the United States United States Later twentieth century, 1961-2000 Reagan's administrations, 1981-1989 Assassination attempt
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- 206
- Popularity
- 157,943
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.82)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 2
