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| Title |
Reagan : an American journey / Bob Spitz. |
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| Publisher |
New York : Penguin Press, c2018. |
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| Descript |
863 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Nonfiction. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [766]-843) and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1: DUTCH -- An Ideal Place -- " Little Bit of a Dutchman" -- "The Happiest Times of My Life" -- Ready to Shine -- "Everyone's Hero" -- "Living the Gospel" -- "The Disappearance of Margaret" -- "A People-Pleaser" -- "Another Robert Taylor" -- Part 2: RONNIE -- Letting Dutch Go -- "Button Nose" -- "Where's . . . Where's the Rest of Me?" -- In the Army Now -- "A Dangerous Man" -- Trouble in Paradise -- The Blue Period -- "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" -- "Ronnie's Finest Hour" -- Moving from Left to Right -- An "Apprenticeship for Public Life" -- The Friends of Ronald Reagan -- The Citizen Politician -- Part 3: GOVERNOR -- "Prairie Fire" -- The Non-Candidate -- The Conservation Governor -- "A Horse of a Different Color" -- "Momentum" -- The Front-Runner -- "Big Mo" -- "A Referendum on Unhappiness" -- Part 4: MR. PRESIDENT -- "The O and W" -- Survival of the Fittest -- Cracks in the Foundation -- War and Peace -- Urgent Fury -- "Teflon Man" -- "Let Reagan Be Reagan" -- Into the Abyss -- "A Fresh Start" -- "So Far Down the Road" -- "Back on the Roller Coaster" -- Snakebit -- Reclaiming the Spotlight -- The Long Goodbye -- An Ordinary Citizen -- "The Sunset". |
| Summary |
Draws on hundreds of interviews and previously unavailable documents to present a post-partisan biography of the fortieth president that offers insight into Reagan's universal appeal and transformative leadership. |
| Subject |
Reagan, Ronald.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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Governors -- California -- Biography.
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre |
Biographies.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
1594205310 |
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9781594205316 |
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