Reagan

Max Boot

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Son of the Midwest, movie star and mesmerising politician-America’s fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography

ISBN: 9780871409447 Category:

Description

From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of Ronald Reagan, the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservative era in American politics. Despite his fame as a Hollywood star and television host, Reagan remained an enigma-a man of profound contradictions-even to those closest to him. Believing that this inscrutability contributed to Reagan’s appeal, Max Boot sought to reveal the real man behind the mythology. Drawing on more than a hundred new interviews and thousands of newly available documents, Reagan tells the epic story of the Depression-era poor boy who transfixed and transformed the nation. Yet Boot, a one-time Republican policy advisor, offers no apologia, depicting a man with a Manichean, good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing. Providing revelatory insights into “trickle-down economics”, the Cold War’s end, the Iran-Contra affair and so much more, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades.

Additional information

Weight 1.256 kg
Dimensions 24.4 × 16.5 × 4.6 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

880

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

973.927092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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