Reagan : an American journey
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Reagan : an American journey
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- Label
- Reagan : an American journey
- Title remainder
- an American journey
- Statement of responsibility
- Bob Spitz
- Subject
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- trueConservatism -- United States
- trueFilm actors and actresses
- Governors -- California -- Biography
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- trueHistory writing -- United States -- 1980s
- trueHistory writing -- United States -- Presidency -- 20th century
- trueLife stories -- Politics | Politicians
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- truePresidents -- United States -- Biography
- trueReagan, Ronald
- Reagan, Ronald
- trueUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989
- trueBiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with irresistible storytelling charm, Bob Spitz's REAGAN stands fair to be the first truly post-partisan biography of our 40th President, and thus a balm for our own bitterly divided times. It is the quintessential American triumph, brought to life with cinematic vividness: a young man is born into poverty and raised in a series of flyspeck towns in the Midwest by a pious mother and a reckless, alcoholic, largely absent father. Severely near-sighted, the boy lives in his own world, a world of the popular books of the day, and finds his first brush with popularity, even fame, as a young lifeguard. Thanks to his first great love, he imagines a way out, and makes the extraordinary leap to go to college, a modest school by national standards, but an audacious presumption in the context of his family's station. From there, the path is only very dimly lit, but it leads him, thanks to his great charm and greater luck, to a solid career as a radio sportscaster, and then, astonishingly, fatefully, to Hollywood. And the rest, as they say, is history. Bob Spitz's REAGAN is an absorbing, richly detailed, even revelatory chronicle of the full arc of Ronald Reagan's epic life - giving full weight to the Hollywood years, his transition to politics and rocky but ultimately successful run as California governor, and ultimately, of course, his iconic presidency, filled with storm and stress but climaxing with his peace talks with the Soviet Union that would serve as his greatest legacy. It is filled with fresh assessments and shrewd judgments, and doesn't flinch from a full reckoning with the man's strengths and limitations"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 973.927092
- B
- Illustrations
- photographs
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E877
- LC item number
- .S75 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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