9780385536394

Reagan

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780385536394

Hardcover|9780385536394


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In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys with sweep and vigor how the confident force of Reagan s personality and the unwavering nature of his beliefs enabled him to engineer a conservative revolution in American politics and play a crucial role in ending communism in the Soviet Union. Reagan shut down the age of liberalism, Brands shows, and ushered in the age of Reagan, whose defining principles are still powerfully felt today. Reagan follows young Ronald Reagan as his ambition for ever larger stages compelled him to leave behind small-town Illinois to become first a radio announcer and then that quintessential public figure of modern America, a movie star. When his acting career stalled, his reinvention as the voice of The General Electric Theater on television made him an unlikely spokesman for corporate America. Then began Reagan s improbable political ascension, starting in the 1960s, when he was first elected governor of California, and culminating in his election in 1980 as president of the United Sta

ISBN-13

9780385536394

ISBN-10

0385536399

Weight

2.66 Pounds

Dimensions

6.30 x 1.70 x 9.50 In

List Price

$35.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Pages

816 pages

Publisher

Doubleday

Published On

2015-05-12



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