Reagan's America: Innocents at Home
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Book Overview
Garry Wills, touted by Business Week as the most brilliant and prolific political journalist writing today and author of Nixon Agonistes and The Kennedy Imprisonment presents a rich, human, and complex portrait of Ronald Reagan, the man and the political symbol.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0385182864
ISBN13:9780385182867
Release Date:December 1986
Publisher:Doubleday Books
Length:472 Pages
Weight:1.72 lbs.
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4 ratings
Best of the biography's on Reagan
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Gary Wills book on Reagan is an even handed portrayal of a great American figure. President Reagan's conservative vision and his strident anti-communist views changed the way America works and changed the way the world looks at us. As a liberal, I often disagreed with his views, his policies and his actions. However, one cannot be an objective viewer of history with giving him his due. He did indeed bring a level of pride and hopefulness about America that had been missing since the early days of the Kennedy presidency. For that, I will be forever grateful to him. Gary Wills book provides a window in to how Ronald Reagan changed from Roosevelt democrat to conservative republican. An excellent book that should belong to anyone's collection of political histories and biographies.
dead on
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Wills captures both the man and the eras he inhabited in prose that sometimes approaches poetry. There are fascinating historical tidbits, insights a-plenty, funny jokes ("war movies are hell"), and some breathtaking chapter finales. This guy can write.And he can indict. Wills stalks Reagan (and his real subject, Reagan's America) through each stage of his life, exposing the guilt under the glitter. Wills is a consumate hanging judge here, as in his other treatises on presidents Kennedy and Nixon.Don't be fooled, however -- it's not Reagan he's hanging.
A First class book by a first class historian
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I read the first edition printed in the 1980s. This book is not an evaluation of the Reagan Presidency, but and social historical evaluation of the culture he grew out of and eventually represented. The book would not please some who have attributed icon status to Reagan. But it provides a lot of insight into the man. Wills is a good writer and avoids the traps academics often fall into of writing a scholarly book but not well written. It is the best book on Reagan so far written.
A First class book by a first class historian
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I read the first edition printed in the 1980s. This book is not an evaluation of the Reagan Presidency, but a social historical evaluation of the culture he grew out of and eventually represented. The book would not please some who have attributed icon status to Reagan. But it provides a lot of insight into the man. Wills is a good writer and avoids the traps academics often fall into of writing a scholarly book but not well written. It is the best book on Reagan so far written.
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