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President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime


Lou Cannon



1891620916
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Format: Paperback, 992pp.
ISBN: 1891620916
Publisher: Public Affairs
Pub. Date: April 2000

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Hailed by the New Yorker as "a superlative study of a president and his presidency," Lou Cannon's President Reagan remains the definitive account of our most significant presidency in the last fifty years. Ronald Wilson Reagan, the first actor to be elected president, turned in the performance of a lifetime. But that performance concealed the complexities of the man, baffling most who came in contact with him. Who was the man behind the makeup? Only Lou Cannon, who covered Reagan through his political career, can tell us. The keenest Reagan-watcher of them all, he has been the only author to reveal the nature of a man both shrewd and oblivious. Based on hundreds of interviews with the president, the First Lady, and hundreds of the administration's major figures, President Reagan takes us behind the scenes of the Oval Office. Cannon leads us through all of Reagan's roles, from the affable cowboy to the self-styled family man; from the politician who denounced big government to the president who created the largest peace-time deficit; from the statesman who reviled the Soviet government to the Great Communicator who helped end the cold war.

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"President Reagan is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the star of politics in the 1980s.
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About the Author
Lou Cannon covered Ronald Reagan for more than twenty-five years, first as a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and later as the Washington Post White House correspondent. Cannon is the author of two previously published books on Reagan and, most recently, Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD. He lives in Summerland, California, just five miles outside of Santa Barbara.
Lou Cannon has been called "a reporter's reporter" by no less than George Will, who described Cannon's earlier book on Reagan's ascent as "the best guide we have to how Ronald Reagan became who he is and what he is."

 

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Table of Contents
Preface To The 1991 Editionix
Preface To The 2000 Editionxi
1Back to the Future1
2A Reagan Portrait16
3The Acting Politician20
4The Acting President31
5Offstage Influences45
6Heroic Dreams66
7Halcyon Days78
8Kidding on the Square95
9Hail to the Chief115
10Passive President141
11The Loner172
12Staying the Course196
13Focus of Evil240
14Freedom Fighters289
15Lost in Lebanon339
16An Actor Abroad402
17Morning Again in America434
18Turning Point488
19Darkness at Noon521
20Struggles at Twilight580
21The New Era663
22Visions and Legacies711
Notes765
Bibliography820
Acknowledgments835
Index842


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