President Reagan: The Role Of A LifetimePublicAffairs, 2000-03-31 - 883 psl. 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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Back to the Future | 1 |
A Reagan Portrait | 16 |
The Acting Politician | 20 |
The Acting President | 31 |
Offstage Influences | 45 |
Heroic Dreams | 66 |
Halycon Days | 78 |
Kidding on the Square | 95 |
Lost in Lebanon | 337 |
An Actor Abroad | 400 |
Morning Again in America | 428 |
Turning Point | 482 |
Darkness at Noon | 515 |
Struggles at Twilight | 574 |
The New Era | 657 |
Visions and Legacies | 705 |
Hail to the Chief | 115 |
Passive President | 141 |
The Loner | 172 |
Staying the Course | 194 |
Focus of Evil | 238 |
Freedom Fighters | 287 |
NOTES | 759 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 814 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 829 |
INDEX | 837 |
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