President Reagan: The Role Of A Lifetime

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PublicAffairs, 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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Lou Cannon covered Reagan for thirty-six years, first as a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, later as the Washington Post White House correspondent. He is the author of four other books on Reagan including Ronnie and Jesse: A Political Odyssey, Reagan, and President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, widely regarded as the definitive biography and as "the best study of that enigmatic presidency " (New York Times Book Review). He lives in Summerland, California, near Santa Barbara.

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