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This is the definitive biography of Ronald Reagan by the leading Reagan reporter, the White House correspondent for The Washington Post . Lou Cannon's full-dress biography is about an ordinary man from Illinois who grew up to be the fortieth President of the United States. It is a book about a man who speaks to the future with a vision of the past, promising a return to the golden age he believes was America in his childhood. It is a book about Ronald Wilson Reagan and the ways he grew and mastered the communicative skills which made him a conservative folk hero, two-time Governor of California, and President. It is a book about a boy who found "a clean kind of hatred"in playing football and who practiced announcing imaginary football games into a broomstick microphone. This boy was a dreamer, who read about the lives of America's heroes and imagined he was one of them. He was an optimist, who remained so even when the dreams of his family were crushed by the Depression and who thrilled to the message of hope in Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural speech. This is a book about a conservative Republican with liberal Democratic heroes. Reagan is also a warts-included critical biography of

Author

Cannon, Lou

Publisher

New York: Putnam

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780399127564

Subjects

History, Biography, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.16 / 5 (156 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14