What is in the book
One B-movie actor became the most consequential president of the late twentieth century - and it started in a flat above a bakery.
Ronald Reagan's journey from Depression-era Illinois to the White House reads like fiction, except the Cold War ending was real. The shoe salesman's son who couldn't keep his father sober somehow convinced America he could keep it safe. The B-movie actor who peaked playing opposite a chimp rewrote the rules of political communication. The California governor who raised taxes became the conservative icon who promised to shrink government.
Inside this rapid-fire biography:
- How a sports broadcaster with no political experience talked his way into the governorship of America's largest state
- The hidden pragmatist behind the ideology - tax hikes, amnesty, and arms deals the base never wanted to admit happened
- What Reagan said at the Berlin Wall in June 1987, and why the wall fell on his successor's watch anyway
- The assassination attempt 69 days into his presidency that defined his public persona
- How Hollywood training turned press conferences into performance art
From Tampico to Tehran, this is the streamlined story of the man who made conservatism mainstream and sent the Soviet Union to history's graveyard.
Read it in under an hour. Free on Kindle Unlimited.
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