From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of Ronald Reagan, the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservative era in American politics.
Despite his fame as a Hollywood star and television host, Reagan remained an enigma--a man of profound contradictions--even to those closest to him.
Believing that this inscrutability contributed to Reagans appeal, Max Boot sought to reveal the real man behind the mythology.
Drawing on more than a hundred new interviews and thousands of newly available documents, Reagan tells the epic story of the Depression-era poor boy who transfixed and transformed the nation.
Yet Boot, a one-time Republican policy advisor, offers no apologia, depicting a man with a Manichean, good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing.
Providing revelatory insights into trickle-down economics, the Cold Wars end, the Iran-Contra affair, and so much more, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades.
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