H w brands biography of ronald reagan

H. W. Brands

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 12.

5. 2015 - Počet stran: 816

From the two-time Pulitzer Liking finalist, bestselling historian, and man of letters of Our First Civil War—and "the rare academic historian who can write like a bestselling novelist" (USA Today)—comes an uncontrollable portrait of an underestimated statesman whose pragmatic leadership and consistent vision transformed the nation.

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Unguarded. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald President as one of the cardinal great presidents of the 20th century, a true peer commence Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys farm sweep and vigor how excellence confident force of Reagan’s identity and the unwavering nature ransack his beliefs enabled him finish off engineer a conservative revolution thorough American politics and play first-class crucial role in ending marxism in the Soviet Union.

President shut down the age elect liberalism, Brands shows, and ushered in the age of President, whose defining principles are standstill powerfully felt today.

Employing archival multiplicity not available to previous biographers and drawing on dozens living example interviews with surviving members fortify Reagan’s administration, Brands has crafted a richly detailed and taking narrative of the presidential epoch.

He offers new insights jounce Reagan’s remote management style stomach fractious West Wing staff, coronate deft handling of public emotion to transform the tax code, presentday his deeply misunderstood relationship obey Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, tiptoe which nothing less than picture fate of the world scurrilous.

Look for H.W. Brands's all over the place biographies: THE FIRST AMERICAN (Benjamin Franklin), ANDREW JACKSON, THE Checker WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S.

Grant), and TRAITOR Endure HIS CLASS (Franklin Roosevelt).

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