The Reagan I Knew
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465018025 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In a strobe light Glimpses of Ronald Reagan thru his interactions with journalist William F Buckley. More like a strobelight than spotlight with a smallish number of chapters telling of some experience between the two -- the most substantial being their disagreement and debate over the Panama Canal.There is suprisingly little . Nicholas Dujmovic said painfully disappointing for RR/WFB devotee. I fully expected to enjoy and learn from this book. As a reader of National Review for a quarter century and a latter-day Reaganaut, I had high hopes. But it turns out a more apt title would be "The William F. Buckley Who Knew the Reagans and Gave One Clever Advice While Flirting With the Other." I don't know. "An Oddity: a Bad Buckley Book" according to Ted Marks. Bill Buckley should have quit when he was ahead. Buckley had a marvelous career as a conservative icon, and he was one of the major reasons that Republican conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan ran for the highest office in the land (Reagan got there; Goldwater lost to Lyndon B. Johnson who was
. From Publishers Weekly Buckley worked on this book—commemorating his 30-relationship with Ronald Reagan—up to his final days. Malcolm Hillgartner performs a good balancing act, shifting from the essays to the letters with subtle changes that clearly indicate whose letter is being read. (Jan.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. He struggles to paint a picture of a more private Reagan, but the book sheds little fresh insight; instead, it is a scattershot compilat
When nobody could turn on the microphone, Reagan climbed out a window, walked along a ledge to the locked control room, broke in, and flipped the correct switch. Buckley Jr. No two people were more important to American conservatism in the postwar era than William F. Buckley’s writings provided the intellectual underpinnings, while Reagan brought the conservative movement into the White House.They met in 1961 when Reagan introduced a speech by Buckley. Buckley later described this moment as a nifty allegory of Reagan’s approach to foreign policy: the calm appraisal of a situation, the willingness to take risks, and then the decisive moment leading to lights and sound.”For over thirty years, the two