RONALD REAGAN
Building on exclusive interviews and access to major figures of the Reagan era such as Michael Deaver and Mikhail Gorbachev, Kenneth Walsh, longtime White House correspondent of U.S. News and World Report, shows us a more complex and compelling man than either end of the political spectrum would have us believe - an arch-conservative with roots in FDR's New Deal; a divorce who rarely saw his own children, yet lectured America on family values; a rabid hater of Communism who once belonged to leftist Hollywood organizations and later brokered peace with the Soviet Union. Though Reagan regularly blurred reality and fiction to create what he - and so many millions of Americans - wished to be true, his motivations were not always political, and here you will learn what drove Ronald Reagan from a small flat in Tampico, Illinois, to the White House, and what obstacles he overcame to get there.
© 1997
by Random House
Value Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-10: 1581650442
ISBN-13: 978-1581650440
by Kenneth T. Walsh
Political correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh examines the roots of the man who went from small-town middle America to Hollywood and the White House, and tells us how Ronald Reagan developed his unflagging belief in the American dream.
RONALD REAGAN
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"I'm an actor, not a politician."
-Ronald Reagan
At a time when America’s confidence was at an all-time low, Ronald Reagan made his grand entrance into the nation’s political spotlight and was called upon to instill the undying optimism he was so loved for. Political correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh examines the roots of the man who went from small-town middle America to Hollywood and the White House, and tells us how Ronald Reagan developed his unflagging belief in the American dream.
Walsh is one of the first of many established authors to contribute to the BIOGRAPHY ® book series, brought to you by A&E and Park Lane Press. This eclectic collection offers a remarkable variety of profiles, presented with depth,detail; and historical accuracy. Let BIOGRAPHY ® bring you behind the photos and film, behind the rumors, myths, and leg-ends, so you can truly see the men and women who made our times.
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A&E moves into books with "Biography ®" series
Deseret News
Cox News Service
Published: Sunday, Aug. 24 1997 12:00 a.m. MDT
"A&E's "Biography ®" series has already spawned a series of videos, and will now make the obvious move into books, when Crown will publish the first in a series of "Biography" books this fall. The first titles will be about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Muhammad Ali. The books will be trade paperbacks and sell for $20, and another set of four (Katharine Hepburn, Mickey Mantle, Martin Luther King and Al Capone) will be out in the spring of 1998. The picture-heavy books are being authored by reputable journalists; the Reagan book is by Kenneth Walsh, the White House correspondent for U.S. News and World Report.
Given the familiarity of the subjects, the presumption is that the audience for the books will be predominantly TV-oriented rather than book-oriented, which might account for the tentative nature of the launch - nobody's sure if the books will sell. No word on whether Peter Graves will contribute introductions."
- Scott Eyman
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