Best Reagan book is “President Reagan: Role Of A Lifetime” by Lou Cannon. Lou Cannon is a California journalist who covered Reagan from the beginning of his political career all the way through his Presidency. The book is an objective, non-ideological view of Reagan and what made him so successful. It’s especially enlightening about his years in Hollywood and how they shaped his political views, and about his campaigns for Governor of California.
I wondered how good Cannon’s book was. I’ve seen it pretty cheap at Half-Price Books — a store manned by a bunch of hippie rejects. They come to work dressed like they’re going to a Code Pink Rally ... tattered t-shirt, unkempt beard, haven’t showered in a week. Its always fun to walk up to these wackos with the most right-wing book I can find ... Clancy, Limbaugh, Coulter, Schlessinger, anything about Reagan. They’re used to catering to an audience more into Michael Moore than Ronald Reagan. Crazy people ... but, I digress. I’ll have to pick Cannon’s book up next time I can stand the smell.
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