This is a good run-down: The GE Years: What Made Reagan Reagan [Newt said this book explained Ronald Reagan's leadership]
I knew about that and it was precisely what I was implying. What Reagan did is what Sarah Palin refused to do, for which I will ever hold her in disregard until she fixes it. Instead of getting the education she so obviously needed, she went on the speaking circuit repeating the same tired platitudes until most of America was tired of her. It is simply not enough for a candidate to blather blandishments about liberty, THEY MUST EXPRESS COMMAND OF THE CONTENT BY EXPERIENCE.