Hailed by the New Yorker as "a superlative study of a president and his presidency," Lou Cannon's President Reagan remains the definitive account of our most significant presidency in the last fifty years. Ronald Wilson Reagan, the first actor to be elected president, turned in the performance of a lifetime. But that performance concealed the ...
A comprehensive biography of Ronald Reagan 's governorship, based on never-before mined cabinet minutes, recent interviews with former staff members, and a lifetime of reporting from the former president 's definitive biographer. In Governor Reagan , Lou Cannon offers -through recent interviews and research drawn from his unique access to the ...
Incisive journalism on the 1991 Rodney King incident, the subsequent trial, verdict, and riots, and their effect on Los Angeles, by a reporter who has worked for "The Washington Post".
Karl Rove is credited with the strategy that got George W. Bush to the White House, and with masterminding the successful congressional campaigns that gave the Republicans a majority in Congress. Here, two political reporters review Rove's early years as a political consultant in Texas and the battles he fought and won that reshaped party ...
This is an insightful examination of what remains of the Reagan agenda in the Bush era by a father/son reporting team that has covered six of the last seven presidencies.George W Bush ran for office promising to continue what conservative icon Ronald Reagan started, and two years into his first term, Bush was still being described as "Reagan's son ...
Unlike President George. W. Bush, Karl Rove, his chief political adviser, is rarely "misunderestimated. " Many of the president's opponents see Rove's hand in everything the president does. His friends, and the president himself, are just thankful he's on their side, and always has been. From their earliest days in Texas, Rove saw and tapped ...
Ronald Reagan's presidency, and his role in history, as told by this definitive biographer and illustrated with the documents, photographs, artifacts, and audio recordings from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The Presidential Portfolio combines the unparalleled perspective of reporter and historian Lou Cannon with the vast holdings of the ...
These two definitive biographies of the late former president written by a veteran "Washington Post" journalist are now packaged together in one complete boxed set. Includes "Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power" and "President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime."
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