President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Cannon, Lou

Edité par Simon & Schuster, New York, 1991

Fine unread condition blue boards, dark blue cloth spine and gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Lou Cannon; Author Dedication and Acknowledgments; Preface; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "Authoritative, even-handed, meticulously researched, Lou Cannon's President Reagan will stand as one of the great accounts of an American presidency. The presidency was nothing less than the role of a lifetime for Ronald Wilson Reagan, the first actor to ascend to the highest office in the land. He appeared, on the whole, a natural for the part, turning in a performance that seemed effortless and easy, a performance that often concealed the complexities of the man and his responsibilities. No one is in a better position to explain these complexities than Lou Cannon, who has covered the phenomenon of Ronald Reagan for over a quarter century, first as a reporter for the San Jose Mercury-News, later as The Washington Post White House correspondent. In President Reagan, a masterwork that will stand as the definitive account of the most significant American presidency since FDR's, Cannon takes us behind the all-American smile of the acting president. He uncovers the subtleties of the man whose essential optimism and shrewdness reflected the divided nature of the nation itself. Cannon, who has interviewed hundreds of the administration's major figures (including the President and the First Lady), takes us behind the scenes in the Oval Office, through every act of the eight-year Reagan reign. He shows us all the roles of President Reagan: the comforter who saw the nation through the Challenger disaster and other crises; the politician who denounced the welfare state, spread the gospel of neo-conservatism, and armed the Contras; the statesman who carried the message of American might as he welcomed a new leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to the center of the global stage. Cannon shows us the Great Communicator who stirred out hopes but whose superficiality sometimes damaged his credibility. He shows us the hero who outlived the assassin's bullets and countered with a joke; the self-styled family man whose children were always "off-stage"; the affable cowboy whose stubborn unwillingness to change his stand, even when facts proved him wrong, astonished even his own advisers. President Reagan is a close-up view of eight years in the history of America and the man whose legacy is now only beginning to be clarified. Lou Cannon provides the most incisive presidential portrait in recent memory." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. N° de réf. du vendeur 007459

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime [...
Éditeur : Simon & Schuster, New York
Date d'édition : 1991
Reliure : Hardcover
Illustrateur : Levavi & Levavi (book design); Anthony, Robert (jacket design); Zaruba, Jeffrey (author photograph)
Etat : Fine
Etat de la jaquette : Very Good
Edition : 1st Edition