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Reagan : an American journey / Bob Spitz.

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Penguin Press, 2018.

Reagan, Ronald.

Presidents -- United States -- Biography.

Governors -- California -- Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.

9781594205316 (hc.)

863 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: DUTCH. An ideal place ; A little bit of a Dutchman ; The happiest times of my life ; Ready to shine ; Everyone's hero ; Living the Gospel ; The disappearance of Margaret ; A people-pleaser ; Another Robert Taylor -- Part 2: RONNIE. Letting Dutch go ; Button nose ; Where's ... Where's the rest of me? ; In the army now ; A dangerous man ; Trouble in paradise ; The blue period ; Nancy (with the laughing face) ; Ronnie's finest hour ; Moving from left to right ; An apprenticeship for public life ; The friends of Ronald Reagan ; The citizen politician -- Part 3: GOVERNOR. Prairie fire ; The non-candidate ; The conservation governor ; A horse of a different color ; Momentum ; The front-runner ; Big Mo ; A referendum on unhappiness -- Part 4: MR. PRESIDENT. The O and W ; Survival of the fittest ; Cracks in the foundation ; War and peace ; Urgent fury ; Teflon man ; Let Reagan be Reagan ; Into the abyss ; A fresh start ; So far down the road ; Back on the rollercoaster ; Snakebit ; Reclaiming the spotlight ; The long goodbye ; An ordinary citizen ; The sunset.

Based on interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, Bob Spitz provides a post-partisan biography of Ronald Reagan. A young man is born into poverty and raised by a pious mother and a reckless, alcoholic, largely absent father, he became a radio sportscaster, a Hollywood star, the Governor of California, and an icon President of the United States. -- adapted from publisher info.

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