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Reagan audiobook
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrator: Stephen Hoye
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State
- Length: 31 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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Reagan Audiobook Summary
From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative president
In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys with sweep and vigor how the confident force of Reagan’s personality and the unwavering nature of his beliefs enabled him to engineer a conservative revolution in American politics and play a crucial role in ending communism in the Soviet Union. Reagan shut down the age of liberalism, Brands shows, and ushered in the age of Reagan, whose defining principles are still powerfully felt today.
Reagan follows young Ronald Reagan as his ambition for ever larger stages compelled him to leave behind small-town Illinois to become first a radio announcer and then that quintessential public figure of modern America, a movie star. When his acting career stalled, his reinvention as the voice of The General Electric Theater on television made him an unlikely spokesman for corporate America. Then began Reagan’s improbable political ascension, starting in the 1960s, when he was first elected governor of California, and culminating in his election in 1980 as president of the United States.
Employing archival sources not available to previous biographers and drawing on dozens of interviews with surviving members of Reagan’s administration, Brands has crafted a richly detailed and fascinating narrative of the presidential years. He offers new insights into Reagan’s remote management style and fractious West Wing staff, his deft handling of public sentiment to transform the tax code, and his deeply misunderstood relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, on which nothing less than the fate of the world turned.
Reagan is a storytelling triumph, an irresistible portrait of an underestimated politician whose pragmatic leadership and steadfast vision transformed the nation.
Look for H.W. Brands’s other biographies: THE FIRST AMERICAN (Benjamin Franklin), ANDREW JACKSON, THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), and TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS (Franklin Roosevelt).
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Reagan Full Details
| Narrator | Stephen Hoye |
| Length | 31 hours 38 minutes |
| Author | H. W. Brands |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780449011935 |
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The publisher of the Reagan is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: biography, history books for adults, history books, history, adult books, american history, ronald reagan books, Ronald Reagan, nancy reagan, presidential biography, American president, age of Reagan, communism, soviet union, cold war, 1980 election, Gorbachev, Dutch, Jane Wyman, James Baker, Margaret Thatcher, Iran Contra, conservatism, president of the united states, ronald reagan biography, presidential biographies, reagan, american presidents, gifts for mom, h w brands, hw brands books, h.w. brands, ronald reagan book, Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State, Biography & Autobiography, Historical, History, United States, General The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State
Additional info
The publisher of the Reagan is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780449011935.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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