My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies
Craig Shirley’s “Reagan’s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All” was published in 2005. It is the first of four books by Shirley focused on various aspects of Ronald Reagan’s national political career and retirement. Shirley is an author and pubic affairs consultant, a member of the Board of Governors of the Reagan Ranch and a Trustee of Eureka College (Reagan’s alma mater). His most recent book “Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative” was published in 2017.
For most of its 346 pages, “Reagan’s Revolution” is a day-to-day account of Ronald Reagan’s provocative (and nearly successful) 1976 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Before the campaign is fully underway, however, three introductory chapters provide a helpful review of the decline of the Republican Party from the early 1960s through the mid 1970s and set the stage for Reagan’s reappearance before…
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