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I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan

I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan

by Nancy Reagan

No matter what else was going on in his life or where he was—traveling to make movies, at the White House, or sometimes just across the room—Ronald Reagan wrote letters to Nancy Reagan, to express his love, thoughts, and feelings, and to stay in touch. Through these extraordinary letters and reflections, the private character and life of an American president and his first lady are revealed. Nancy Reagan reflects... (more)

Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan

by Edmund Morris

The only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--Dutch is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. Thirteen years of exhaustive research in the archives of Washington and Hollywood, and thousands of hours of interviews with the President and his family, friends, allies, and enemies, equipped Morris with an unmatched knowledge of one of... (more)

The Reagan Diaries

by Douglas Brinkley, Ronald Reagan

During his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Now, nearly two decades after he left office, this remarkable record—the only daily presidential diary in American history—is available for the first... (more)

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)

The Reagan I Knew

by Jr. Buckley, William F.

In The Regan I Knew , the late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the political wilderness and into the White House. Ronald Reagan and Buckley were political allies and close friends throughout Reagan’s political career. They went on vacations together and shared inside jokes. When Reagan was elected... (more)

The common sense of an uncommon man : the wit, wisdom, and eternal optimism of Ronald Reagan

The common sense of an uncommon man : the wit, wisdom, and eternal optimism of Ronald Reagan

by James Denney, Ronald Reagan

Some say Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of our century. He rescued America from economic collapse and ended the cold war. He toppled the Soviet "Evil Empire" without firing a shot. Now his son, Michael Reagan -- the most listened-to nighttime talk show host -- takes you on a tour of the heart and mind of our fortieth president. Funny, inspiring, and warmly nostalgic, The Common Sense of an Uncommon Man... (more)

Ronald Reagan : the wisdom and humor of the Great CommunicatorRonald Reagan

Ronald Reagan : the wisdom and humor of the Great Communicator

by Ronald Reagan

In a unique collection of photographs and quotations, a celebration of the warmth, wisdom, and humor of Ronald Reagan.

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War

by Jim Mann

In The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, New York Times bestselling author James Mann directs his keen analysis to Ronald Reagan’s role in ending the Cold War. Drawing on new interviews and previously unavailable documents, Mann offers a fresh and compelling narrative—a new history assessing what Reagan did, and did not do, to help bring America’s four-decade conflict with the Soviet Union to a close. As he did so... (more)

Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future

Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future

by William Bunch

In this provocative new book, award-winning political journalist Will Bunch unravels the story of how a right-wing cabal hijacked the mixed legacy of Ronald Reagan, a personally popular but hugely divisive 1980s president, and turned him into a bronze icon to revive their fading ideology. They succeeded to the point where all the GOP candidates for president in 2008 scurried to claim his mantle, no matter how... (more)

President Ronald Reagan's Initial Actions Project

President Ronald Reagan's Initial Actions Project

by White House Staff

President Ronald Reagan was also facing an economic downturn. An action plan was created allowing the White House to lead by actions, not by reaction

When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan

When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan

by Peggy Noonan

From the bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution comes an elegiac tribute to one of America's most beloved leaders. It is twenty years—a full generation—since Ronald Reagan first walked into the White House and ignited a revolution. From the beginning, he enjoyed the American people's affection but now, as he approaches the end of his life, he has received what he deserved even more: their deep... (more)

President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime

President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime

by Lou Cannon

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 complexities of the man, baffling most who came in contact with... (more)

Ronald Reagan in Private: A Memoir of My Years in the White House

Ronald Reagan in Private: A Memoir of My Years in the White House

by Jim Kuhn

From the Oval Office to Camp David to Air Force One, a portrait of the real Ronald Reagan, away from the journalists, cameras, and microphones. During his White House years, President Reagan earned the love and admiration of millions, and altered the course of history. Jim Kuhn, his executive assistant, was one of the very few people privileged to see the Great Communicator not just during his... (more)

Reagan: A Life in Letters

by Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan may have been the most prolific correspondent of any American president since Thomas Jefferson. The total number of letters written over his lifetime probably exceeds 10,000. Their breadth is equally astonishing -- with friends and family, with politicians, children, and other private citizens, Reagan was as dazzling a communicator in letters as he was in person. Collectively, his letters reveal his... (more)

Revolution: The Reagan Legacy (Hoover Press Publication, 399)Martin Anderson

Revolution: The Reagan Legacy (Hoover Press Publication, 399)

by Martin Anderson

Revolution gives a vivid account of how Reagan came to power, the way he governed, and the people around him— Bush, Haig, Deaver, Weinberger, Shultz, Stockman, Jim Baker, Don Regan, Casey, North —right through a detailed analysis of the Iran-Contra affair. Anderson, called the "intellectual powerhouse behind policy" and "the invisible man" in Reagan's White House," presents a clear and thought-provoking... (more)

Reckoning with Reagan: America and Its President in the 1980s

Reckoning with Reagan: America and Its President in the 1980s

by Michael Schaller

At the height of Ronald Reagan's popularity in July 1986, Time magazine wrote glowingly of how he had "found America's sweet spot." Reagan seemed a "magician who carries a bright, ideal America like a holograph in his mind and projects its image in the air." Not since the rhapsody about "Camelot" that surrounded John F. Kennedy in the wake of his assassination had a president been spoken of so reverently. Reagan... (more)

Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987

Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987

by Bob Woodward

Veil is the story of the covert wars that were waged in Central America, Iran and Libya in a secretive atmosphere and became the centerpieces and eventual time bombs of American foreign policy in the 1980s.

The Long Goodbye

by Patti Davis

President Reagan’s daughter’s personal farewell to her father In The Long Goodbye , Patti Davis describes losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease, saying goodbye in stages, helpless against the onslaught of a disease that steals what is most precious—a person’s memory. "Alzheimer’s," she writes, "snips away at the threads, a slow unraveling, a steady retreat; as a witness all you can do is watch,... (more)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

by Happy Traum

Books 1, 2, 3, and 4 all brought together in one complete volume.

How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life

by Peter Robinson

As a young speechwriter in the Reagan White House, Peter Robinson was responsible for the celebrated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. He was also one of a core group of writers who became informal experts on Reagan -- watching his every move, absorbing not just his political positions, but his personality, manner, and the way he carried himself. In How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life , Robinson draws on... (more)

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