In Search of Reagan's Brain

In Search of Reagan's Brain
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ISBN-10 : 0517054949
ISBN-13 : 9780517054949
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis In Search of Reagan's Brain by : G. B. Trudeau

In Search of Reagan's Brain

In Search of Reagan's Brain
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Publisher : Holt McDougal
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105037734287
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Synopsis In Search of Reagan's Brain by : G. B. Trudeau

Satirizes the television coverage of Afghanistan and the 1980 presidential election, the American obsession with suntans, the Billy Carter affair, and the trial of the Gang of Four.

Killing Reagan

Killing Reagan
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781627792417
ISBN-13 : 1627792414
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Killing Reagan by : Bill O'Reilly

The most-talked-about political commentator in America is back with more about what he has to say to his fellow Americans. Print run 1,200,000.

Reagan's Legacy in a World Transformed

Reagan's Legacy in a World Transformed
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9780674967694
ISBN-13 : 0674967690
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Reagan's Legacy in a World Transformed by : Jeffrey L. Chidester

Reagan’s Legacy in a World Transformed offers a timely retrospective on the fortieth president’s policies and impact on today’s world, from the influence of free market ideas on economic globalization, to the role of an assertive military in U.S. foreign policy, to reduction of nuclear arsenals in the interest of stability.

The Crosswinds of Freedom, 1932–1988

The Crosswinds of Freedom, 1932–1988
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 956
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ISBN-10 : 9781453245200
ISBN-13 : 1453245200
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis The Crosswinds of Freedom, 1932–1988 by : James MacGregor Burns

A Pulitzer Prize winner’s “immensely readable” history of the United States from FDR’s election to the final days of the Cold War (Publishers Weekly). The Crosswinds of Freedom is an articulate and incisive examination of the United States during its rise to become the world’s sole superpower. Here is a young democracy transformed by the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, the rapid pace of technological change, and the distinct visions of nine presidents. Spanning fifty-six years and touching on many corners of the nation’s complex cultural tapestry, Burns’s work is a remarkable look at the forces that gave rise to the “American Century.”

Reagan

Reagan
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 834
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ISBN-10 : 9780307951144
ISBN-13 : 0307951146
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Reagan by : H. W. Brands

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—and "the rare academic historian who can write like a bestselling novelist" (USA Today)—comes an irresistible portrait of an underestimated politician whose pragmatic leadership and steadfast vision transformed the nation. 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. 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. 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).

King of the Mountain

King of the Mountain
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 496
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ISBN-10 : 9780813143309
ISBN-13 : 0813143306
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis King of the Mountain by : Arnold M. Ludwig

People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely inspired, socially purposeful, or even self-serving, all of which they attribute to being human, but they masticate, fornicate, and procreate, much as chimps and apes do, so they should have little cause to get upset if they learn that they act like other primates when they politically agitate, debate, abdicate, placate, and administrate, too." -- from the book King of the Mountain presents the startling findings of Arnold M. Ludwig's eighteen-year investigation into why people want to rule. The answer may seem obvious -- power, privilege, and perks -- but any adequate answer also needs to explain why so many rulers cling to power even when they are miserable, trust nobody, feel besieged, and face almost certain death. Ludwig's results suggest that leaders of nations tend to act remarkably like monkeys and apes in the way they come to power, govern, and rule. Profiling every ruler of a recognized country in the twentieth century -- over 1,900 people in all­­, Ludwig establishes how rulers came to power, how they lost power, the dangers they faced, and the odds of their being assassinated, committing suicide, or dying a natural death. Then, concentrating on a smaller sub-set of 377 rulers for whom more extensive personal information was available, he compares six different kinds of leaders, examining their characteristics, their childhoods, and their mental stability or instability to identify the main predictors of later political success. Ludwig's penetrating observations, though presented in a lighthearted and entertaining way, offer important insight into why humans have engaged in war throughout recorded history as well as suggesting how they might live together in peace.

Summary of The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good

Summary of The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good
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Publisher : BookRix
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9783755439998
ISBN-13 : 3755439999
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Summary of The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good by : GP SUMMARY

DISCLAIMER This book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book. Summary of The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good IN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET: Chapter astute outline of the main contents. Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis. Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original book Jonathan Rosen's The Best Minds is a story about his childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. It explores the ways in which we understand and fail to understand mental illness, and the bonds of family, friendship, and community. It is a story about the bonds of family, friendship, and community, the promise of intellectual achievement, and the lure of utopian solutions.

Rawhide Down

Rawhide Down
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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9781429919319
ISBN-13 : 1429919310
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Rawhide Down by : Del Quentin Wilber

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 A Richmond Times Dispatch Top Book for 2011 A minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was just seventy days into his first term of office when John Hinckley Jr. opened fire outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, wounding the president, press secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent, and a D.C. police officer. For years, few people knew the truth about how close the president came to dying, and no one has ever written a detailed narrative of that harrowing day. Now, drawing on exclusive new interviews and never-before-seen documents, photos, and videos, Del Quentin Wilber tells the electrifying story of a moment when the nation faced a terrifying crisis that it had experienced less than twenty years before, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. With cinematic clarity, we see Secret Service agent Jerry Parr, whose fast reflexes saved the president's life; the brilliant surgeons who operated on Reagan as he was losing half his blood; and the small group of White House officials frantically trying to determine whether the country was under attack. Most especially, we encounter the man code-named "Rawhide," a leader of uncommon grace who inspired affection and awe in everyone who worked with him. Ronald Reagan was the only serving U.S. president to survive being shot in an assassination attempt.* Rawhide Down is the first true record of the day and events that literally shaped Reagan's presidency and sealed his image in the modern American political firmament. *There have been many assassination attempts on U.S. presidents, four of which were successful: Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. President Theodore Roosevelt was injured in an assassination attempt after leaving office.

The Avant-garde and American Postmodernity

The Avant-garde and American Postmodernity
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 1617034908
ISBN-13 : 9781617034909
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Avant-garde and American Postmodernity by :

An evaluation that tracks American culture's shift from modernism into postmodernism