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Ronald Reagan : fate, freedom, and the making of history /

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Author / Creator:	Diggins, John P.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2007]
Subjects:	Reagan, Ronald. Reagan, Ronald > Political and social views. Presidents > United States > Biography. Presidents. Political and social views. United States. Biographies. United States > Politics and government > 1981-1989. Politics and government. 1981-1989 Conservatism > United States > History > 20th century. Conservatism. History. 20th century
Online Access:	Table of contents only

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Summary:	Following his departure from office, Ronald Reagan was marginalized thanks to liberal biases that dominate the teaching of American history, says John Patrick Diggins. Yet Reagan, like Lincoln (who was also attacked for decades after his death), deserves to be regarded as one of our three or four greatest presidents. Reagan was far more active a president and far more sophisticated than we ever knew. His negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev and his opposition to foreign interventions demonstrate that he was not a rigid hawk. And in his pursuit of Emersonian ideals in his distrust of big government, he was the most open-minded libertarian president the country has ever had; combining a reverence for America's hallowed historical traditions with an implacable faith in the limitless opportunities of the future. This is a revealing portrait of great character, a book that reveals the fortieth president to be an exemplar of the truest conservative values.
Physical Description:	xxii, 493 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-464) and index.
ISBN:	9780393060225 0393060225
Author Notes:	John Patrick Diggins: April 1, 1935 - January 28, 2009 John Patrick Diggins was born in San Francisco on April 1, 1935. He was a professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center, the author of more than a dozen books on widely varied subjects in American intellectual history. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957, a master's degree at San Francisco State College, and a doctorate at the University of Southern California in 1964. Before accepting a job at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1990, he taught intellectual history at San Francisco State College and the University of California, Irvine. Diggins wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Mussolini and Fascism (1972), On Hallowed Ground (2000), Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire under Democracy (2007), and Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom and the Making of History (2007). He died due to complications of colon cancer on January 28, 2009 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography)