The Reagan paradox
Subtitle: the conservative icon and today's GOP
By: by Lou Cannon and Time contributors ; introduction by Joe Scarborough
Publisher: Time Books, an imprint of Time Home Entertainment Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781618933836
Subjects: Politics and government; Presidents; Conservatism; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Biography
Other titles: Time.
Description: Long known as The Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan has been credited with leading an ideological renaissance of the Republican Party and has become an icon to many Republicans and party leaders. Now, ten years following his death, and twenty-five years following the end of his two terms in office, the man who was credited with so much, including Reaganomics, ending the Cold War, and The War on Drugs, has become the ideological standard-bearer for a party that bears little resemblance to the one that he helped to define. So much so, that in hindsight, many of his views and policies appear to be centrist in comparison. This provides the perfect opportunity for The Editors of TIME magazine, in conjunction with many highly-regarded and well-respected writers and journalists familiar with Reagan, including Lou Cannon, Jon Meacham, Nick Clooney, Bob Spitz, and more with an introduction by Joe Scarborough, to examine the man, the politician, and the President, and the paradox of an ideological hero who no longer represents the party that he helped to define, or in fact, does he?
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a legacy of optimism and common sense  -- by Joe Scarborough; title: The practical conservative : casting a log shadow even today  -- by Lou Cannon; title: Presidential roundtable : a fresh take on the Reagan revolution  -- a panel moderated by John Meacham, with Michael Beschloss, Michael Duffy, and Craig Shirley; title: The GOP icon : why the Tea Party forgives his sins  -- by Alex Altman; title: The private man : most at home with his thoughts--and Nancy  -- by Molly Moore -- The Hollywood years : pictures prepared him for politics / -- by Robert F. Howe; title: The Governor : the California proving ground  -- by Lou Cannon; title: The great communicator : a script authentic to himself  -- by Landon Parvin; title: Remembering Reagan : friends and colleagues recall the leader and the man  -- Gen. Colin Powell, Sen. Bob Dole, Sen. John McCain, Lorraine M. Wagner and Michael Deaver; title: Time's Man of the Year 1981 : out of the past, fresh choices for the future  -- by Roger Rosenblatt and Laurence I. Barrett; title: My Reagan road trip : separating man from myth -- by Bob Spitz.