Movie Nights with the Reagans
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Mark Weinberg
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781501133992
Subjects: Presidents; Presidents' spouses
Description: Former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares an intimate, behind-the-scenes look inside the Reagan presidency; told through the movies they watched together every week at Camp David. What did President Ronald Reagan think of Rocky IV? How did the Matthew Broderick film WarGames inform America's missile defense system? What Michael J. Fox movie made such an impression on President Reagan that he felt compelled to mention it in a speech to the Joint Session of Congress? A nostalgic journey through the 1980s and its most iconic films, seen through the eyes of one of Hollywood's former stars: one who was simultaneously transforming the Republican Party, the American economy, and the course of the Cold War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.