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"Whoever seeks to know the heart of Ronald Reagan will find it in Reagan Rising, as Craig Shirley once again records our 40th President with extraordinary wamth, depth and perspective. A "must add" to any Reagan fan's library." - Ken Khachigian, Ronald Reagan's Senior Presidential Campaign Aide and Chief White House Speechwriter
"Craig Shirley's newest book, Reagan Rising, reveals the real Reagan -- the ideas that shaped the man and his presidency....
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The election that changed everything: Craig Shirley's masterful account of the 1980 presidential campaign reveals how a race judged "too close to call" as late as Election Day became a Reagan landslide - and altered the course of history. To write Rendezvous with Destiny, Shirley gained unprecedented access to 1980 campaign files and interviewed more than 150 insiders - from Reagan's closest advisers and family members to Jimmy Carter himself. His...
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Today's political scene looks nothing like it did thirty years ago, and that is due mostly to Reagan's monumental reshaping of the Republican party. What few people realize, however, is that Reagan's revolution did not begin when he took office in 1980, but in his failed presidential challenge to Gerald Ford in 1975-1976. This is the remarkable story of that historic campaign-one that, as Reagan put it, turned a party of "pale pastels" into a national...