The authorized life of Ronald Reagan written by America?s most innovative and Pulitzer Prize-winning political biographer. This unprecedented book breaks through all conventional definitions of biography. ?Poor dear. There?s nothing between his ears.? So Margaret Thatcher described Ronald Reagan. But the Iron Lady, when in the ?poor dear?s? presence, giggled like a schoolgirl. ?One could not talk to him for more than a few minutes without being aware of the ordinariness of his mind,? says Helmut Schmidt. But Mikhail Gorbachev, deconstructor of communism, is now despised by his people, while the most popular boys? name in the former USSR is Ronald. Indisputably Ronald Reagan the everyday person was opaque, pedestrian, ignorant, a hollow man ? now incapacitated by Alzheimers. Yet, as President?Governor?Actor?Announcer ? Lifeguard Ronald Reagan became a creature of the American...
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