Book

Reagan

His Life and Legend

Max Boot

2024

W. W. Norton & Co.

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

The Dark Legacy of Reaganism

Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on February 19, 2025
Book Review

Honey, I Forgot to Duck

Reagan’s capacity to inhabit and generate legend stemmed from his own impulse to substitute pleasing fictions for inconvenient facts.

by Jackson Lears via London Review of Books on January 15, 2025
Book Review

Whose Ronald Reagan?

Fighting over the legacy of a conservative hero in the era of Trump.

by Susan B. Glasser via Foreign Affairs on October 22, 2024
Book Review

What If Ronald Reagan’s Presidency Never Really Ended?

Anti-Trump Republicans revere Ronald Reagan as Trump’s opposite—yet in critical ways Reagan may have been his forerunner.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on September 9, 2024

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Reagan and supporters at a campaign rally in 1984.

Reagan Resurgent?

Commentary on America’s 40th president often misses how the Gipper blended principles and pragmatism for a truly conservative statesmanship.

by Anthony Eames via Law & Liberty on December 4, 2024

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