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conversations.value: a title for a book about Reagan's, Reagan, America's with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Leaders & Notable People
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Ronald Reagan'
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Ronald Reagan about U.S, Reagan, Oxfords with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Leaders & Notable People.. Start with the sentence 'The hands-down most controversial president in recent memory receives notably evenhanded treatment by the author in Oxfords series of brief lives of the U'.
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conversations.value: The hands-down most controversial president in recent memory receives notably evenhanded treatment by the author in Oxfords series of brief lives of the U.S. chief executives. Theres no getting around the erstwhile actors habit of borrowing from his screen experience for ostensibly true exempla for his inspirational speeches. But that same experience guaranteed that he could react winningly to stress, and he won the nations admiration for the humor and grit with which he treated the assassination attempt on him early in his first term. His political habit of campaigning for policiestax and spending cuts, shrinking the federal government, prohibiting abortionthat he very quickly abandoned presents difficulties for his right-wing encomiasts, in particular. Reagan was much more pragmatic and prone to compromise than his reputation then and now allows, and that served him especially well in his dealings with Gorbachevs faltering Soviet Union. A fine stepping-stone to the vast literature on Reagan, pro and con, the authors summary belongs in virtually all U.S. libraries. --Ray Olson