![]() ![]() Reagan is based on archival sources not available to previous biographers and draws as well on dozens of interviews with surviving members of Reagan’s administration. In his talk at Roosevelt House, Brands will discuss Reagan’s life and presidency, explaining how the confident force of Reagan’s personality and the unwavering nature of his beliefs enabled him to engineer a conservative revolution in American politics and play a crucial role in ending communism in the Soviet Union. Brands, author of the bestselling Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, turns his attention to Ronald Reagan, whom Brand argues was one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a true peer to FDR. ![]() In his latest book, prizewinning historian H.W. ![]()
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