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Did Ronald Reagan Pave the Way for Donald Trump?
In his new biography, Max Boot reckons with the president who was once his hero
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Did Ronald Reagan Pave the Way for Donald Trump?
In his new biography, Max Boot reckons with the president who was once his hero and another who led him away from the Republican Party.
Nancy and Ronald Reagan in 1964.Credit...Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
On this day in 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois. Reagan went on to fame as a Hollywood actor, and as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
“Reagan is described as 'delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique'.”
― H.W. Brands, Reagan: The Life
― H.W. Brands, Reagan: The Life
In his new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys with sweep and vigor 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. Reagan shut down the age of liberalism, Brands shows, and ushered in the age of Reagan, whose defining principles are still powerfully felt today. Reagan follows young Ronald Reagan as his ambition for ever larger stages compelled him to leave behind small-town Illinois to become first a radio announcer and then that quintessential public figure of modern America, a movie star. When his acting career stalled, his reinvention as the voice of The General Electric Theater on television made him an unlikely spokesman for corporate America. Then began Reagan’s improbable political ascension, starting in the 1960s, when he was first elected governor of California, and culminating in his election in 1980 as president of the United States. READ an excerpt here:http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/220029/reagan/
Reagan
By Max Boot
This elegant biography of the 40th president stands out for its deep authority and nimble style. Boot, a historian and foreign policy analyst, grew up idolizing Ronald Reagan, but after a decade of interviews and research, he finds himself asking whether his onetime hero paved the way for Donald Trump, the man whose ascent to power led Boot to abandon the right. The book is a landmark work that shows how Reagan emerged from his New Deal roots to become a practiced Red baiter and racist dog whistler before settling into the role of the optimistic all-American elder statesman. “It is no exaggeration,” Boot writes, “to say that you cannot fully comprehend what happened to America in the 20th century without first understanding what happened to Ronald Reagan.” Read our review.
自由是很脆弱的，也不過就是一代人的時間就可以使它徹底消失。自由不是理當代代相傳的，自由是每一代人都必須為之持續奮鬥、捍衛的。因為，自由只會給人一次機會。享受過自由又失去的人，會再也無法重溫自由。
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not our by inheritance, it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.
（蔡英文總統今天演講裡引述的雷根總統名言，出自他1967年第一次當選加州州長的就職演說。）
Nancy Reagan will perhaps be best remembered for her loyalty to her husband. She became fiercely protective of him after a 1981 assassination attempt, and stood by him as Alzheimer's disease overtook him. http://abcn.ws/1TXZSP4
【國際新聞】「沒有南西，就不會有雷根州長、更不會有雷根總統。」她是雷根在政途上最親密的夥伴和顧問，她個子嬌小，外表優雅，但個性頗強，且愛好華麗服飾，作風高調；她愛過問白宮事務，又深信占星術......
【圖輯】南西雷根逝世，享壽94歲—為什麼她是最具爭議性的美國第一夫人？ - The News Lens 關鍵評論網
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A new biography of Ronald Reagan by H.W. Brands argues that his achievements were comparable to those of Franklin D. Roosevelt http://econ.st/1dAiUIZ
The great storyteller’s story
Reagan: The Life. By H.W. Brands. Doubleday; 805 pages; $35. MORE than a decade after his death, Ronald Reagan still divides people. American conservatives revere...
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Ronald Reagan still divides people. American conservatives revere him as practically a demigod. He shrank the state, rescued the economy and won the cold war; all Republican candidates must pay homage. The left dismisses him as malign and moronic—a B-movie actor who floated into the White House on an updraft of phoney charm, a man who snoozed during meetings, blew up the deficit and propped up unsavoury third-world despots from Argentina to Zaire.http://econ.st/1DGIJvJ
The great storyteller’s story
Reagan: The Life. By H.W. Brands. Doubleday; 805 pages; $35. MORE than a decade after his death, Ronald Reagan still divides people. American conservatives revere...
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更新時間 2011年7月4日, 格林尼治標準時間13:33
羅納德·里根在1981到1989年間擔任美國總統
為紀念美國已故前總統里根（Ronald Reagan）誕辰百年，一尊10英尺高的里根銅像周一（7月4日）在倫敦揭幕。
英國外交大臣威廉·黑格（William Hague）和美國前國務卿賴斯女士（Condoleezza Rice）一道在美國駐倫敦大使館出席了揭幕儀式。這尊造價100百萬美元的里根銅像是為期一年的紀念里根誕辰100週年活動的一部分。組織者是羅納德·里根總統基金。
在倫敦的里根銅像揭幕之前，波蘭城市克拉科夫、匈牙利首都布達佩斯和捷克首都布拉格也分別舉行了里根銅像揭幕儀式。
政治遺產
里根總統基金會稱，這些活動是「保護和促進里根總統政治遺產的一部分努力」。羅納德·里根在1981年到1989年間擔任美國總統。他於2004年去世，享年93歲。
里根總統在促進冷戰結束方面所做出的貢獻也被刻在他的銅像的基座上。那是英國前首相撒切爾夫人的一句名言：「羅納德·里根在不發一槍的情況下贏得了冷戰。」
為了承認他對冷戰結束的貢獻，里根銅像前還安置了一小段柏林牆。
曾經被稱為里根「政治知音」（political soulmate）的撒切爾夫人雖然受到邀請出席周一的揭幕儀式，但她因為年邁多病無法親自參加。
里根銅像將落戶於倫敦市中心的美國駐英大使館前的格羅夫納廣場（Grosvenor Square），與之遙相呼應的還有美國前總統艾森豪威爾和羅斯福的雕像。
大約有兩千名來賓出席了周一的揭幕儀式。
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