Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician―America’s fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography. From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of Ronald Reagan, the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservati...(展开全部)

理查德·里夫斯（Richard Reeves），知名传记作家，美国南加州大学安嫩伯格传播学院教授，某报业联盟的专栏作家。他写过十多本书，大多是关于美国政治人物的传记，包括《肯尼迪：权力日记》、《尼克松：孤独的白宫主人》、《里根：想象的胜利》等。他凭借《肯尼迪：权力日记》在1993 年获得《时代周刊》年度非虚构类最佳图书奖、《华盛顿月刊》年度图书奖。1998 年，他因为在理解美国政治方面所做出的杰出贡献而获得由美国政治学协会颁发的“凯里· 麦克威廉斯奖”，同年获得美国国家报刊专栏作家协会颁发的终身成就奖。他的电视电影曾经荣获艾美奖、杜邦—哥伦比亚奖和皮迪博奖等奖项。

Richard Reeves's acclaimed account of a presidency solves the puzzle of Ronald Reagan -- a man of limited breadth and knowledge who was perhaps the most effective superpower president. Using the techniques he employed in his bestselling books on Presidents Kennedy and Nixon, Reeves takes us inside Reagan's Oval Office, where we find a charismatic, crafty, focused politician. A...(展开全部)

This book offers a careful examination of the politics of social policy in an era of austerity and conservative governance. Focusing on the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Pierson provides a compelling explanation for the welfare state's durability and for the few occasions where each government was able to achieve significant cutbacks. The programmes of...(展开全部)

This book offers a careful examination of the politics of social policy in an era of austerity and conservative governance. Focusing on the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Pierson provides a compelling explanation for the welfare state's durability and for the few occasions where each government was able to achieve significant cutbacks. The programmes of...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Beginning in 1982, according to the author, then President Ronald Reagan and his senior advisers mapped out a systematic strategy to hasten the demise of the Soviet Union by attacking its fundamental economic and political weaknesses. In a convincing, startling expose that reads like a spy thriller, Schweizer ( Friendly Spies ) draws on interviews with Ca...(展开全部)