Chatter: Ronald Reagan Reassessed, with Max Boot

Chatter: Ronald Reagan Reassessed, with Max Boot

Council on Foreign Relations fellow, Washington Post columnist, and author of military history books Max Boot has just completed a definitive biography of Ronald Reagan, eleven years after starting his research and writing for it. He joined David Priess to talk all about Reagan, including his appeal as a biography subject, his World War II experience, his speech preparation, his turn from New Deal Democrat to right-wing Republican, his path to electoral politics, his management style, his optimism, his pragmatism, his influence on pop culture in the 1980s, his role in ending the Cold War peacefully, his movies, and more.


Works mentioned in this episode:


The book Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot


The movie Kings Row


The movie Bedtime for Bonzo


The movie Knute Rockne All American


The book The Unwinding by George Packer


The book Desert Star by Michael Connelly


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