Reagan to be honored across Europe Source: USA TODAY, 5-23-11 President Ronald Reagan gives a thumbs up to a crowd Jan. 20, 1981, while first lady Nancy Reagan waves from a limousine during the Inaugural Parade in Washington. CAPTION, AP Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom are joining in the year-long centennial [...]
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Reagan Centennial: Ronald Reagan to be honored across Europe
Posted by bonniekaryn on May 23, 2011
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Gil Troy: Reagan’s Magic Mandate Gave Americans Just what They Ordered
bY gIL tROY, 4-4-11 Amid the claims and counterclaims regarding Ronald Reagan’s 1980 electoral victory, one clarifying contradiction emerges. Yes, Reagan exaggerated, alleging a mandate for his Reagan Revolution which never existed. Yet, when Reagan implemented a more muscular, more flamboyantly patriotic, up-with-America, down-with-the-Communists foreign policy, he was doing what the American people hired him [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on April 4, 2011
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Del Quentin Wilber: ‘Rawhide Down’: The (almost) death of a president
Source: Politico, 3-11-11 A new book documents decisions to downplay the severity of Ronald Reagan’s wound. | AP Photo Close Ronald Reagan barely survived in 1981. A book out Tuesday paints a much direr picture of the president’s prognosis in the hours after John Hinckley shot him than the White House or his doctors acknowledged [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on March 11, 2011
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History Buzz: February 2011 Recap: Reagan Centennial — President’s Day — Civil War at 150
HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP By Bonnie K. Goodman Ms. Goodman is the Editor of History Musings. She has a BA in History & Art History & a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University. HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP IN FOCUS: [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on February 28, 2011
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Reagan Centennial: Gil Troy: The Nine Lives of Ronald Reagan
By Gil Troy, 2-6-11 Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s As we mark the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth, the tug of war over his legacy continues. Reagan’s popular image—and popularity—have fluctuated as wildly as the stock market. [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on February 6, 2011
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/gil-troy-the-nine-lives-of-ronald-reagan/
Julian Zelizer: The Reagan Centennial, Reagan the politician
Source: Politico, 2-6-11 Movements need leaders who are good at politics if they want to succeed. Nobody understood this more than Ronald Reagan. | AP Photo Close Politics is a dirty word in Washington. Movement activists, on the left and the right, hate when their party negotiates with the opposition and compromises on key issues. [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on February 6, 2011
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Laurence Reisman: Q&A with historian, presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley
Historian Brinkley uses research to opine on political questions such as did Reagan have Alzheimer’s while in the White House? Source: TC Palm, 2-1-11 Eric Parsons Douglas Brinkley, editor of the “The Reagan Diaries,” looks on during a book signing at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library May 21, 2007, in Simi Valley, Calif. The library [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on February 1, 2011
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/laurence-reisman-qa-historian-presidential-biographer-douglas-brinkley/
