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Ronald Reagan

A Life in Photographs
by Peter Robinson
Ronald Reagan: A Life in Photographs. Sterling. Feb. 2011. 224p. photogs. ISBN 9781402780578. $24.95. BIOG
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This large-format book is intended to showcase the life and career of the 40th President of the United States. The photographs dominate, with text and captions by former Reagan speechwriter and special assistant Robinson (fellow, Hoover Inst., Stanford Univ.; It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP). Included here are six of Reagan's speeches, mostly from his presidency, while the photographs go back to his childhood and cover his athletic youth and his Hollywood career, both of his marriages, and his full life in politics. A foreword by Newt and Callista Gingrich paints a glowing portrait, reinforcing that this book is a celebration of its subject rather than an objective popular photo-biography. A related photographic work is Pete Souza's Unguarded Moments: Behind-the-Scenes Photographs of President Ronald Reagan (1993).
VERDICT This book would be a good choice for many school and public libraries, but it is not for advanced students of Reagan and his presidency.
Reviewed by Danielle Fischer, C.W. Post-Long Island Univ., Brookville, NY , Dec 01, 2010
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