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The peacemaker.(SHELF LIFE)
"WHY are you doing this?" a political consultant asked Ronald Reagan in a quiet moment of the 1980 campaign. "Why do you want to be president?" Reagan's answer was simple, surprising, and unhesitating: "To end the Cold War. There has to be a way, and it's time."
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In The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism (Regan, 432 pp., $29.95), Paul Kengor makes clear just how central the defeat of the Soviet Union was to Reagan's personal project. Kengor, the author of biographies of Reagan and George W. Bush that focused on the two men's religious attitudes and practices, here trains his eye on the Main Event in Reagan's public ...
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