Short takes: Reagan.(books about Ronald Reagan)(Book review)

At Reagan's Side: Insiders' Recollections from Sacramento to the White House. Rowman & Littlefield. 2009. c.280p, ed. by Stephen F. Knott & Jeffrey L. Chidester. bibliog, index. ISBN 978-0-7425-6625-5. $44.95. HIST

Whatever Ronald Reagan achieved during his political career, he did not achieve it alone. Knott (national security studies, U.S. Naval War Coll.) and Chidester (Miller Ctr. of Public Affairs, Univ. of Virginia) have put the focus on Reagan's associates, presenting excerpts from oral histories gathered by the Ronald Reagan Oral History Project, overseen by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, in cooperation with the Reagan …