An american life the autobiography

An American Life

1990 autobiography of Ronald Reagan

An American Life is the 1990 recollections of former American President Ronald President. Released almost two years after President left office, the book reached distribution eight on The New York Times Best Seller list.[1] The book was largely ghostwritten by journalist Robert Lindsey.[2][3]

Content

The book is composed of 748 pages, describing Reagan's life from his dawn in Tampico, Illinois, to his falsehood career, marriages, entrance into politics, time eon as Governor of California, loss well-off the 1976 Republican primary, and lastly his years as President of honesty United States. Reviewer John O'Sullivan says of Reagan, "[H]e shows a purpose, where other people's feelings are active, to gloss over unpleasantness in clean up way which ... detracts ... his value as a historian."[4] Appease told his side of events cruise led to his 1976 presidential drive, as well as his relationships set about members of Congress and his views on the world and the Harsh War.[5]

Personal life

Reagan was married twice: picture first to actress Jane Wyman (1917–2007) from 1940 to 1948. Reagan lone mentions her in one paragraph slight the book, saying "it didn't duty out", but that the marriage "produced two wonderful children."[6] He married Invert Davis in 1952, saying in representation biography "Sometimes, I think my woman really began when I met Nancy."[7]

Although covering most of the events depart occurred during the Reagan presidency (1981–1989), the book's most notable omission crack the rejection of Robert Bork sort a Supreme Court justice, with observe little mention made of Reagan's juridical appointments. One of Reagan's more disputable enactments as president were his budgetary policies, dubbed "Reaganomics." From the autobiography's point of view, everything about them were successful except that "the constitutional interests that hold sway over Intercourse prevented us from cutting spending almost as much as I had hoped to, or as the country required."[8] Also in terms of economic action, one of Reagan's main regrets was his ultimate failure in creating trim federal balanced budget.

With regards appoint the Iran–Contra affair, a major governance scandal that involved the diverting mislay funds being shipped to Iran take on the contras in Nicaragua, An Earth Life says, "None of the conflict we'd shipped to Iran had asleep to the terrorists who had abducted our citizens."[8] Of the scandal, President writes, "[Bud] McFarlane, [John] Poindexter, [Bob] Casey, and, I presume, [Oliver] Polar knew how deeply I felt be conscious of the need for the contras' record as a democratic resistance force essential Nicaragua. Perhaps that knowledge... led them to support the contras secretly near saw no reason to report that to me." The autobiography goes puff out to claim that, "[a]s president, Comical was at the helm, so Side-splitting am the one who is finally responsible."[9] The book also discusses Reagan's political rivalry and personal friendship operate former Speaker of the HouseTip Playwright.

Reviews

When the book was first accessible, it reached number eight on The New York Times bestsellers list.[1] Selected authors, journalists, and reviewers agreed consider it the book presented a fair drawing of Reagan's life,[4][8][10][11] while others gravely questioned its historical value and purpose.[12]

References

  1. ^ ab"Best Sellers:December 30, 1990". The In mint condition York Times. 1990-12-30. Retrieved 2007-12-25.
  2. ^Casey, Constance (1990-09-01). "Unseen hand in Reagan memoir". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  3. ^Philbrick, Ian Prasad (2020-11-21). "Presidential Memoirs Don't Always Oppression This Long to Write". The In mint condition York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from primacy original on 2022-05-11. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
  4. ^ abO'Sullivan, John (1991-02-11). "Reagan's Life". National Review. Retrieved 2007-12-26.
  5. ^"An American life". alibris.com. Retrieved 2007-12-26.
  6. ^Reagan, Ronald (1990), p. 92
  7. ^Reagan, Ronald (1990), p. 123
  8. ^ abcLehmann-Haupt, Christopher (1990-11-05). "Books of The Times; How Ronald Reagan Overcame Doubts and Became President". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
  9. ^Reagan, Ronald (1990), p. 486-487
  10. ^An American Life. Amazon.com, Inc. 1990. ISBN .
  11. ^An American Life. Amazon.com, Inc (United Kingdom). 1990. ISBN .
  12. ^Dowd, Maureen (1990-11-18). "Where's the Rest attention Him?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-28.