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If you don't like being spoonfed only what your professors and the media want you to hear, you should read books like this. Reagan made a comment or two about each day before bed and this book puts you right into his shoes. You'll get a sense of what it's like to be the President, how human the making of history really is when it happens and the strong, determined mindset of one of the 20th century's greatest leaders.
Wonderful.
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What a fantastic book; written by President Reagan at the time history was being made. They say hindsight is 20 20 but it's astonishing how spot on he was with his comments, made without the benefit of looking back.
It's very enlightening to see what his thoughts were as history was being made and even the mundane or trivial things take on greater meaning when judged by the context of the present day.
Reagan kept pretty good notes and they're all here. In addition, there are quite a few color photos to put faces to the various people he talks about.
If you are interested in presidential history and in his motives i highly recommend this book!
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I gave this book to my aunt who is 89 years young. She reports back to me that she loved it. She read it in 3 days.
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This book gives you insight into the thoughts of a great American during a period of recent history that was so vital to our nation and the world.
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I'm not quite sure what to say about this book. I got the abridged version, which was quite brief, and I think it was a little too scarce. That being said, it did give me a relatively decent insight into what the man was like. Being that I was still in diapers when Reagan took office, I have no personal memories of him and this is really my first introduction to him other than what I have heard in the news or through word of mouth.
It seems to me that the man was not unintelligent, yet there was a certain simplicity to his thinking which is exactly what endeared him to many, yet frustrated others. There were a few examples of this that were actually laugh out loud funny. When writing about the assassination attempt, he earnestly says, "getting shot hurts." Or when describing a certain economic report, he exclaims "just got the latest assessment of the economy, it's bad!" He comes across as a fundamentally decent man, though one with little tolerance for opposing viewpoints. We also learn exactly what he thought about issues like the Iran-Contra scandal, the air traffic controllers strikes, relations with Russia, Israel, etc. We also learn how important his faith, and his wife Nancy were to him. All in all, this is a decent book, but if you really want more substance you should probably go with the unabridged version.
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