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The book is easy to read with lots of footnotes to explain the text further. I was not as politically astute back then and reading the book gave me more insight to politics than I had ever thought during that time. I'm not finished with the book but, so far I've learned many things about Reagan that I never knew or even heard of - as I did of other politicians. I'm enjoying it...more than the other Killing books by O'Reilly, except the one on Kennedy.
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Every O'Reilly bio has been a page turner. Today is the day to read the Reagan bio. He was amazing in a couple of ways. And I didn't know that until I read this. He understood how to deal w the Soviets. He hated communism and socialism. I didn't know his intense hatred of communism was born out of the labor battles during his SAG days. He was an amazing speaker; quite an actor thru his speeches. The relationship he had with his wife was... amazing. It seems he let his wife run the White House thru her use of fortune tellers. Amazing, he apparently walked thru the second term thru in cloud of dementia. And the Iran scandal. A man who refuses to negotiate with terrorists, arms them. I learn so much reading these biographies, but the take away with this book was the barbarism of terrorists.
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Unlike many biographies, this book tells the whole story. It includes his failings as well as successes. It is very easy to read! From cover to cover, the style of writing keeps drawing you in. I believe this book should be required reading for the general population in order to understand the 1980's and how we are affected to this day by the events of those days. I highly recommend "Killing Reagan!"
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Even though I lived through these years, I didn't remember a lot of what went on since I was busy.
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This is a great read on the favorite POTUS of my lifetime. Covers a lot of things that I did not know prior. Makes you wonder about Secret Service action on day of shooting
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