Education of Ronald Reagan The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism

Name: Education of Ronald Reagan The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism
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ISBN: 9780231138611

ISBN-10: 023113861X

ISBN-13: 9780231138611

Edition: 2008

Authors: Thomas Evans

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In October 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a televised speech in support of Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. "The Speech," as it has come to be known, helped launch Ronald Reagan as a leading force in the American conservative movement. However, less than twenty years earlier, Reagan was a prominent Hollywood liberal, the president of the Screen Actors Guild, and a fervent supporter of FDR and Harry Truman. While many agree that Reagan's anticommunism grew out of his experiences with the Hollywood communists of the late 1940s, the origins of his conservative ideology have remained obscure. Based on a newly discovered collection of private papers as well as interviews and corporate…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 8/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




Background



A New Dealer to the Core



Politics: War by Different Means



A Postgraduate Course in Political Science



Boulwarism



The Plant Tour



Schools, Classes, and Trains



An Apprenticeship for Public Life



The Campaign



Allies



The Speech



Two Unions



The Art of Negotiation



Encouraging an Increasing Majority of Citizens



The Campaign Continues



The Presidential Bug



A President's Vision


Appendix


Speeches of Reuther, Boulware, and Reagan


Walter P. Reuther, Labor and the Community


Lemuel Boulware, Salvation Is Not Free


Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing ("The Speech")


Notes


References


Acknowledgments


Index