里根：他的生平与传奇

English | ISBN: 0871409445 | 2024 | EPUB | 880 pages | 56 MB

Max Boot, "Reagan: His Life and Legend"

"Reagan: His Life and Legend aims to be the definitive biography, and it succeeds. It’s a thoughtful, absorbing account. It’s also a surprising one." ―Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker

Named one of the "Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall" by NPR and the New York Times

Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician―America’s fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography.

In this “monumental and impressive” biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president’s aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot provides “the best biography of Ronald Reagan to date” (Robert Mann).

The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger. And contextualizing Reagan’s life against American history, Boot re-creates the world in which Reagan transitioned from local Iowa sportscaster to budding screen actor.

The world of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s would prove significant, not only in Reagan’s coming-of-age in such classics as Knute Rockne and Kings Row but during the twilight of his film career, when he played opposite a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo, and then his eventual emergence as a television host of General Electric Theater, which established his bona fides as one of the leading conservative voices of the time. Indeed, the leap to California governor in 1966 seemed almost preordained, in which Reagan became a bellwether for a nation in the throes of a generational shift.

Reagan’s 1980 presidential election augured a shift that continues into this century. Boot writes not as a partisan but as a historian seeking to set the story straight. He explains how Reagan was an ideologue but also a supreme pragmatist who signed pro-abortion and gun control bills as governor, cut deals with Democrats in both Sacramento and Washington, and befriended Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. A master communicator, Reagan revived America’s spirits after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. But Boot also shows how Reagan was armored in obliviousness. He traces Reagan’s opposition to civil rights over forty years, reveals how he neglected the exploding AIDS epidemic, and details how America experienced a level of income inequality not seen since the Gilded Age.

With its revelatory insights, Reagan: His Life and Legend is no apologia, depicting a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns. Providing fresh examinations of “trickle-down economics,” the Cold War’s end, the Iran-Contra affair, as well as a nuanced portrait of Reagan’s family, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades. 53 photographs

英文|国际标准图书编号：0871409445|2024|EPUB | 880页|56 MB 马克斯·布特，《里根：他的一生与传奇》 “《里根：他的生平与传奇》旨在成为权威传记，并取得了成功。这是一部深思熟虑、引人入胜的传记。这也是一部令人惊讶的传记。”——丹尼尔·伊梅尔瓦尔，《纽约客》 被美国国家公共电台和《纽约时报》评为“今秋必读的非小说类书籍”之一 中西部之子、电影明星和迷人的政治家——美国第四十任总统在这本扣人心弦、深刻的修正主义传记中步入了三维生活。 在这本“不朽而令人印象深刻”的传记中，杰出的政治专栏作家马克斯·布特阐明了罗纳德·里根不为人知的故事，揭示了神话背后的人。通过对这位第四十任总统的100多名助手、朋友和家人的采访，以及数千份新获得的文件，布特提供了“迄今为止罗纳德·里根最好的传记”（罗伯特·曼）。 故事不是从星光熠熠的好莱坞开始的，而是从中西部的一个小镇伊利诺伊州开始的，里根于1911年出生在那里，父母是基督信徒的忠实门徒内尔·克莱德·威尔逊和苦苦挣扎的酗酒推销员杰克·里根。Boot生动地描绘了一个英俊的年轻人，实际上是一个备受赞誉的救生员，他的早期成功反映了霍雷肖·阿尔杰的成功。通过将里根的生活与美国历史联系起来，布特重新创造了里根从爱荷华州当地体育解说员转变为崭露头角的银幕演员的世界。 20世纪30年代至50年代的好莱坞世界将被证明是重要的，不仅在里根在《克努特·罗克内》和《国王街》等经典电影中成长，而且在他电影生涯的暮年，当时他在《邦佐的睡前》中与一只黑猩猩演对手戏，然后他最终成为通用电气剧院的电视主持人，这确立了他作为当时主要保守派声音之一的诚意。事实上，1966年跃升为加州州长似乎是命中注定的，里根成为了一个处于代际转变阵痛中的国家的领头羊。 里根1980年的总统选举预示着一场持续到本世纪的转变。布特的写作不是作为一个党派，而是作为一个寻求澄清事实的历史学家。他解释了里根是如何成为一个理论家，但也是一个最高的实用主义者，他作为州长签署了支持堕胎和枪支管制的法案，与萨克拉门托和华盛顿的民主党人达成了协议，并与米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫交朋友以结束冷战。里根是一位沟通大师，在越南战争和水门事件的创伤之后，他重振了美国的精神。但布特也展示了里根是如何被遗忘的。他追溯了里根40多年来对民权的反对，揭示了他是如何忽视艾滋病疫情的爆发的，并详细介绍了美国是如何经历自镀金时代以来从未见过的收入不平等的。 凭借其启示性的见解，《里根：他的一生和传奇》并不是一部道歉书，它描绘了一个拥有善恶世界观的人，这种世界观源于他的道德教育和好莱坞西部片。这本权威传记对“涓滴经济学”、冷战结束、伊朗门事件进行了新的审视，并对里根家族进行了细致的描述，是近几十年来最引人注目的总统传记。53张图片

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