Reagan

""[I]mpeccably researched and thoroughly compelling… thanks to Boot’s enormously readable and scrupulously honest book, we know more than ever before about this complicated, frustrating and yet oddly magnetic man."" -- Dominic Sandbrook - The Sunday Times ""Intelligent, elegant and engrossing"" -- Andrew Preston - Literary Review ""[Reagan’s] remoteness has frustrated previous biographers. But Mr Boot responds with doggedness, evoking Reagan’s early life in small-town Illinois, college years and early forays into politics. Mr Boot is a gifted enough writer to prevent this accretion of detail from becoming a slog, and Reagan’s apparent lack of an inner life becomes a benefit: it keeps the focus on Reagan’s actions, which matter far more than a politician’s thoughts or feelings."" -- The Economist ""[A] generous yet sharply perceptive biography"" -- Peter Conrad - The Observer ""[Reagan] aims to be the definitive biography, and it succeeds. It’s a thoughtful, absorbing account."" -- Daniel Immerwahr - The New Yorker ""A judicious biography. "" -- Jacob Heilbrunn - The New York Times ""[A] magisterial new biography… The first important Reagan biography of the post-Reagan era"" -- Geoffrey Kabaservice - The Washington Post ""This is a timely and fascinating book, just what we need to understand, and perhaps transcend, our current age of political paralysis and polarization. Understanding Reagan is key to understanding our politics today."" -- Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk and Steve Jobs ""This comprehensive biography—relying on a decade of research, unearthed records, and revealing interviews—separates man from myth, offering a compelling and clear-eyed portrait of this consequential president and the country he shaped."" -- Karen Tumulty, author of The Triumph of Nancy Reagan