Full name: Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future

Author: Will Bunch Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, History, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781416597629 9781416597636 141659762X 1416597638

Nearly two decades after leaving office and four years after his death, the legend of Ronald Reagan looms larger than ever over America's political life. Nowhere has that been more evident than in the 2008 presidential campaign, with Republicans - especially presumptive nominee John McCain - appearing to run more aggressively for the Reagan mantle than for the White House itself, and with even Democrats debating how to add some Reagan lustre to their progressive platform. It will build upon existing volume of works about the Reagan presidency, more contemporary news accounts and the work of the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, with interviews with key Reagan scholars and contemporaries, to produce a narrative arc that breaks down the key myths about Reagan and his record, the intentional creation of these myths in the 1990s and 2000s and their role in 21st Century politics, including the Bush presidency, the 2008 election, and beyond Similar books: Legacy by Rich Lowry Sleepwalking Through History by Haynes Johnson Hillary's America by Dinesh D'Souza American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens The Final Days by Barbara Olson The Selling of the President 1968 by Joe McGinniss When Presidents Lie by Eric Alterman Rewriting History by Dick Morris Unlimited Access by Gary Aldrich Before the Storm by Rick Perlstein Landslide by Jane Mayer Double Down by Mark Halperin Landslide by Jonathan Darman Shattered by Jonathan Allen America the Beautiful by Ben Carson Fear by Bob Woodward Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne The Amateur by Edward Klein No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin