Gaynor's win showed
Reagan, Arizona's sitting secretary of state, struggled to distance herself from a series of elections-related blunders that occurred during her first term.
"The
Reagan story is the quintessential Illinois story," said Michael Murtagh, the college's vice president for institutional advancement.
America's triumph, along with
Reagan's relatively coherent ideology, has built up a consensus view that "love 'em" or "hate 'em," his was a significant presidency and that the 1980s was, as Doug Rossinow titles his book, The
Reagan Era.
As Ronald
Reagan often said, 'Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction." Conservatives believe in the possibility of progress, but as classical liberals they affirm the dignity of individuals and distrust social liberals' schemes that emphasize determinism and diminish individual freedom.
Her assistant, Allison Borio, said Mrs
Reagan died on Sunday at her home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, of congestive heart failure.
Critique: President Ronald
Reagan earned the name "The Great Communicator" while in office; his talent for connecting with Americans of all walks of life shined through his speeches, and to this day political hopefuls (and incumbents!) invoke his name.
But as Jacob Weisberg shows in Ronald
Reagan, his elegant, insightful biography,
Reagan's actual record diverges significantly from the way he presented himself--and from the posthumous conservative mythology about him.
Garrison presents a study of Ronald
Reagan's presidency with a specific focus on the role of
Reagan's imagination in shaping his public image and his ideals.
In The Rebellion of Ronald
Reagan, James Mann takes a synthesized view: it was some of this and some of that, and there was a fair degree of serendipity in the concurrent administrations of
Reagan and Gorbachev--rather like the serendipity of the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia in 1776.
The uses and abuses of Ronald
Reagan's record have greatly influenced arguments on foreign policy over the last 25 years.
After nearly six months of job searching,
Reagan was spotted by a local restaurant owner last Friday walking to a job interview for a cashier position at a local thrift store.