Volume 28, Number 11 · June 25, 1981
Know Thy President
By Nicholas von Hoffman
Reagan the Man, the President
by Hedrick Smith, by Adam Clymer, by Leonard Silk, by Robert Lindsey, by Richard Burt
Macmillan, 186 pp., $9.95
The Real Reagan: What He Believes, What He Has Accomplished, What We Can Expect From Him
by Frank van der Linden
William Morrow, 288 pp., $11.95
Ronald Reagan: A Political Biography
by Lee Edwards
Nordland Publishing Co, 297 pp., $7.95 (paper)
Reagan in Pursuit of the Presidency—1980
by Doug Wead, by Bill Wead
Haven Books, 240 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Where's the Rest of Me? The Autobiography of Ronald Reagan
by Richard G. Hubler
Karz Publishers, 316 pp., $12.95
Ronald Reagan: His Life and Rise to the Presidency
by Bill Boyarsky
Random House, 205 pp., $12.95
The Future Under President Reagan
edited by Wayne Valis
Arlington House, 194 pp., $12.95
Reaganomics: Supply Side Economics in Action
by Bruce Bartlett
Arlington House, 229 pp., $14.95
Every president since Franklin Roosevelt has been put to the hundred-day test, so Ronald Reagan got measured by the same standard. Articles were duly written putting his first hundred days in the White House up against the fabled first one hundred days of the New Deal. Reagan regularly gets likened to FDR on other grounds also, for he too is now seen as a 'watershed' president, a figure leading and signifying major and abiding changes in the currents and patterns of our politics.
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