Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Early Years Chapter 3 The Communist Threat Chapter 4 The "Encroaching" Federal Government Chapter 5 Family and Friends Chapter 6 Intellectuals Chapter 7 The Journey and its Meaning
Edward M. Yager is associate professor of political science at Western Kentucky University.
Ronald Reagan’s Journey is an important book, a significant
addition to our growing knowledge of Ronald Reagan.
*Martin Anderson, Keith and Jan Hurlbut Senior Fellow, Hoover
Institution, Stanford University*
Everyone knows that Ronald Reagan started as a 'New Deal Democrat'
and ended as a conservative Republican. But what, exactly, does
that mean? And how did it happen? In Ronald Reagan’s Journey,
Edward Yager answers those questions in a systematic, scholarly
fashion for the first time. He fills an important gap in our
understanding of one of the most important presidents of the
twentieth century.
*Andrew E. Busch, Claremont McKenna College and author of Reagan?s
Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the
Right*
The period 1945-62 was a critical stage in the
political-ideological development of Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan,
the 1980s president, cannot be understood without understanding his
transformation in this period. Reagan's life was a journey-a series
of journeys; yet, the journey he traveled from 1945-62 was one of
the most important of those journeys, and also one of the most
neglected, until this very important book. This was the sojourn
that set Reagan upon the course that took him to the
presidency.This is a unique, fair, non-partisan, balanced, and
generally valuable work that stands apart in the vast Reagan
literature-a crucial contribution to the field. The book is
consistently insightful and well-written. It is sophisticated,
nuanced, careful,comprehensive, balanced, and thoughtful. Yager has
done a superb job..
*Paul Kengor, Grove City College and author of God and Ronald
Reagan: A Spiritual Life*
The period 1945-62 was a critical stage in the
political-ideological development of Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan,
the 1980s president, cannot be understood without understanding his
transformation in this period. Reagan's life was a journey-a series
of journeys; yet, the journey he traveled from 1945-62 was one of
the most important of those journeys, and also one of the most
neglected, until this very important book. This was the sojourn
that set Reagan upon the course that took him to the
presidency.
This is a unique, fair, non-partisan, balanced, and generally
valuable work that stands apart in the vast Reagan literature-a
crucial contribution to the field. The book is consistently
insightful and well-written. It is sophisticated, nuanced, careful,
comprehensive, balanced, and thoughtful. Yager has done a superb
job.
*Paul Kengor, Grove City College and author of God and Ronald
Reagan: A Spiritual Life*
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