REAGAN: AMERICAN ICON
Book ID/图书代码： 06545016B87687
English Summary/英文概要： Ronald Reagan is one of the most important and arguably most successful presidents in modern American history. He is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity in the wake of the most miserable economic era since the 1930s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and doing much to bring about the late twentieth century shift to the right in American politics. In this book, Iwan Morgan presents the first thoroughly-researched biography of Reagan, based on original materials and first-hand interviews. He plots a chronological path through Reagan’s life beginning with his childhood and early years in Illinois, through his Hollywood career, his emergent Republicanism and his election as governor of California, before acceding to the presidency in 1981. In office, Morgan assesses Reagan’s economic and foreign policies, as well as his idealization of the constitution and his near-impeachment over the Iran-Contra affair."
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 里根可以说是美国历史上最重要、最成功的总统之一。他的主要功绩体现在使美国经济从20世纪30年代后的艰难岁月中走了出来，重新恢复繁荣，为冷战胜利奠定了基础，并为20世纪晚期美国政治右翼倾向做了诸多工作。本书中，作者基于原始资料和一手访谈信息，为大家呈现了第一部经过详细调查的里根传记。他以时间先后为线索，记录了里根的一生， 从他的童年开始，到伊利诺斯州的青少年时期，到他的好莱坞职业生涯，他萌发的共和主义思想，竞选加州州长，1981年当选美国总统之前……作者还评估了里根任职期间的经济和外交政策，以及他对宪法的理想和伊朗门事件。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：As one might expect from such an influential and controversial personality Ronald Regan has been the subject of much biography, running from the meticulous but essentially critical works of Lou Cannon to the bizarre biographical fantasy by Edmund Morris. Iwan Morgan’s new life, benefiting from the elapse of time, the fading of old resentments and the appearance of rival subjects of both admiration and disdain, stands every chance of emerging as the standard life. Morgan has brought to its writing formidable but also thoughtful and critical research and a lively style. His research has given him a sure grasp of Reagan’s improbable journey from small town Middle West, through Hollywood’s Golden Age into national and international politics. Morgan’s greatest virtue is his fairness. He does justice to Reagan’s authentic faith in the essential virtue of America and to the individual, non-ideological quality of his conservative faith. At the same time he is not afraid to point out the contradictions in Reagan’s beliefs, the limitations of his political credo and the occasional mistakes and absurdities of his political career. Wise, fair and witty, Iwan Morgan’s life of Reagan is likely to be accepted by both the admirers and the critics of the fortieth president as both trustworthy and readable. --Godfrey Hodgson, author of The Myth of American Exceptionalism and former Washington correspondent for The Observer
Iwan Morgan’s Reagan is a fast-paced narrative that is superbly organized and judiciously argued about the life and times of America’s 40th president. Before going elsewhere, both academics and general audiences should first read this exceptional volume as the introduction to this complex topic. --Irwin F. Gellman, author of The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon 1952-1961
Iwan Morgan has written a hugely valuable account of a highly consequential life. Reagan is engagingly written and exhaustively researched the grounding in archival sources adds real depth to the portrayal of Reagan the person, performer, governor and president. The book does credit to Morgan as a scholar but his erudition is consumed painlessly thanks to the elegance of his prose. Morgan’s assessment of Reagan is nuanced and refreshingly non-partisan, giving credit and finding fault where each is appropriately due. Readers will come away appreciating the intriguing complexity of the man, and the immense impact of his career.
Andrew Rudalevige, T.B. Reed Professor of Government, Bowdoin College
WOW! It’s all here --and I mean all of it -- in Iwan Morgan’s superb biography of America’s fortieth president. I would never have believed how much I didn’t know about a fellow Californian I first met in the spring of 1946. But when a distinguished historian with a wonderful way with words doubles as a prodigious researcher the pages are going to fly. Hey, the Gipper’s back. Enjoy the ride.’
Alex Butterfield, former Deputy Assistant to President Nixon
’Iwan Morgan’s highly intelligent and authoritative Reagan accomplishes the rare feat of elucidating President Reagan’s complex personal psychology, his core values and his economic and political policies. In this concise and fair-minded portrait, Morgan shows us how this optimistic and pragmatic man became a consequential president who not only represented his times, but helped steer the course of history in a conservative direction. Morgan does not shy away from exploring Reagan’s failures including his lack of empathy for AIDS patients and African-Americans.’
Will Swift, author of Pat and Dick: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage
About the Author/作者介绍： Iwan Morgan，伦敦大学学院美洲研究所美国计划主任，美国研究教授。2014年获颁英国美国研究协会荣誉奖学金，以表彰他在职业生涯中对该学科的贡献。著有《赤字时代：总统们和从卡特到布什的预算失衡》《尼克松和自由主义共识之外：自1965以来的美国政治史》。
Iwan Morgan is Professor of US Studies and Head of US Programmes at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He was awarded the British Association of American Studies Honorary Fellowship in 2014 in recognition of his contributions to the discipline over the course of his career. His publications include The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush; Nixon and Beyond the Liberal Consensus: A Political History of the United States since 1965.
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