Stories in His Own Hand

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The recent discovery of a trove of manuscripts handwritten by Ronald Reagan in the years just before his presidency—partially published in The New York Times bestseller Reagan, In His Own Hand—has dramatically revised our understanding of his political vision and acumen. Yet the scope of those Reagan manuscripts was not limited to just political and policy essays, Our 40th president alsó wrote a fascinating and never-before-seen set of stories—partly inspirational, partly heartwarming, partly sentimental, and all very deeply felt. Stories in His Own Hand offers a unique lens into the character of Ronald Reagan, through his tales about:
Women: the story of a deadly cobra and a brave woman reveals the natural superiority of the fairer sex.
Life and Death: a seven-year-old boy dying of leukemia demonstrates the immortal power of faith-
Relationships: a father's World War II letter to his soldier son never reaches the boy, but redeems them both-
His Youth: how he found his íirst... Tovább

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The recent discovery of a trove of manuscripts handwritten by Ronald Reagan in the years just before his presidency—partially published in The New York Times bestseller Reagan, In His Own Hand—has dramatically revised our understanding of his political vision and acumen. Yet the scope of those Reagan manuscripts was not limited to just political and policy essays, Our 40th president alsó wrote a fascinating and never-before-seen set of stories—partly inspirational, partly heartwarming, partly sentimental, and all very deeply felt. Stories in His Own Hand offers a unique lens into the character of Ronald Reagan, through his tales about:
Women: the story of a deadly cobra and a brave woman reveals the natural superiority of the fairer sex.
Life and Death: a seven-year-old boy dying of leukemia demonstrates the immortal power of faith-
Relationships: a father's World War II letter to his soldier son never reaches the boy, but redeems them both-
His Youth: how he found his íirst job, and what happened when he accidentally fired off a shotgun in a friend's attic.
And many other subjects, from virtues and values,
to race relations, to his favorité jokes.
Ronald Reagan loved to teli stories. Sometimes .he used them to break the ice, or to prove a point, but very often he used them to inspire, to uplift, and to remind his listeners of what matters most in life. Recently, in the archives of the Reagan Library, researcher Kiron Skinner unearthed a trove of handwritten Reagan manuscripts from the late 1970s, over 650 in all, which included somé price-less examples of Reagan's storytelling abilities. Stories in His Own Hand reproduces the best of these deeply personal anecdotes.
Skinner, along with longtime Reagan aides and scholars Annelise and Martin Anderson, has care-fully documented the extent of Reagan's manuscripts, which originated as radio transcripts. Earlier, in the bestselling Reagan, In His Own Hand, the editors compiled a broad rangé of Reagan's policy-oriented essays from this collection, showing an astonishing breadth of vision concerning nearly every issue he would face as president. Here they reveal a different Ronald Reagan: not the political but the personal man, not the executive but the teacher.
Here is Reagan on men and women, life and death, family and friends. Here is a man who loved to teli a story to make us all stop, listen, and think about what it means to be humán.
Kiron K. Skinner is an assistant professor of history and of political science at Carnegie Mellon University, and a Hoover Institution Research Fellow. She is alsó a Fellow in the Department of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal and National Interest. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Annelise Anderson has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1983. In 1980 she was a senior policy adviser to the presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan, and from 1981 to 1983 she served as Associate Director for Economics and Government with the Office of Management and Budget. She is the author of The Business of Organized Crime: A Cosa Nostra Family (1979), editor of Political Money: The New Prohibition (2000), and co-editor of Thinking About America: The United States in the I990s (1988). She earned her Ph.D. in business administra-tion from Columbia University.
Martin Anderson is the Keith and Jan Hurlbut Fellow at the Hoover Institution. After serving as a Special Assistant to Richárd Nixon, he was a senior policy adviser to the 1976 and 1980 presidential cam-paigns of Ronald Reagan, and served as chief domestic and economic policy adviser under President Reagan. He is the author of six previous books, including Revolution (1988) and Impostors in the Temple (1992). He earned his Ph.D. in industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Vissza