Ronald Reagan.

Reagan as a serious intellectual: the case Dinesh made in 1997.

Dinesh served in the Reagan administration and wrote the first book to take Reagan seriously as a thinker rather than an actor who got lucky. The Cold War lessons of that era remain, for him, the most useful frame for the contest with China.

Reagan was underestimated by people who mistook simplicity of expression for simplicity of mind.

The books

1997 · Free Press

Ronald Reagan

How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader

Foreign Affairs

Cold War lessons, the China contest, the new multipolar alignments.

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History

Long-arc reads from someone who won't discuss politics without the context.

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Personal Story

Immigrant origins, Dartmouth, Reagan, the prosecution and pardon.

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