Must Watch TV: Driscoll and Hayward on Reagan’s Rise
So there Ed was, just knocking around his palatial Silicon Graffiti studios, no doubt brainstorming his next miniature masterpiece, when renowned author Steven Hayward dropped by. Well, when you have a television studio and a best-selling biographer of one of the greatest Presidents in history, what can you do but tape a pretty darned good interview?
Here is some of what they discussed:
- Why it took eight years to get this second volume out after the first volume hit the streets in 2001.
- The shape of the economy Reagan inherited, (which I explored in my review of the first volume in this early Blogcritics post) and how the Reagan administration turned it around.
- How Reagan’s actions during the Air Traffic Controllers’ strike reverberated as far as the Soviet Union.
- How prepared Reagan was when he took office in 1981? (With a cameo from Kiron Skinner, who edited Reagan In His Own Hand, the collection of op-eds and radio scripts the Gipper wrote in the 1970s
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- In the final analysis, was there, as initially promised, a Reagan Revolution? And if so, what was it?
Watch the whole thing.
Hayward’s book are still very available. They’re on my list of books to buy and I recommend them to you as well.
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