"Wes" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote:


Reagan will always be an enigma to me, no matter how much I try to read
about him. To me, and to a lot of other people at the time, the B-movie
actor facade never let down. It was like trying to read him through a
piece
of opaque glass. We knew what we were seeing wasn't real but I could never
tell what *was* real. And the only people who knew, I'm convinced, are the
people who really knew him when he wasn't in front of a camera. The only
time the rest of us ever saw him, of course, was when he *was* in front of
a
camera.

I have a hunch the man in front of the camera was much more real than most
other politicians.


Did you read "The Reagan Diaries"? Opinion?

No. I read _An American Life_. I'd like to read the other accounts of those
years, especially the straight histories by Cannon, etc., before taking on
another biographical book.

--
Ed Huntress