How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life
Author: Peter Robinson
List Price: $24.95
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ISBN: 0060523999
Publisher: Regan Books (05 August, 2003)
Sales Rank: 15,320
Average Customer Rating: 4.26 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 2 out of 5
Good start, fizzled at the end
This is a good story about how Ronald Reagan "the man" behaved as Ronald Reagan "the President." There are some interesting stories, amusing anecdotes and plenty of moral lessons. I enjoyed the first half of this book, but felt it really fizzled out in the middle and dragged on at the end. It was almost as if the author lost interest and had to fill some extra pages.I bought it after hearing Peter Robinson doing a radio interview and was really looking forward to a great read. Unfortunately, the anecdotes I enjoyed most I had already heard in his radio interview.
The title is the true story - How Ronald Reagan changed Peter Robinson's life. While interesting, not worth the money for hardcover. I wish I waited for it to come out in paperback or show up at the library.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Read this book!
I read an average of 2 books per week, and of the 100 or so I've read in the past year this is without a doubt my favorite. What I particularly enjoyed about this book is that it isn't another history lesson on how R.R. ended the cold war. It's a character study of two people, the President and the author, and how a young man is forever changed by his association with the President. There is some history in there, but it doesn't give that "text book" feel. This is a truly engrossing story and you will find it very difficult to put this book down. When you're finished you'll feel good about Ronald Reagan, Peter Robinson, your country and yourself. Read this book, and enjoy!
Rating: 2 out of 5
He changed my life too!
In the book description the author says:On February 6, 2001, my nine-year-old daughter happened to wander into the room during a television segment marking Ronald Reagan's ninetieth birthday. She watched for a moment. Then she turned to me and asked, "Dad, is that the President you worked for?" What answer could I give her? How could I make her see? I wanted my daughter to recognize that the world she inhabited was freer and more prosperous because of that old, old man on television. But I also wanted her to grasp my personal debt to him, to understand all that he taught me-how to work and how to relax, how to think and how to use words, how to be a good husband, how to approach life itself... I needed to tell my children how Ronald Reagan changed my life....
As an old proverb says: "Be careful what you wish for, it may come true." On September 11, 2001 we all realized how Ronald Reagan changed all of our lives. We unfortunately had an encounter with the Frankenstein that a few years before "that old, old man on television" gave birth to during his presidency.
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