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Title: A Different Drummer CD : Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan by Michael K. Deaver, Deaver Michael K. ISBN: 0-694-52458-1 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: 20 April, 2001 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (39 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Reagan Remembered
Comment: I grew up with Ronald Reagan. He was my president. Although I was 11 when he was elected, I consider him to have been the first president that I heard, noticed, watched. The image of a father figure was obviously shared by millions of Americans, and I guess the day when I began looking on him as my president, was when Hinckley fired his .22 caliber. I had arrived home from school and was outside playing basketball with friends. My mother came out and told me, and I remember missing my bedtime that night, up watching the latest news. I prayed for Reagan, I watched him, listened to his radio addresses, wrote to him, pulled for him, admired him.
Deaver's book brings back the reasons we all loved President Reagan. He was different. He did not rely upon polls, he was constant, unflappable, strong. At a time when the vernacular included phrases like "Iron Curtain" and "Arms Race", he comforted and protected us, and single-handedly dismantled the biggest threat we faced. Deaver lets us glimpse what we already knew to be true. His stories, although new and unknown to me, validate why I called Reagan MY president. I was at the National Republican Convention in New Orleans in August 1988 when he gave his farewell speech to the faithful. I was right up front, and as a 19 year old, I remember crying upon realizing that he was leaving public life. This book will remind you, too why we loved him.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lessons from the Master
Comment: For twenty years, Michael Deaver had the best job in the world (second only perhaps to Ronald Reagan himself): standing by the side of probably the most important, most inspiring leader of the American Century. A Different Drummer gives us a close-in look at our 40th President, and accomplishes what the biographers-of-record only struggled at: explaining Reagan the man.
For years, frustrated Reaganologists like Edmund Morris have told us Reagan's mind was too hard to penetrate. Getting "close" to the private man was very difficult for most people. That Reagan possesed a genius for leadership that hasn't quite been approximated is probably what made them try so hard. Deaver's central message is that Reagan was really a simple man who was utterly and completely confident in who he was, and in the greatness of his countrymen. This self-assuredness could explain his supposed lack of introspection so obsessed over by the historians. The outward self-pity of presidents like Johnson, Nixon, Carter and Clinton have made for abundant and fascinating psychological profiles of these men. Not so with Reagan. Reagan knew who he was, and had no time for self-doubt.
Regretably, Deaver's volume is all too slim. But his memories of Ronald Reagan are gripping, and will give you a more complete picture of the whole Reagan than will the works of the often confused historians.
Rating: 4
Summary: In the wake of Ronnie's death, indispensable
Comment: After the massive disappointment of Edmund Morris' "Dutch", I thought I would give up on outside accounts of the Reagan legacy. Mike Deaver's book, however, brought me out of the disappointment of "Dutch" and in this week of mourning, has brought this reader many smiles. Let not the slimness of this volume dissuade you: Deaver, having been close to Reagan from before the Governorship of California, understands his subject in a way that completely eluded Morris' bloated opus and what emerges from these pages is a picture of an introverted extrovert. One sees a complex Reagan - but where "Dutch" seemingly gives up and fails in trying to understand the complexity, "Drummer" seems to draw a picture of a man who simply wanted to share his very personal life with Nancy - and respects him for it.
I also salute Deaver's work for its assessment of Reagan as bringing about the end of the Cold War, for the little-trumpeted Reagan reaction (or lack thereof) to the shooting down of Korean Air flight 007, thereby isolating the Soviets further. Hopefully, history will follow Deaver in marking this as the non-shot that saved the world from a nuclear winter.
I highly recommend buying this book now; it will become _the_ definitive Reagan assessment in the years to come.
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Title: Nancy : A Portrait of My Years with Nancy Reagan by Michael K. Deaver ISBN: 0060087390 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan by Peggy Noonan ISBN: 0142001686 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan by NANCY REAGAN ISBN: 0375760512 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Ronald Reagan: An American Life by Ronald Reagan ISBN: 0743400259 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime by Lou Cannon ISBN: 1891620916 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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