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most recent biographies of Ronald Reagan. Morgan is a professor of American History at University College London and a Fellow at Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute. He is also the author or editor of several books including “The Age of Deficits: Presidents Morgan’s writing style is crisp and straightforward but rarely elegant, descriptive or colorful. He is not a particularly engaging Reagan, the “big picture” is often hard to find or appreciate. Despite its ostensibly comprehensive coverage of Reagan’s life, this 333-page book is unlikely to remind most readers of a traditional cradle-to-grave biography. It is too lengthy to serve as an excellent “efficient” comprehensive biography…but for the most part it lacks the depth and detail available in most full-scale biographies of Reagan. readers new to his life will miss out on countless revealing stories and colorful details from his first seven decades. His presidency receives more deliberate coverage, but the author still fails to expose many of the fascinating behind-the-scenes details of Reagan’s It is not until the book’s final chapter that this biography’s considerable value is fully revealed. Here, in about twenty pages, Morgan reviews Reagan’s post-presidential life (and health issues) and as*esses his political legacy – within the context of his own Some of the value of Morgan’s appraisal may be due to the fact he is British and is more detached than most presidential biographers from the partisan American political scene. Morgan sees events from a third-party perspective and is able to remain remarkably objective throughout the book…giving Reagan credit for his many achievements while never failing to call him out for his failures and faults. The book has numerous individual moments of strength, of course, including a good explanation of the role of religion and faith in Reagan’s life, a useful summary of Nancy’s role in her husband’s political career, an interesting review of the turf wars which