What's A Good Biography of Ronald Reagan

but, yeah, the Spitz one is solid. It's also the first one to address his immediate post-presidency years rotting in Carmel office space or whatever: walking to the park, realizing he needed to carry money for the first time in his life.

Thanks for the recommendations, Alfred! I'd do my own research, but the data stream is so clogged with eagle-clad rubbish that it's difficult to find decent material.

I'm in a Cold War frame of mind as far as my reading lately, thanks for the help.

not a fan of the morris one, boringly enough-- the insights it purports to need the weird fictional armature for are the same insights everybody else manages without it (namely "this guy's kinda off, huh")

lou cannon's stuff on him is excellent

have not read garry wills' book but the reagan material in nixon agonistes is good (+ beautifully written)

still the sections of the invisible bridge about his childhood + hollywood are prob my fave stuff on the subject-- however not sure how conveniently they can be extricated from the interwoven narrative about every newspaper headline of the 1970s.

This dude was so weird:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9nFajZtWpE

Surprised there's been no mention of J.G. Ballard's 1968 short story Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan

Oh my, too bad my library days are behind me, I would track that down.