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Ronald Reagan: An Intellectual Biography David T. Byrne Hardcover Signed 2018 HC

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Condition	Tight binding, clean dust jacket.
Condition	Like New
Signed By	David Byrne
Signed	Yes
Book Series	Historical
Ex Libris	No
Narrative Type	Nonfiction
Original Language	English
Inscribed	Yes
Edition	First Edition
Vintage	No
Personalize	No
Era	2010s
Personalized	Yes
Features	Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture	United States
ISBN	9781640120037
Book Title	Ronald Reagan : an Intellectual Biography
Publisher	Potomac Books, Incorporated
Item Length	9 in
Publication Year	2018
Format	Hardcover
Language	English
Illustrator	Yes
Item Height	0.6 in
Author	David T. Byrne
Genre	Biography & Autobiography
Topic	Presidents & Heads of State
Item Weight	23.5 Oz
Item Width	6 in
Number of Pages	248 Pages

Hardcover, first edition from 2018. Signed in gold ink "To Dr. Stati, Best Wishes, David Byrne." SHIPS FREE!In this ambitious work David T. Byrne analyzes the ideas that informed Ronald Reagan’s political philosophy and policies. Rather than appraising Reagan’s personal and emotional life, Byrne’s intellectual biography goes one step further; it establishes a rationale for the former president’s motives, discussing how thinkers such as Plato and Adam Smith influenced him. Byrne points to three historical forces that shaped Reagan’s political philosophy: Christian values, particularly the concept of a universal kingdom of God; America’s firm belief in freedom as the greatest political value and its aversion to strong centralized government; and the appeasement era of World War II, which stimulated Reagan’s aggressive and confrontational foreign policy.Byrne’s account of the fortieth president augments previous work on Reagan with a new model for understanding him. Byrne shows how Reagan took conservatism and the Republican Party in a new direction, departing from the traditional conservatism of Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk. His desire to spread a “Kingdom of Freedom” both at home and abroad changed America’s political landscape forever and inspired a new conservatism that persists to this day.