This edition: Reagan: His Life and Legend - Max Boot in Conversation with Kai Bird
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Original tape date: September 24, 2024. First aired: October 14, 2024.From bestselling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait of Ronald Reagan, the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic presidency ushered in a transformative conservative era in American politics. Providing insights into "trickle-down economics," the Cold War's end, the Iran-Contra affair, and so much more, Boot (a one-time Republican policy adviser) reveals the complicated man behind the mythology in this definitive and compelling presidential biography. A columnist for The Washington Post and an acclaimed author of many books, he speaks about Reagan with Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus (the basis for the Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer) and executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
Guest List
Kai Bird Executive Director, The Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center
Max Boot Author, Reagan: His Life and Legend
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- TBA
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- Monday, April 7 - 2:00pm
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