Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All
Today's political scene looks nothing like it did thirty years
ago, and that is due mostly to Reagan's monumental reshaping of
the Republican party. What few people realize, however, is that
Reagan's revolution did not begin when he took office in 1980,
but in his failed presidential challenge to Gerald Ford in
1975-1976. This is the remarkable story of that historic
campaign-one that, as Reagan put it, turned a party of "pale
pastels" into a national party of "bold colors."
Featuring interviews with a myriad of politicos, journalists,
insiders, and observers, Craig Shirley relays intriguing,
never-before-told anecdotes about Reagan, his staff, the campaign,
the media, and the national parties and shows how Reagan, instead
of following the lead of the ever-weakening Republican party,
brought the party to him and almost single-handedly revived it.
