Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All.* One of the season's most exciting political books is Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All (Nelson Current, 417 pp., $25.99), by Craig Shirley Craig Shirley is President and CEO of Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, the public relations, marketing, and government affairs firm he originally founded in 1984. The firm has become internationally recognized over the years among public opinion leaders and the national media with . Many chapters in the Reagan story have become worn through repetition; not so his daring attempt in 1976 to unseat incumbent president Gerald Ford. Reagan's insurgency against the GOP Establishment, and against the entrenched en·trench also in·trench v. en·trenched, en·trench·ing, en·trench·es v.tr. 1. To provide with a trench, especially for the purpose of fortifying or defending. 2. ideology of mainstream liberalism, could have been the last gasp of the 1964 Goldwater forces; it proved, instead, to be the birth pangs birth pang n. 1. One of the repetitive pains occurring in childbirth. Often used in the plural. 2. birth pangs Difficulty or turmoil associated with a development or transition: of the mainstream conservatism that would prevail in America for decades to come. Craig Shirley is well known as a talented political operative; he shows himself in this suspenseful book to be, as well, a skillful skill·ful adj. 1. Possessing or exercising skill; expert. See Synonyms at proficient. 2. Characterized by, exhibiting, or requiring skill. and engaging writer. |
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