Reagan oli ainuke sirge seljaga Lääne poliitik, kes võttis eesmärgiks mitte kommunismi ohjeldamise, vaid selle hävitamise.
Ja ta tegi seda.
Ja ma olen talle selle eest tänulik.
Thank you, Dutch!

Paul Kengor, a professor at Grove City College, has written a number of books, and I've enjoyed each one of them. He's excellent at writing biographic sketches of people, backed by good academic work, but doing an excellent job of discussing the actual person, as a person, and what made them tick. This is his best book yet, because his scholarship is just getting stronger and more thorough, and he's getting better and better at weaving it in to his personal biographic sketches.

This one is heavy on the "what" and the "how" and then explaining "why" as part of the fabric of the story. He does the most thorough job of explaining what Reagan's foreign policy was, and how he went about doing it, that I've read up to this point, including in many books written by people that were closer to him at the time. Part of this is because there have been a lot of declassified documents, both in the US and in the USSR and it's client states, but part of it is just because Kengor is better at weaving these themes together in a seamless narrative.

Bottom line is this book is a real winner. Anyone interested in foreign policy of the Reagan Presidency, or any facet thereof, would benefit greatly from reading this book.

Ronald Reagan was the last real politician. This kind of men are no longer in charge of things.