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Transcripts For CSPAN QA 20151221

The final years and emerging legacy of Ronald Reagans. Why did you feel the need to write this book . What period of time did you write about . Craig i wrote about his 16 years after the presidency. Theres a lot of great books about the last years of president s. Wrote fdrs last year. William manchester of course wrote death of a president. No one had ever done a book on the reagan post presidency, and its an idea that came from my younger son, mitchell, who was researching on a previous book i did about reagan. I had all these binders in the kitchen. His job was to highlight every time reagans name was mentioned. He was 11yearsold at the time. He asked, dad, has anyone ever written a book about reagan after he was president . That was about five years ago, and the birth of last act. Brian was the most important moment in this book . Craig well, i interviewed dr. Roger peele, the head of the psychiatric unit at
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