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about the book. host: i have to disagree. as someone who love this man , i read the book and was delighted to think i would be able to read and talk to you about ronald reagan. millions of americans have appreciation for his true greatness. he continues to inspire. i got the sense that you are undermining and demeaning his true greatness by throwing his stuff that is irrelevant to the and suggesting he was not really with it. he tells us all of the things he did. guest: i standi stand behind the book, no you are emotionally attached. i am not. i am an historian who writes in on this book. nothing i say will be challenged because we can back it all up. the selection of what we have is debatable,, but i did not set out to write saint ronald reagan. i set out to write here is a great president, here is what made him great. here is what he overcame. an assassin s bullet that almost took his life. it is a compelling dramatic story and we did a good job and i m happy to talk to
very much in high positions and demanding positions when they need those positions if they don t keep very busy mentally he leaves the office and he still very vibrant. he goes to mexico the fall from the horse that have the concussion. talk about that a little bit. do you think nancy may have hit something here? guest: i think so. all of those traumas accelerate whatever you have inside you in a hereditary kind of way. again, was in our intent to be medical people? it was our attempt to show what happened.happened. and to take you from a very historical point of you to tell people who lived during a reagan era like him and don t like him, i want everybody to read the book it was not a guy who did not care. he did not care about poor people of the little people as minorities. not true. his embrace of the free market system and that he believed if you allow american capitalism the freedom to prosper everyone will work who wants to come and that is exactly what happened. we s
protecting america,, it said a great deal about the man. guest: we cover that with his interactions with margaret t from margaret thatcher, gorbachev, the ultimate success of his policy toward the soviet union. we made that quite clear that the way he structured his administration, very successful and foreign-policy. host: relationship with margaret thatcher you have some great stuff in here. they both were strong individuals. guest: we got that transcript of the reagan thatcher phone call they did not tell his best pal it was hanging out to dry peas he was telling her parliament the united states is not going to do this. and she lets him up on the phone call and we have the transcript. we lay out the whole thing which is why these books are so successful because people get the big picture. now who was at reagan s funeral into using the given him? even though there was this detachment over granada they came back together again because they were both essentially of like