What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era - Softcover

Noonan, Peggy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812969898 ISBN 13: 9780812969894

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2003

Synopsis

On the hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth comes the twentieth-anniversary edition of Peggy Noonan’s critically acclaimed bestseller What I Saw at the Revolution, for which she provides a new Preface that demonstrates this book’s timeless relevance. As a special assistant to the president, Noonan worked with Ronald Reagan—and with Vice President George H. W. Bush—on some of their most memorable speeches. Noonan shows us the world behind the words, and her sharp, vivid portraits of President Reagan and a host of Washington’s movers and shakers are rendered in inimitable, witty prose. Her priceless account of what it was like to be a speechwriter among bureaucrats, and a woman in the last bastion of male power, makes this a Washington memoir that breaks the mold—as spirited, sensitive, and thoughtful as Peggy Noonan herself.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

As a special assistant to the president, Peggy Noonan worked with Ronald Reagan, and with Vice President George H. W. Bush, on some of their most famous and memorable speeches. In her thoroughly engaging and critically acclaimed memoir, Noonan shows us the world behind the words. Her sharp and vivid portraits of the Reagans, Bush, and a host of Washington’s movers and shakers are rendered in inimitable, witty prose. And her priceless account of what it was like to be a speechwriter among bureaucrats, and a woman in the last bastion of male power, makes this a Washington memoir that breaks the mold—as spirited, sensitive, and thoughtful as Peggy Noonan herself.

From the Back Cover

“A welcome oasis in the desert of political memoirs... likely to be the most honest, lucid and enjoyable look at the Reagan White House that we’ll get.”
—The Dallas Morning News

“An engaging book, the story of how a plucky and talented young person literally wrote her way into a previously all-male domain.”
—The Washington Post Book World

“A lively portrait...terri?cally entertaining.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Noonan has written the funniest, most richly textured, nervously self-effacing and deftly observed political memoir...to come out of the 1980s.” —Time

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0812969898
• ISBN 13: 9780812969894
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384