Ronald Reagan in Private: A Memoir of My Years in the White House - Hardcover

Kuhn, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1595230084 ISBN 13: 9781595230089

Publisher: Sentinel, 2004

Synopsis

Reagan's former Executive Assistant provides an insider's glimpse of the former president and his administration, offering a deeply personal perspective into the private man, his relationships, his policy agenda, and his thoughts on a range of issues.

About this title

About the Author:

Jim Kuhn served Ronald Reagan as an advance man, personal assistant, and finally, executive assistant, from 1976 until the President left the White House in 1989. Kuhn is now a Washington lobbyist.

From Publishers Weekly:

Kuhn first met Reagan in 1975, when Kuhn was a 23-year-old Ohio farm kid who had voted for McGovern in 1972. Kuhn had been recruited to work for a Republican candidate during the 1974 primaries and made a "surprisingly easy" switch: "I found that I was attracted more to a particular candidate than to a particular ideology." Working the next year for Reagan, then governor of California, as a campaign "advance man" (prepping rally sites), Kuhn traveled with Reagan as he challenged Ford for the 1976 presidential nomination and returned for the successful 1980 campaign ("a spiritual and moral crusade to revive the heart of America"). After four years as a presidential appearance advance man (Kuhn was elsewhere during the assassination attempt), he became Reagan's executive assistant in 1984. Kuhn's admiring anecdotes about Reagan's interpersonal interactions form the heart of the book. Reagan's reactions to Reykjavik, Iran-Contra and myriad other '80s events are also here, and unfailingly admired by Kuhn. Light and light-filled, Kuhn's version of morning in America gives tender and specific recollections of its glossy surfaces, but not much more.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Sentinel
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1595230084
• ISBN 13: 9781595230089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288