REAGAN

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Boy from Tampico
3. Chapter Two - Hollywood’s Favorite Nobody
4. Chapter Three - Red Scare, White Teeth
5. Chapter Four - Polishing the Pitchman
6. Chapter Five - Mr. California
7. Chapter Six - The Speech That Sold a Revolution
8. Chapter Seven - Morning in the Machine
9. Chapter Eight - The Great Undoing
10. Chapter Nine - The Coldest Warrior
11. Chapter Ten - The Lie That Killed
12. Chapter Eleven - The War on the Poor
13. Chapter Twelve - The Crack and the Cage
14. Chapter Thirteen - The Sandinista Shuffle
15. Chapter Fourteen - The Church of Reagan
16. Chapter Fifteen - The Legacy That Ate Its Father
17. Chapter Sixteen - The Reboot

Excerpt

PROLOGUE THERE’S A PHOTO. You’ve seen it, even if you don’t remember. Ronald Reagan, head tilted, grin perfect, hair immaculate. The American flag behind him. Eyes squinting. Not from the sun, from certainty. It looks harmless. Warm. Patriotic. Safe. Like your grandpa, if your grandpa could launch a covert war and sell missiles under the table. But stare long enough, and you’ll see something else. Not a man. A product. A prototype of the modern American president. Made for television, programmed for comfort, and weaponized for capital. This book isn’t a takedown. It’s a decoding. Because Ronald Reagan wasn’t just a man. He was a mechanism. He didn’t invent the machine, he just made it...