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Tear Down This Myth: The Right-Wing Distortion of the Reagan Legacy

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The Lou Cannon book is recognized as the most thorough and scholarly:

President Reagan: The Role Of A Lifetime

Tear Down This Myth: The Right-Wing Distortion of the Reagan Legacy

For younger folks interested in politics, I highly recommend the book, Tear Down This Myth by Will Bunch. It will help you to understand where we are today as Reagan ushered in the Neocons. It's a fairly quick easy read.

https://www.amazon.com/Tear-Down-This-Myth-Right-Wing/dp/1416597638

I got the political statements from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Tear-Down-This-Myth-Right-Wing/dp/1416597638

It goes into more detail about how much Lee Atwater was doing for Reagan by the end of his administration. Having said that it also messes up a Gorbachev quote by having him say "Karl Rove" instead of "Lee Atwater" and I quoted it wrong for years because of that book until a reddit user corrected me. However generally it has a good reputation and that quote was corrected. So I think he just wrote it down wrong at some point or an editor messed it up before publication.

You should check out Tear Down This Myth if you want a really great break-down on the subject that's told in an interesting way.

The proxy wars were definitely a part of it. Iran-Contra for one, Afghanistan for another. Reagan backed the mujahideen in order to "fight" Russia, but these are the same people who then became al Qaeda.

He lowered the tax on the wealthiest from 70% to 50%, then to 28%, reducing the Federal revenue and more than doubling the national debt. The US went from the largest creditor nation in the world to the largest debtor nation in the world under his administration. The average Americans wages have never recovered. While he made the corporate class richer, he did nothing to prevent the massive offshoring of jobs to other countries.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/

He was a homophobic bigot who deliberately ignored the AIDS crisis, the crack epidemic, and anything else that didn't directly affect white "Christian" Americans.

He escalated Nixon's "War on Drugs", sold weapons to our enemies, dramatically increased military spending by 35%, feeding the massive military-industrial complex we have today.

I could go in, but I'm on vacation and don't need to get my blood-pressure up over this asshole. Suffice it to say, I have despised Reagan since he was in office, and honestly believe he was the beginning of the end for the working class in America.

If you are interested in reading more from the "anti-Reagan" perspective, give this book a read.

Tear Down This Myth: The Right-Wing Distortion of the Reagan Legacy https://www.amazon.com/dp/1416597638/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ArxrDbKM8686Y

Which one's were false? Please you took the time to respond, so back it up. Also, does this book among others I've read count?

Tear Down This Myth: The Right-Wing Distortion of the Reagan Legacy shows Reagan in a different light than the mythological conservative the right-wing ideologues are and have been pushing. It's an excoriation of the myth of Ronald Reagan but not necessarily of Reagan himself. You might even sometimes find the book complimentary of Reagan.