The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of his Conversion to Conservatism

Thomas W. Evans

Paper, 320 pages, 6 photographs
ISBN: 978-0-231-13861-1
$19.50 / £11.50

January, 2007
Cloth, 320 pages, 6 photographs
ISBN: 978-0-231-13860-4
$40.00 / £23.50

1. A New Dealer to the Core

2. Politics: War by Different Means

Part I. A Postgraduate Course in Political Science

3. Boulwarism

4. The Plant Tour

5. Schools, Classes, and Trains

Part II. An Apprenticeship for Public Life

6. The Campaign

7. Allies

8. The Speech

9. Two Unions

10. The Art of Negotiation

Part III. To Encourage an Increasing Majority of Citizens

11. The Campaign Continues

12. The Presidential Bug

13. A President’s Vision

Appendix. Speeches of Reuther, Boulware, and Reagan

Walter P. Reuther, Labor and the Community

Lemuel Boulware, Salvation Is Not Free

Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing (“The Speech”)

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

Related Subjects

• American History
• American Politics

Series

• Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History

About the Author

Thomas W. Evans, a lawyer and avocational politician, has supervised a successful New Hampshire presidential primary and established a national citizens' campaign organization. A former adjunct professor of education and administration at Columbia University's Teachers College, Evans was chair of the Reagan administration's national symposium on partnerships in education and counsel to the Points of Light Foundation under George H.W. Bush.

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