The Debate Continues...In two new books, Sean Wilentz (Princeton historian) and Will Bunch (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist) serve up competing viewpoints on our 4oth President, Ronald Reagan.
In The Age of Reagan: a History, Wilentz argues, "his [Reagan's] achievement looks much more substantial than anything the Reagan mythmakers have said in his honor."
In Tear Down This Myth, Bunch argues that Reagan's main talent was his ability to compromise; the rest of the myth came from a news media used "for purposes that were essentially partisan in nature..."
Plenty of meat on both of these bones; read both books and decide for yourself which con is pro or which pro is con.
