If you want to be the grumpy relative who befouls the holiday spirits this year, simply place Max Boot’s lengthy, expensive, flat-prosed Reagan tome under the Christmas tree: “Reagan: His Life and Legend.”
It is impossible to describe his opus as a biography because the more you plow through the dense writing, the more you discover that Boot has used his public relations campaign to disguise as comprehensive history what has all the earmarks of a patched-together work of a reporter who has cobbled together years of clips, interviews, archival research, and reviews of other Reagan books (some questionable) to write a very long newspaper article.
His work fits the pattern of one who yearns to seek attention for a revisionist look at the life and presidency of Ronald Reagan – a “see-me” product – hoping a Pulitzer jury might be lulled into the fantasy of believing Boot has actually written a volume that meets its standards.
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