Gambling with History: Reagan in the White House

"Gambling With History [is] an impressively clear and thorough account of the past three years of its subject's life...[Laurence Barrett] tells that story very well... his job as chief White House correspondent for Time has provided him with plenty of access and plenty of juicy outtakes from his weekly reports... Mr. Barrett's brief portraits of Mr. Reagan's chief lieutenants are vivid... To understand a revolutionary, as Mr. Reagan sometimes calls himself, requires weaving his life, his be...