Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America by Craig Shirley

Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America



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Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America Craig Shirley
Language: English
Page: 650
Format: epub
ISBN: 1935191934, 9781935191933
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Review

"An unbelievable book . . . I was part of the Reagan Revolution and I

didn't know 80 percent of this stuff! . . . It's worth reading, and

reading right now."

—Mark Levin, bestselling author of Liberty and Tyranny

 

 "Anyone who would understand the Reagan victory of 1980 and the

movement that eliminated the Soviet Union and revitalized America must

read—indeed must study—Craig Shirley's brilliant, comprehensive work."

—Newt Gingrich

 

  "Shirley has done extensive interviewing and research for Rendezvous

with Destiny, and it's a terrific read—for political junkies of all

ideological stripes."

—Michael Barone

 

 "This exhilarating history . . . arrives, serendipitously, at a moment

when conservatives are much in need of an inspiriting examination of

their finest hour."

—George F. Will, from the Foreword

 

"This story has been told before by journalists and historians,

including myself, but Shirley's account brings an inside dimension to

the campaign's travails. 'Rendezvous with Destiny' is prodigiously

researched and well noted. When future historians re—examine the 1980

campaign, one of their first stops is likely to be 'Rendezvous With

Destiny.'"

—Lou Cannon

 

"This is consequential history at every step. . . a first—rate work of

insider history. The book reads like Bob Woodward at his very best: a

probing, insightful, behind—the—scenes examination of events that had

profound implications for the trajectory of American politics. Shirley

has accomplished a great feat of scholarship and research, and it could

not have come at a better time. The current political climate is highly

reminiscent of that of the late 1970s. These historical similarities add

special value to Shirley's work. It is an important, timely book that

conservatives, Reagan admirers, and students of electoral politics will

cherish and enjoy for years. Credit is due to Shirley for a monumental

accomplishment."

—National Review

 

"...New book Rendezvous with Destiny, which I am almost finished with. .

. .What a hell of a good book!"

—Larry Kudlow, CNBC

 

"There have been hundreds of books written about Ronald Reagan and this

is the question that always irritates an author, why do we need another

one? Well, we don't have to get very far in Craig Shirley's new book

about Reagan to know that, yes, there is still a lot we didn't know

about Reagan and how he came to the White House. . . . It is a

fascinating book!"

—Bob Schieffer, CBS

 

"Author's tale of that multi—month campaign. . . has a you—are—there

quality. His intention is to provide the reader with a definitive

history of the 1980 campaign, and he succeeds almost too well. Lest your

head spin by the details of ever—shifting polls, maneuvers, and news

coverage of every step in every primary election campaign—keep going,

for the reward will be a clear understanding of how Ronald Reagan's

appeal to 'Main Street' Americans, including many blue—collar Democrats,

coincided with his own determination to win."

—Weekly Standard

 

"It is an exhaustive study that will be at the very core of the Reagan

bibliography for future generations, and will not anytime soon—if

ever—be surpassed."

—American Spectator

 

"As conservatives continue to try to reinvent themselves in the image of

RR, it is helpful to have at our disposal this meticulously researched

tome detailing how 'The Great Communicator' overcame the Republican

establishment to oust an incumbent president —— and ultimately, to

change the world."

—Politics Daily

 

 "I believe "Rendezvous" is a compellingly written, thoroughly

documented treatise that is essential reading for anybody who seeks to

understand what happened and why on Reagan's third try for the White

House. . . ."Rendezvous" is a chronicle, not an investigation, and ought

to be judged as such. And a wonderfully detailed chronicle it is."

—Mark Tapscott, Washington Examiner

 

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Book Description

A landmark history, updated for the centennial of Reagan’s birth

 

A revised and updated paperback edition of Craig Shirley’s gripping, insider history of the pivotal 1980 presidential election, published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth (February 2011) with Newt Gingrich contributing a new afterword to the paperback.

As late as Election Day, headlines across the country blared that the race was "TOO CLOSE TO CALL."

Even on the verge of his historic triumph in the 1980 presidential election, political observers continued to underestimate Ronald Wilson Reagan.

In Rendezvous with Destiny, the long-awaited follow-up to his widely praised account of Reagan’s insurgent 1976 presidential campaign, Craig Shirley tells the incredible behind-the-scenes story of Reagan’s improbable run to the White House in 1980—of how the "too close to call" election became a landslide victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter and independent candidate John Anderson.

And this, Shirley shows, was no ordinary election. It dramatically altered the course of American—and world—history. Reagan’s victory gave rise to a new generation of conservatism, ended liberalism’s half-century reign of dominance, reversed the second-worst economic crisis in American history, and led to the demise of the mighty Soviet Union.

To write Rendezvous with Destiny, Shirley gained unprecedented access to 1980 campaign files and interviewed more than 150 insiders—from Reagan’s closest advisers and family members to Jimmy Carter himself. The result is the first comprehensive history of the hard-fought 1980 campaign, a gripping account that follows Reagan’s unlikely path from his bitter defeat on the floor of the 1976 Republican convention, through his underreported "wilderness years, " through grueling primary fights in which he knocked out several Republican heavyweights, through an often-nasty general election campaign complicated by the presence of a third-party candidate (not to mention the looming shadow of Ted Kennedy), to Reagan’s astounding victory on Election Night in 1980. Shirley’s years of intensive research have enabled him to relate countless untold stories—including, at long last, the solution to one of the most enduring mysteries in politics: just how Reagan’s campaign got hold of Carter’s debate briefing books.

Rendezvous with Destiny reveals how Reagan successfully battled the headwinds of the national media, the Republican Party establishment, and even his own campaign team to become one of America’s greatest chief executives.

 

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