Title: *Not* a history of a president
Product review: This is not, in itself, a bad book. The fictional narratortakes himself far too seriously -- and putting his made up 'diary' inthe footnotes is ludicrous. But my main complaint is that it covers much less of Ronald Reagan's political life than we have a right to expect. There's almost nothing on the 1980 or 1984 campaigns, and pretty close to that on 8 years worth of domestic policy making. There are very interesting pieces on RR's relations with the USSR, and Morris writes well, even brilliantly at times, when he's not writing about himself. Somewhere in here is 40 pages of a fantastic "summing up Reagan" article trying to get out. But for anyone doing research on Reagan the president, this is not the place to go -- and it should have been.
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