The myth of Ronald Reagan's greatness has reached epic prosperous in recent years. The public rates him as one of the most popular presidents, and Republicans everywhere seek to cast themselves in his image. But award-winning journalist William Kleinknecht shows in this penetrating analysis of his presidency that the Reagan legacy has been devastating for the country-especially for the ordinary American he claimed to represent.
Boom-and-bust cycles, obscene CEO salaries, blackouts, drugs-company scandals, collapsing bridges, plummeting wages for working people, the flight of U.S. manufacturing abroad-these are all products of Reagan's free-market zealotry and his gutting of the public sector.
Kleinknecht takes us to Reagan's hometown of Dixon, Illinois, to show that he was anything but a friend to Main Street America. Relying on detailed factual analysis rather than opinion, The Man Sold the World is the first major work to explode the Reagan myth.
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