{"id":157841,"date":"2024-11-10T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=157841"},"modified":"2024-11-10T16:52:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T00:52:18","slug":"i-cant-believe-that-neo-con-max-boot-published-the-definitive-reagan-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=157841","title":{"rendered":"I Can’t Believe That Neo-Con Max Boot Published The Definitive Reagan Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some excerpts from this new book<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n* Although Dutch would develop a winning sense of humor \u2014 he would be one of the best joke – tellers ever to become president \u2014 he was, and would always remain, a stranger to irony or sarcasm. Hurtful humor was as alien to his nature as disillusionment and self – awareness. As his first wife, Jane Wyman, said, \u201cHe has fun without hurting feelings.\u201d 12 That was just as well from the standpoint of his future political career. Politicians, such as John McCain, Bob Dole, and Mo Udall, whose wit is too cutting \u2014 and who are too apt to puncture their own or others\u2019 pieties and pretensions \u2014 seldom get elected to the nation\u2019s highest office. Few people would buy a political platform \u2014 or any other product \u2014 from a salesman who is less than entirely, wholeheartedly, unreservedly, and unironically convinced of its superior virtues. And Dutch always was, whether he was promoting school spirit in his teenage years or tax cuts in his senior years. His beliefs changed over the years, but his devotion to them remained steadfast. He was, from the start, a true believer \u2014 and not just in Christianity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some excerpts from this new book: * Although Dutch would develop a winning sense of humor \u2014 he would be one of the best joke – tellers ever to become president \u2014 he was, and would always remain, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ronald-reagan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157845,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157841\/revisions\/157845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}