Review: From Ron Reagan, a highly personal assessment of 'My Father at 100'
Review: From Ron Reagan, a highly personal assessment of 'My Father at 100' by Aare Omotoyosi O Craig on Monday, February 7, 2011 at 5:41am By Michiko Kakutani New York Times Posted: 02/05/2011 12:00:00 AM PST Ronald Reagan the politician has been enshrined as a heroic visionary by the right, celebrated for ending the Cold War and reducing the size of government, and invoked as a touchstone for all things conservative. At the same time, he's been caricatured by the left as the dunderheaded godfather of red-state America, promoting lower taxes for the rich, higher deficits and a more fragile social safety net. Reagan the man, meanwhile, has eluded capture, described over the years in an assortment of images that make him out to be more symbol than human being: "the perfect Scout," a "Doctor Feelgood," an "amiable dunce." His official biographer, Edmund Morris, was so perplexed by his subject's opaci...