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b_b  ·  3561 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you reading? Is it any good?

    A nice grandpa who ratted out all his buddies to the HUAC, you mean.

Don't get me wrong--I despise Reagan and modern day reaganists especially. I just happen to find this topic fascinating, especially that he can seem to be so right and so wrong simultaneously on this particular issue. Hoffman points out in the beginning of the book, perhaps even in the prologue, that RR was a person who could hold several seemingly conflicting views on a given topic. This is evident in his dealings with the USSR.