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Tear Down This Myth: The Right-Wing Distortion of the Reagan Legacy by Will Bunch. "For Democrats, a good start on undoing the Reagan legend. For Republicans, an errant shot at a king." Review Purchase

The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America by William Kleinknecht. "Tough, well-argued criticism of a conservative icon". Review Purchase

Reconsidering Reagan: Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump by Daniel S. Lucks

>What’s the main point of the book?
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>This is the first full-length study of Reagan that focuses on his civil rights legacy, which I deemed to be racist — both his politics were racist and his policies were racist. And I argue that he planted a lot of seeds for this Trumpism that is going on now.
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>Reagan was a very significant president. He was transformational in many ways. He did to conservatism what Roosevelt did to the New Deal. Reagan was instrumental arguing that government is not the solution, but the problem.
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>Some of these suburban conservatives who were complaining or lamenting that Trump suddenly hijacked the beloved party of Reagan. My book argues that, no, the conservative movement was infected with a virulent strain of racism from its inception and that Reagan practiced the art of racial polarization in a very subtle way. So, in my view, Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. This is a logical culmination of a broader trajectory of the conservative movement that was formed in the 1950s.

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The blog Best Presidential Bios has a page for Ronald Reagan which contains reviews of numerous Reagan biographies, if you haven't checked that out yet.

>This isn’t a new problem, of course. <em>Ever since 1980</em>, when <em>Ronald Reagan</em>’s initial “Make America Great Again” platform” was cover (just as it would be for Donald Trump) for slashing taxes on the wealthy, the background noise of income inequality has gone from a whisper to the scream of “<em>We are the 99 Percent</em>!”
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>But the cataclysm of 2020′s pandemic and related shutdowns has taken America’s wealth gap from tragedy to farce. After a steep dip in the spring — shuttered stores and factories and millions of jobless claims will do that, at least briefly — Wall Street bounced back and kept going. Why? Some of the daily spikes have shown that America’s supposedly sharp-eyed stock traders — like the president they admire — are far too susceptible to dubious rumors and scammy press releases about imminent vaccines.

You should check out Tear Down This Myth if you want a really great break-down on the subject that's told in an interesting way.

Which one's were false? Please you took the time to respond, so back it up. Also, does this book among others I've read count?