STORIES IN HIS OWN HAND The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald Reagan
Edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson With a foreword by George P. Shultz
>From the team that brought you the New York Times bestseller Reagan In His
Own Hand comes STORIES IN HIS OWN HAND: THE EVERYDAY WISDOM OF RONALD REAGAN
[Free Press; October 22, 2001; $21.00], a collection of 36 stories written
by Ronald Reagan that reveal the awesomely beautiful quality of his
character, courage, faith and inspiration.
Kiron Skinner, Annelise Anderson and Martin Anderson found theses handwritten stories in boxes mixed with Reagan's policy papers and promptly recognized that the stories leap off the page with the former president's wisdom. Because the stories cover a wide range of the human experience, the editors organized the stories into 10 categories including life and death, love and compassion, women and men, and race relations.
Here are stories about a father's wish for his soldier son, the faith and wisdom of a seven year old boy dying of leukemia, a college co-ed breaking from peer pressure to express her opinion, an integrated married couple opening their home to all people. Interspersed are jokes
Famous for his enjoyment of storytelling, his anecdotes - often cloaked in humor and light - always centered on individuals and inevitably would offer insight into the power of humanity. As George P. Shultz writes in the foreword, "Take your time with this book. It's short and easy - it's also profound."
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About the Editors: Kiron K. Skinner is an assistant professor of history and political science at Carnegie Mellon University, and a Hoover Institution Research Fellow. She is also a Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and National Interest. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Annelise Anderson has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1983. In 1980 she was a senior policy adviser to the presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan and from 1981 to 1983 she served as Associate Director for Economics and Government with the office of Management and Budget. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Martin Anderson is the Keith and Jan Hurlbut Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. After serving as a Special Assistant to Richard Nixon, he was a senior policy adviser to the 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan, and served as chief domestic and economic policy adviser under President Reagan. He is the author of six previous books, including Revolution (1988) and Impostors in the Temple (1992). He earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.