ROME (ITALPRESS) – “Reagan – The president who changed American politics”. It is the biography, published by Mondadori, that the director of Tg2 Gennaro Sangiuliano dedicates to the 40th tenant of the White House, on the 40th anniversary of his inauguration. On November 4, 1980, with an overwhelming result, the Americans elect Ronald Reagan as president of the United States. It’s an avalanche: Ronnie, as his friends call him, wins in 45 states out of 50; for the outgoing president, Democrat Jimmy Carter, who was calling for re-election, it’s a humiliation. Despite the numbers, Reagan’s rise to the White House was greeted with astonishment: a former Hollywood actor, well known to the television audience, taking over the helm of the world‘s greatest superpower? Was it a dangerous gamble or an event ahead of its time? That of Ronald Wilson Reagan, in reality, is an all-American story. Born in Tampico in 1911, at the time a tiny town in Illinois, the little “Dutch” – as he is nicknamed in the family for the plump lines of his face – grew up in the geographical region that is the beating heart of the nation of stars and stripes, the Midwest. The father is an Irish Catholic without a stable job and with the habit of alcohol, the mother a very religious woman, devoted to the Church of the disciples of Christ. After graduating in economics, Reagan arrives in Hollywood almost by accident and makes a decent career in the world of cinema, until he discovers the importance of political commitment, first as president of the actors’ union (Screen Actors Guild) and then as governor of California from 1967 to 1975 in the ranks of the Republican Party, he who as a young man had sympathized with the Democrat Roosevelt. The climb to the Grand Old Party was now outlined. Forty years after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in the White House, Sangiuliano dedicates a detailed and compelling biography to the most popular president of modern America, full of information, news and anecdotes. Author, on the ideological and cultural level, of the “conservative revolution” and anti-statist that characterized the last decades of the short century, Reagan is also the president of the United States who defeated Soviet communism – and won the Cold War – “without firing a shot. “, as Margaret Thatcher will say. (ITALPRESS). sat / com 01-Feb-21 09:45
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