Rendezvous with Destiny
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Rendezvous with Destiny

Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America

  1. 752 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Rendezvous with Destiny

Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America

About this book

"A first-rate work of insider his­tory... A monumental accomplishment." — National Review
The election that changed everything: Craig Shirley's masterful account of the 1980 presidential campaign reveals how a race judged "too close to call" as late as Election Day became a Reagan landslide—and altered the course of history. To write Rendezvous with Destiny, Shirley gained unprecedented access to 1980 campaign files and interviewed more than 150 insiders—from Reagan's closest advisers and family members to Jimmy Carter himself. His gripping account follows Reagan's unlikely path from his bitter defeat on the floor of the 1976 Republican convention, through his underreported "wilderness years, " through grueling primary fights in which he knocked out several Republican heavyweights, through an often-nasty general election campaign complicated by the presence of a third-party candidate (not to mention the looming shadow of Ted Kennedy), to Reagan's astounding victory on Election Night in 1980. Shirley's years of intensive research have enabled him to relate countless untold stories—including, at long last, the solution to one of the most enduring mysteries in politics: just how Reagan's campaign got hold of Carter's debate briefing books.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by George F. Will
  6. Prologue A NEW BEGINNING
  7. Chapter 1 EXIT, STAGE RIGHT
  8. Chapter 2 RETURN OF THE REPUBLICANS
  9. Chapter 3 LE MALAISE
  10. Chapter 4 THE FRONT-WALKER
  11. Chapter 5 THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRYSIDE
  12. Chapter 6 THE ASTERISK ALSO RISES
  13. Chapter 7 BUSH BEARS DOWN
  14. Chapter 8 DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM
  15. Chapter 9 FAST TIMES AT NASHUA HIGH
  16. Chapter 10 REAGAN ROMPS
  17. Chapter 11 UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
  18. Chapter 12 FORD TEES OFF
  19. Chapter 13 NOW ANDERSON
  20. Chapter 14 BUSH'S COUNTEROFFENSIVE
  21. Chapter 15 REAGAN'S DEMOCRATS
  22. Chapter 16 THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL
  23. Chapter 17 WEST OF EDEN
  24. Chapter 18 WINNING IS GOOD
  25. Chapter 19 SIX MEN OUT
  26. Chapter 20 COMING OF AGE
  27. Chapter 21 THE ROAD TO DETROIT
  28. Chapter 22 SUMMER IN THE CITY
  29. Chapter 23 AT CENTER STAGE
  30. Chapter 24 MOTOWN MADNESS
  31. Chapter 25 FAMILY, WORK, NEIGHBORHOOD, PEACE, AND FREEDOM
  32. Chapter 26 HORSE LATITUDES
  33. Chapter 27 THE DEMOCRATS
  34. Chapter 28 CORBIN
  35. Chapter 29 GENERAL QUARTERS
  36. Chapter 30 SLOUCHING TOWARDS NOVEMBER
  37. Chapter 31 THE TORRENTS OF AUTUMN
  38. Chapter 32 MISSION FROM GOD
  39. Chapter 33 STALLED
  40. Chapter 34 ON DECK
  41. Chapter 35 CLEVELAND
  42. Chapter 36 MELTDOWN
  43. Chapter 37 ENTRANCE, STAGE LEFT
  44. Epilogue DESTINY
  45. Author's Note
  46. Notes
  47. Bibliography
  48. Acknowledgments
  49. Index
  50. Copyright