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Rendezvous with Destiny : Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America

& ldquo;A first-rate work of insider his & shy;tory ... A monumental accomplishment. & rdquo; & mdash; National Review The election that changed everything: Craig Shirley & rsquo;s masterful account of the 1980 presidential campaign reveals how a race judged & ldquo;too close to call & rdquo; as late as Election Day became a Reagan landslide & mdash;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 & mdash;from Reagan & rsquo;s closest advisers and family members to Jimmy Carter himself. His gripping account follows Reagan & rsquo;s unlikely path from his bitter defeat on the floor of the 1976 Republican convention, through his underreported & ldquo;wilderness years, & rdquo; 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 & rsquo;s astounding victory on Election Night in 1980. Shirley & rsquo;s years of intensive research have enabled him to relate countless untold stories & mdash;including, at long last, the solution to one of the most enduring mysteries in politics: just how Reagan & rsquo;s campaign got hold of Carter & rsquo;s debate briefing books.

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  • "In Rendezvous with Destiny, Craig Shirley tells the incredible behind-the-scenes story of Reagan's improbable run to the White House in 1980--of how the "too close to call" election became a landslide victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter and independent candidate John Anderson. --from publisher description"
  • "As late as Election Day, headlines across the country blared that the race was "too close to call." Even on the verge of his historic triumph in the 1980 presidential election, political observers continued to underestimate Ronald Wilson Reagan. In Rendezvous with Destiny, the long-awaited follow-up to his widely praised account of Reagan's insurgent 1976 presidential campaign, Craig Shirley tells the incredible behind-the-scenes story of Reagan's improbable run to the White House in 1980 - of how the "too close to call" election became a landslide victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter and independent candidate John Anderson. And this, Shirley shows, was no ordinary election. It dramatically altered the course of American - and world - history. Reagan's victory gave rise to a new generation of conservatism, ended liberalism's half-century reign of dominance, reversed the second-worst economic crisis in American history, and led to the demise of the mighty Soviet Union."
  • "& ldquo;A first-rate work of insider his & shy;tory ... A monumental accomplishment. & rdquo; & mdash; National Review The election that changed everything: Craig Shirley & rsquo;s masterful account of the 1980 presidential campaign reveals how a race judged & ldquo;too close to call & rdquo; as late as Election Day became a Reagan landslide & mdash;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 & mdash;from Reagan & rsquo;s closest advisers and family members to Jimmy Carter himself. His gripping account follows Reagan & rsquo;s unlikely path from his bitter defeat on the floor of the 1976 Republican convention, through his underreported & ldquo;wilderness years, & rdquo; 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 & rsquo;s astounding victory on Election Night in 1980. Shirley & rsquo;s years of intensive research have enabled him to relate countless untold stories & mdash;including, at long last, the solution to one of the most enduring mysteries in politics: just how Reagan & rsquo;s campaign got hold of Carter & rsquo;s debate briefing books."@en

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