Quote of the Day II
"[Liberal historian Richard Reeves'] new book 'President Reagan: Triumph of Imagination' marks a surrender of sorts. The establishment has, for the moment at least, given in and decided that Reagan was a great historical figure after all. That Reeves arrived at such a conclusion is particularly notable. Twenty years ago, in 1985, he published The Reagan Detour, arguing that 'the Reagan years would be a detour, necessary if sometimes nasty, in the long progression of American liberal democracy.' As it turned out, Reagan's America was neither coldly conservative nor intractably hawkish, and we are still living in the nation he seduced and shaped" -- Jon Meaham, managing editor of Newsweek, writing in the Washington Post.
(No link to Washington Post provided in original.)
Update: That should be Jon Meacham.
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