| Few people realize that Reagan's revolution, a monumental reshaping of the Republican party, began not on his taking office in 1980 but in his failed presidential challenge to Gerald Ford in 1975-1976. Craig Shirley has put together a remarkable story of that historic campaign that, as Reagan put it, turned a party of "pale pastels" into a national party of "bold colors." Featuring interviews with a myriad of politicos, journalists and observers, he relays intriguing, never-before-told anecdotes about Reagan, his staff, the campaign, the media and the national parties, and shows how Reagan brought the ever-weakening Republican party to his view and almost single-handedly revived it. |
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