Instant New York Timesbestseller "" Reagan His Life and Legend aims to be the definitive biography, and it succeeds."" New Yorker ""Gripping. Stands out for its deep research [and] lucid prose."" New York Times ""Magisterial... Important... Vivid. Splendid."" Washington Post Named one of the ""Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall"" by Npr and the New York Times Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician Americas fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography. In this monumental and impressive biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president's aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot provides the best biography of Ronald Reagan to date (Robert Mann). The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much vaunted…