Cspan kiron skinner, coeditor of reagan in his own hand, what do people get if they buy this book . Guest they see unvarnished Ronald Reagan, long before the presidency, writing, reading, thinking about every major issue facing the united states, and also drafting a strategy, quite surprisingly for many, to end the cold war peacefully without a major hegemonic war. Cspan can you remember the first time you ever heard of all this . Guest what do you mean, the Radio Broadcasts, his writing . Cspan the Radio Broadcasts, where youyou got yourself involved in it. Guest i was working in the Reagan Library. Id written nancy reagan, i believe it was in 1996; i wrote her aa letter about my research on the end of the cold war, and i said, im deeply fascinated by the american side of the story. Most of the research in the 1990s that i saw in the scholarly literature focused on the soviet side and on Eastern Europe and, you know, for good reasons. The revolutions were fascinating to people, and al
Guest i was a postdoc at ucla and i was a fellow at the Hoover Institution. And so i wrote her and said, im interested in the american side of the story. I dont think theres enough reporting on it, and id like to look at the president s private papers. i didnt know what would be there, but i thought there might be something to help me to unravel the american contribution. And so she granted me access to the papers and hundreds of archival boxes. Into the project i came upupon a few boxes, actually storage boxes, filled with hundreds, reallyliterally thousands of pieces of paper of reagans handwriting. And it took a while to figure out what it meant. Some of it was disorganized. Some of it was organized in file folders, but not all of it. And it was fascinating. It was. Cspan whwhere are you from originally . Wheres home . Guest i was born in chicago, but i grew up in the bay area, so i have to claim the bay area i moved there at age three, so i grew up near stanford. First San Francisc
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