What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Noonan, Peggy

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9780816150472: What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

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ISBN 10: 0816150478 ISBN 13: 9780816150472

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1990

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A speechwriter in the Reagan Administration describes life in and around the White House and the experience of being a woman in a traditionally male environment

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Review:

“A welcome oasis in the desert of political memoirs... likely to be the most honest, lucid and enjoyable look at the Reagan White House that we’ll get.”
—"The Dallas Morning News"
“An engaging book, the story of how a plucky and talented young person literally wrote her way into a previously all-male domain.”
—"The Washington Post Book World
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“Noonan has written the funniest, most richly textured, nervously self-effacing and deftly observed political memoir...to come out of the 1980s.” —"Time "

A welcome oasis in the desert of political memoirs... likely to be the most honest, lucid and enjoyable look at the Reagan White House that we ll get.
"The Dallas Morning News"
An engaging book, the story of how a plucky and talented young person literally wrote her way into a previously all-male domain.
"The Washington Post Book World
"
Noonan has written the funniest, most richly textured, nervously self-effacing and deftly observed political memoir...to come out of the 1980s. "Time ""

"A welcome oasis in the desert of political memoirs... likely to be the most honest, lucid and enjoyable look at the Reagan White House that we'll get."
--The Dallas Morning News

"An engaging book, the story of how a plucky and talented young person literally wrote her way into a previously all-male domain."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Noonan has written the funniest, most richly textured, nervously self-effacing and deftly observed political memoir...to come out of the 1980s." --Time

About the Author:

Peggy Noonan was a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986; in 1988, she was chief speechwriter to Vice President George Bush during his campaign for presidency; in 1989, she left Washington, D.C., for her native New York, where she completed her first book, the bestselling What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Years. Since that time, her articles and essays have appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and many other publications. She is also author of The Case Against Hillary Clinton, a #1 New York Times bestseller. Currently, she is a columnist and contributing editor at The Wall Street Journal and a political contributor for Fox News. She lives in New York City.

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