- Paperback
- Publisher: Fawcett; Ballantine Books edition (1 Jan 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0449001008
- ISBN-13: 978-0449001004
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,456,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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On the hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth comes the twentieth-anniversary edition of Peggy Noonan’s critically acclaimed bestseller What I Saw at the Revolution, for which she provides a new Preface that demonstrates this book’s timeless relevance. As a special assistant to the president, Noonan worked with Ronald Reagan—and with Vice President George H. W. Bush—on some of their most memorable speeches. Noonan shows us the world behind the words, and her sharp, vivid portraits of President Reagan and a host of Washington’s movers and shakers are rendered in inimitable, witty prose. Her priceless account of what it was like to be a speechwriter among bureaucrats, and a woman in the last bastion of male power, makes this a Washington memoir that breaks the mold—as spirited, sensitive, and thoughtful as Peggy Noonan herself.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Noonan's observations are paradoxical. She has both a keen perception of politicians with their egos, backstabbing and hidden agendas, and at the same time holds a strangely optomistic view toward the future and the American Public. As a speech writer she knows her stuff, and someone who was thinking of getting into this sort of thing would do well to read this book. She details the process of how speeches are constructed and then how their meaning is subsiquently filtered by staff, State Dept., etc., into a conglomeration of colorless mush. The narritive sounds much like something you might hear around a local D.C. watering hole. I get the impression that Noonan might have been happier simply being a poet, but I for one am glad she took her road less traveled. Besides that, I just like her. You will too.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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It would be an understatement to say that Peggy Noonan was a fly on the wall of the Reagan White House. Her book shares her innermost feelings and thoughts on being Ronald Reagans head speech writer. If you're a fan of Ronald Reagan you'll love this book. Noonan shares great insight behind some of Reagan's (and later President Bush's) most famous speeches.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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For teenagers who know nothing of the Reagan years, this is a good introductory account from a second-tier Republican. For those of us who lived through them, it is a banal rehash on the level of the prose one finds in _Newsweek_ or _Time_. The insights are few, too. This reader's view is that the area in which Miss Noonan was involved, the drafting of speeches for the president, is at once trivial and overrated in importance, so I lament that this book will be many people's introduction to Reaganite (as distinguished from Reagoon or Reaganinnie) political thinking and activity; still, it's better than nothing.
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