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...Yeah, really. We're big, we're strong, we're on scholarships and we ain't supposed to lose to Ivy boys. So in fact, we might just kill...
Open with the upbeat scene of Ronald Reagan standing tall in bright California sunshine before almost 50,000 true believers. Balloons float, flags wave, optimism abounds. "You ain't seen nothing yet," declares the President. "Four more years!" the crowd roars. "You talked me into it!" chortles Reagan, pink cheeks glowing, head bobbing happily...
When he is at full boil, Tosches writes the way Little Richard talks. Wanda Jackson, purveyor of 1958's excellent Fujiyama Mama ("When I start eruptin', ain't nobody gonna make me stop"), was simply "too hot a package to sell over the counter." Louis Jordan "made party music . . . in which every aspect of the expanding universe was seen in terms of fried fish, sloppy kisses, gin, and the saxophone whose message transcends knowing." Very hep and very fond, Unsung Heroes also includes an "Archaeologia Rockola," which can direct the untutored reader to such diverse selections...
Ronald Reagan defies tidy summary. He cannot be measured by bills passed, treaties signed and doctrines proclaimed. Facts Reagan ain...
...office in the White House. He was an adviser on every issue that came up. I'm not going to be sitting around knitting-if that's what anybody thinks. The job will not be redefined again because I'm a female. I ain't going to be any helpmate...