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...voter, Reagan hopes to re-establish the G.O.P. as the majority party for the first time in more than half a century. Optimistic Republican strategists believe they can finally rid the party of the country-club conservative label that has clung to it since the days of Coolidge and Hoover. "The President has in his hands the weapon with which to forever dismantle the New Deal coalition," exults New Right Strategist Richard Viguerie...
...created Dick Tracy, the hawk- nosed dean of comic-strip detectives, and chronicled his adventures, syndicated in more than 500 newspapers, until retiring in 1977; in Woodstock, Ill. Gould drew his original inspiration from Prohibition-era gangsterism and the new folk heroes of law enforcement: J. Edgar Hoover's G-men. Gould's wonderfully nasty, physiognomically named villains--Flattop, the Mole, Pruneface, the Brow--never got the better of his snap-brimmed hero...
...came to be seriously isolated. Franklin Roosevelt's mobility was restricted by his polio and then by wartime security. For Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, political adversity, in the form of Viet Nam and Watergate, made it painful to move around much in the country. (Four decades earlier, Herbert Hoover had suffered similar imprisonment by the Depression; he was not much of a mixer even in good times.) Nixon and Jimmy Carter were more or less reclusive Presidents by temperament. Reagan's curiosity is well contained. Eisenhower was somewhat less gregarious than the famous grin suggested; age and illness...
...ebullient presidential leadership would naturally aim at expanding the role of the Federal Government (and the Chief Magistrate), and that any President of contrary outlook would necessarily be a cold, crabbed type or at best likably lazy. Franklin Roosevelt was the exemplar of the bold, joyous activist, Coolidge and Hoover the chill naysayers (so the academic stereotype went), Ike the lazy nice guy. So here came Reagan, not overworking himself but relishing the job and the power, using it with great gusto and skill to shrink the role of Government and of the President...
...Hagerty), a straight arrow with several bent feathers, into risking all their capital on this trundle into self-discovery. Their itinerary, compared with that of their role models, is truncated and painfully mainstream. It consists largely of Las Vegas, where she loses their nest egg in a night, and Hoover Dam, where they have a marital wrangle the scope of which matches the backdrop. But never mind this minimalism. Brooks (who directed Lost in America and co-wrote it with Monica Johnson) is a shrewd, deadpan observer of the secret life of middle-class Americans. He likes to bring their...