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Reagan's father Jack recalls the characters W.C. Fields liked to play. He sold shoes but grandly styled himself a "graduate practipedist," was known to tipple and shuttled his family to some 13 homes in five towns; Mother Nelle was a teetotaler and a devout Protestant churchgoer. In the Depression, the impoverished Jack and his older son Neil were rescued by the New Deal: they worked for the federal relief program. Thus Ronald Reagan, the great enemy of bureaucracy, observes Wills, "was cradled in the arms of 'govment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Somnipractor REAGAN'S AMERICA: INNOCENTS AT HOME | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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