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To be sure, when President Donald Trump tore up the Trans-Pacific Partnership at the beginning of his term—a free-trading agreement and the capstone of an American-led democrat-trending order in Asia—he left the Eurasian supercontinent with only one big, overarching idea: that of the Belt and Road Initiative.
So I decided shortly after to start a competing project, which I intended to be just one single large volume that emulated Arthur Schlesinger’s Age of Roosevelt—not biography as such but an ensemble political chronicle with Reagan as its main character—but when Morris finally came out with the insane and bizarre Dutch, it was so incompetent and inadequate that my project expanded and became two volumes, which is almost unheard of today for any American author not named “Robert Caro.” It ended up dominating ten years of my life—maybe the best ten years of it, though, because nothing was as fun as that. Had Deaver and Nancy Reagan picked David McCulloch (he was under consideration) instead, I doubt I ever would have taken up the subject.
// Though not a true biography, Hayward's two-volume effort remains the best political biography/chronology of Reagan - just stellar. Wish we could get him to town to lecture.
// Though not a true biography, Hayward's two-volume effort remains the best political biography/chronology of Reagan - just stellar. Wish we could get him to town to lecture.
Former neocon Max Boot is burning down the house he once lived in. will his new liberal friends make room for him in theirs?