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ReganBooks was an American bestselling imprint or division of HarperCollins book publishing house (parent company is News Corporation), headed by editor and publisher Judith Regan, started in 1994 and ended in late 2006. During its existence, Regan was called, by LA Weekly, 'the world's most successful publisher'.[1] The division reportedly earned $120 million a year.[2] ReganBooks focused on celebrity authors and controversial topics, sometimes from recent tabloids.[3][4]

History and publications[edit]

Prominent ReganBooks titles include Jenna Jameson’s How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, biographies by General Tommy Franks, professional wrestler Mick Foley, and radio talk show host Howard Stern, three different books on the Scott Peterson case, and those by political commentator Sean Hannity. Though ultimately owned by politically active Rupert Murdoch, ReganBooks disavowed any political agenda, publishing, for example, books both supportive of and critical of George W. Bush.[5]

In August 2004, ReganBooks had three books on The New York Times Best Seller list, including the top two non-fiction positions, and the highest profit ratio at HarperCollins.[6]

In 2005, ReganBooks announced plans to move from Manhattan to Los Angeles, making it one of the first major book publishers to move from the east to the west coast.[1][3][4]

Controversy and closure[edit]

In November 2006, ReganBooks announced plans to publish O.J. Simpson's book If I Did It; publication was later cancelled by News Corporationchairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch.[2] After the public fallout Newsweek reported, 'Regan's meddlesome-free days are almost certainly over' and Murdoch will be 'clamping' down on control.[2]

On December 15, 2006, Regan was fired from HarperCollins, allegedly over anti-Semitic comments.[7] The staff at ReganBooks were reassigned within the HarperCollins General Book Group.[8]The New York Times reported that ReganBooks' offices were closed and 'a stunned Ms. Regan was confronted by security guards who arrived with boxes and ordered her to leave.'[7] Regan sued News Corporation for $100 million for defamation over the anti-Semitism charge, asserting that it was 'completely fabricated'; in January 2008 News Corporation settled the lawsuit and publicly stated, 'After carefully considering the matter, we accept Ms. Regan's position that she did not say anything that was anti-Semitic in nature, and further believe that Ms. Regan is not anti-Semitic.'[9]

Books published[edit]

  • Bodansky, Yossef. The Secret History of the Iraq War. (ReganBooks, 2005) ISBN0-06-073680-1
  • Boortz, Neal; Linder, John. The FairTax Book. (ReganBooks, 2005) ISBN978-0-06-087541-1
  • Bork, Robert H.Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline. (ReganBooks, 1996) ISBN0-06-039163-4.
  • Canseco, Jose. Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big. (ReganBooks, 2005) ISBN0-06-074640-8
  • Dickinson, Janice. No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel. (ReganBooks, 2002) ISBN0-06-000946-2
  • Dux, Frank. The Secret Man: An American Warrior's Uncensored Story. (ReganBooks, 1996) ISBN0-06-039152-9
  • Foley, Mick. Foley Is Good: And the Real World Is Faker than Wrestling. (ReganBooks, 2002) ISBN0-06-103241-7
  • Gibson, John. Hating America: The New World Sport. (ReganBooks, 2005) ISBN0-06-076051-6
  • Hannity, Sean. Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism (ReganBooks, 2004) ISBN0-06-058251-0
  • Hannity, Sean. Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism (ReganBooks, 2002) ISBN0-06-051455-8
  • Feldschuh, Michael. The September 11 Photo Project. (ReganBooks, 2002) ISBN0-06-050866-3
  • Jameson, Jenna. How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale. (ReganBooks, 2004) ISBN0-06-053909-7
  • Maguire, Gregory. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. (ReganBooks, 1995) ISBN0-06-039144-8
  • Payne, Patricia. Sex Tips from a Dominatrix. (ReganBooks, 1999) ISBN0-06-039287-8
  • Simpson, O.J. If I Did It. (Cancelled in November 2006)
  • Thompson, Paul. The Terror Timeline. (ReganBooks, 2004) ISBN0-06-078338-9
  • Taormino, Tristan. Down and Dirty Sex Secrets. (ReganBooks, 2003) ISBN0-06-098892-4

References[edit]

  1. ^ ab'The Gathering Storm'Archived 2008-07-08 at the Wayback Machine by Brendan Bernhard, LA Weekly, June 2, 2005
  2. ^ abcRoberts, Johnnie (December 2006). 'publishing: No More Free Rein For Regan'. Newsweek. Retrieved 2006-10-29.
  3. ^ ab'Trend-Setting Publisher Plans To Move to and Go Hollywood' by Edward Wyatt, The New York Times, April 12, 2005
  4. ^ ab'ReganBooks Moving to Hollywood'Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, The Book Standard, April 12, 2005
  5. ^'Political but Not Partisan: A Publisher Has It Both Ways', by Edward Wyatt, The New York Times, October 13, 2004
  6. ^'The Devil and Miss Regan' by Judith Newman, January 2005, Vanity Fair
  7. ^ abBosman, Julie; Siklos, Richard (December 18, 2006). 'Fired Editor's Remarks Said to Have Provoked Murdoch'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-12-18.
  8. ^Wyatt, Edward (December 15, 2006). 'Judith Regan Is Fired After O. J. Simpson Book'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-12-16.
  9. ^Italie, Hillel (January 25, 2008). 'Judith Regan Lawsuit Is Settled'. Associated Press.
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Alternative Title: Ronald Wilson Reagan

Ronald Reagan, in full Ronald Wilson Reagan, (born February 6, 1911, Tampico, Illinois, U.S.—died June 5, 2004, Los Angeles, California), 40th president of the United States (1981–89), noted for his conservativeRepublicanism, his fervent anticommunism, and his appealing personal style, characterized by a jaunty affability and folksy charm. The only movie actor ever to become president, he had a remarkable skill as an orator that earned him the title “the Great Communicator.” His policies have been credited with contributing to the demise of Soviet communism.

When was Ronald Reagan born?

Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois.

When did Ronald Reagan die?

Ronald Reagan died on June 5, 2004, in Los Angeles, California.

Where did Ronald Reagan go to school?

Ronald Reagan attended Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, where he played gridiron football and was active in the drama society but earned only passing grades. A popular student, he was elected class president in his senior year.

What was Ronald Reagan best known for?

Ronald Reagan rose to prominence initially as a film actor, appearing in more than 50 films, notably including Knute Rockne—All American (1940), Kings Row (1942), and The Hasty Heart (1950). Reagan later served as governor of California from 1967 to 1975, before being elected the 40th president of the United States in 1980.

How did Ronald Reagan change the world?

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Ronald Reagan is largely credited with the demise of Sovietcommunism during the 1980s. As president, he worked to reduce the threat of war between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., to convince Soviet leaders that cooperation with the U.S. would serve Soviet interests, and to encourage openness and democracy in the U.S.S.R.

Was Ronald Reagan a good president?

An assessment of Ronald Reagan’s legacy as U.S. president should take into account his administration’s domestic policies and its record in foreign affairs, including the Iran-Contra Affair. Brief summaries of Reagan’s accomplishments are available at ProCon.org.

Early life and acting career

Ronald Reagan was the second child of John Edward (“Jack”) Reagan, a struggling shoe salesman, and Nelle Wilson Reagan. Reagan’s nickname, “Dutch,” derived from his father’s habit of referring to his infant son as his “fat little Dutchman.” After several years of moving from town to town—made necessary in part because of Jack Reagan’s alcoholism, which made it difficult for him to hold a job—the family settled in Dixon, Illinois, in 1920. Despite their near poverty and his father’s drinking problem, Reagan later recalled his childhood in Dixon as the happiest period of his life. At Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, Reagan played gridiron football and was active in the drama society but earned only passing grades. A popular student, he was elected class president in his senior year. Graduating in 1932 with a bachelor’s degree in economics and sociology, he decided to enter radio broadcasting. He landed a job as a sportscaster at station WOC in Davenport, Iowa, by delivering entirely from memory an exciting play-by-play description of a Eureka College football game. Later he moved to station WHO in Des Moines, where, as sportscaster “Dutch Reagan,” he became popular throughout the state for his broadcasts of Chicago Cubs baseball games. Because the station could not afford to send him to Wrigley Field in Chicago, Reagan was forced to improvise a running account of the games based on sketchy details delivered over a teletype machine.

In 1937 Reagan followed the Cubs to their spring training camp in southern California, a trip he undertook partly in order to try his hand at movie acting. After a successful screen test at Warner Brothers, he was soon typecast in a series of mostly B movies as a sincere, wholesome, easygoing “good guy.” (As many observers have noted, the characters that Reagan portrayed in the movies were remarkably like Reagan himself.) During the next 27 years, he appeared in more than 50 films, notably including Knute Rockne—All American (1940), Kings Row (1942), and The Hasty Heart (1950). In 1938, while filming Brother Rat, Reagan became engaged to his costar Jane Wyman, and the couple married in Hollywood two years later. They had a daughter, Maureen, in 1941 and adopted a son, Michael, a few days after his birth in 1945. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1948. Reagan was the first president to have been divorced.

Commissioned a cavalry officer at the outbreak of World War II, Reagan was assigned to an army film unit based in Los Angeles, where he spent the rest of the war making training films. Although he never left the country and never saw combat, he and Wyman cooperated with the efforts of Warner Brothers to portray him as a real soldier to the public, and in newsreels and magazine photos he acted out scenes of “going off to war” and “coming home on leave.” After leaving Hollywood, Reagan became known for occasionally telling stories about his past—including stories about his happiness at “coming back from the war”—that were actually based on fictional episodes in movies. Some of Reagan’s detractors pointed to such lapses to suggest that he lacked a basic interest in the truth and that he had trouble distinguishing between reality and fantasy.

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Reagan had absorbed the liberal Democratic opinions of his father and became a great admirer of Franklin Roosevelt after his election in 1932. Reagan’s father eventually found work as an administrator in a New Deal office established in the Dixon area, a fact that Reagan continued to appreciate even after his political opinion of Roosevelt had dramatically changed.

From 1947 to 1952 Reagan served as president of the union of movie actors, the Screen Actors Guild. He fought against communist infiltration in the guild, crossing picket lines to break the sometimes violent strikes. (Such violence and chaos were abhorrent to Reagan, and, when police and students clashed in Berkeley in May 1969, Reagan, as governor of California, called out the National Guard to restore order.) Much to the disgust of union members, he testified as a friendly witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee and cooperated in the blacklisting of actors, directors, and writers suspected of leftist sympathies. Although Reagan was still a Democrat at the time (he campaigned for Harry Truman in the presidential election of 1948), his political opinions were gradually growing more conservative. After initially supporting Democratic senatorial candidate Helen Douglas in 1950, he switched his allegiance to Republican Richard Nixon midway through the campaign. He supported Republican Dwight Eisenhower in the presidential elections of 1952 and 1956, and in 1960 he delivered 200 speeches in support of Nixon’s campaign for president against Democrat John F. Kennedy. He officially changed his party affiliation to Republican in 1962.

Reagan met Nancy Davis (Nancy Reagan), a relatively unknown actress, at a dinner party in 1949, and the two were married in a simple ceremony in 1952, at which actor William Holden was best man. The Reagans appeared together in the war movie Hell Cats of the Navy in 1957. Nancy Reagan’s conservative political views encouraged her husband’s drift to the right.

After his acting career began to decline in the 1950s, Reagan became the host of a television drama series, General Electric Theater, as well as spokesman for the General Electric Company. In the latter capacity he toured GE plants around the country, delivering inspirational speeches with a generally conservative, pro-business message. Eventually, however, his speeches became too controversial for the company’s taste, and he was fired as both spokesman and television host in 1962.

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February 6, 1911
Tampico, Illinois
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Los Angeles, California
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  • The second time he was elected president Reagan won 525 of the 538 electoral votes, which is the largest number ever won by a candidate.
  • Ronald Reagan submitted the first request for a trillion-dollar budget during his presidency, in 1987.
  • Ronald Reagan was nicknamed 'The Great Communicator'.
  • Ronald Reagan gave his first policy speech regarding AIDS in 1987 after the death of a friend from HIV/AIDS, about 7 years and 20,000 deaths into the AIDS crisis.




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