Reagan: The Life

Reading Level
Grade 9
Time to Read
19 hrs 39 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of Reagan: The Life?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Reagan: The Life is 8th and 9th grade.

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Reagan: The Life

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 8
SMOG Index Grade 11
Coleman Liau Index Grade 10
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 6

Reading Time

19 hrs 39 mins

How long to read Reagan: The Life?

The estimated word count of Reagan: The Life is 294,655 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 19 hrs 39 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 32 hrs 45 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 10 hrs 55 mins.

Reagan: The Life - 294,655 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 32 hrs 45 mins
Average 250 words/min 19 hrs 39 mins
Fast 450 words/min 10 hrs 55 mins
Reagan: The Life by H. W. Brands
Authors
H. W. Brands

More about Reagan: The Life

294,655 words

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for Reagan: The Life

31 hours and 41 minutes

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Description

From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative president In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys with sweep and vigor how the confident force of Reagan’s personality and the unwavering nature of his beliefs enabled him to engineer a conservative revolution in American politics and play a crucial role in ending communism in the Soviet Union. Reagan shut down the age of liberalism, Brands shows, and ushered in the age of Reagan, whose defining principles are still powerfully felt today.      Reagan follows young Ronald Reagan as his ambition for ever larger stages compelled him to leave behind small-town Illinois to become first a radio announcer and then that quintessential public figure of modern America, a movie star. When his acting career stalled, his reinvention as the voice of The General Electric Theater on television made him an unlikely spokesman for corporate America. Then began Reagan’s improbable political ascension, starting in the 1960s, when he was first elected governor of California, and culminating in his election in 1980 as president of the United States.     Employing archival sources not available to previous biographers and drawing on dozens of interviews with surviving members of Reagan’s administration, Brands has crafted a richly detailed and fascinating narrative of the presidential years. He offers new insights into Reagan’s remote management style and fractious West Wing staff, his deft handling of public sentiment to transform the tax code, and his deeply misunderstood relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, on which nothing less than the fate of the world turned.       Reagan is a storytelling triumph, an irresistible portrait of an underestimated politician whose pragmatic leadership and steadfast vision transformed the nation.