When I was growing up, I remember whenever people mention President Ronald Reagan, they always

mention that he was an actor. And there was always a slight sense of disbelief about it,

like it was such an unusual thing for a former actor to have risen to the presidency. In fact,

in one of the most iconic moments in the hit 1985 movie Back to the Future, Doc Brown reacts incredulously when hearing that Ronald Reagan was president in 1985, since he only knew Reagan as an actor.

Somehow this supposedly B-movie actor ended up becoming president of the United States and changed American politics forever.

How did this happen? Our guest today has some insight on that question. He is Professor Paul

Kanger of Grove City College. And among other things, he's a visiting fellow at the Hoover

Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at

Stanford University. He's one of the foremost experts on President Reagan's life and has

written multiple books on President Reagan, including The Crusader, Ronald Reagan, and the Fall of

Communism.

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