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Stealing From The Master
Suburban Guerrilla — Will Bunch has an L.A. Times op-ed on how Obama might want to take a few communication hints from Ronald Reagan. (You can buy Will’s new book here. Guess what it’s about!)

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Whiskey Fire — ... Buy Will Bunch's book or else you suck. Buy it here.

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The Sideshow — ... says his book, Tear Down This Myth, will be released in a few days, and it starts like this: "It was Ronald Reagan himself who, as the spotlight faded on his presidency in 1988, tried to highlight his eight-year record by reviving a quote from John Adams, that 'facts are stubborn things.' The moment became quite famous because the then-77-year-old president had botched it, and said that 'facts are stupid things.' The tragedy of American politics was that just two decades later, facts were neither stubborn nor even stupid - but largely irrelevant." And he ...

Will Bunch: Obama's Plan Is About Dreams, Not Dollars
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Over the last three decades, we've all been grappling with the meaning of the American Dream, the meaning of hope. I learned this over the last year as I researched my new book, "Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future." A key to the Reagan myth was that the 40th president -- who told Americans reeling from stagflation and a hostage crisis overseas -- told the nation frequently that " ...