Presidents and their books
"Despite having been dubbed an 'amiable dunce' by longtime White House adviser Clark Clifford, Ronald Reagan loved books, including (there we go again) Morris's works on Theodore Roosevelt. So much so, in fact,that Reagan selected Morris as his official biographer, resulting in Reagan's odd, semi-fictional portrayal in 'Dutch,' published in 1999.Reagan was the first president to consciously highlight the works of conservative intellectuals, citing Milton Friedman's 'Free To Choose' and George Gilder's 'Wealth and Poverty' to advance his economic policy agenda. The New Yorker's Larissa MacFarquhar has written that Gilder's book was one of Reagan's favorites and that Gilder was 'the living author Reagan most often quoted.'"
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