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Reagan Movie Reminds Us Why We Study History

September 5, 2024

Hollywood heartthrob. Wildly popular two-term president. Conservative icon.

 

Perhaps no American president of the past half-century has been as universally beloved as Ronald Reagan—the man who defeated Soviet communism and ushered in a new era of American peace and prosperity. On Friday, the Goldwater Institute was honored to host a special event at a movie theater in downtown Phoenix for our friends and supporters: a premiere showing of the new biographical drama film Reagan.

“We’re hoping that this film will teach current generations about a time in America when there was genuine unity,” Ronald Reagan historian and Grove City College professor of political science Paul Kengor told the Goldwater Institute. Kengor wrote the acclaimed biography upon which the film is based and  explained that Reagan’s “peaceful crusade to defeat Soviet communism without firing any missiles—and in fact winning the Cold War—is truly one of the great, feel-good stories of the past 50 years, if not in all of U.S. history.”

Movie-goers watched the actor Dennis Quaid bring the 40th president to life—all while munching on jellybeans, which were President Reagan’s favorite treat.

As Kengor put it: “Liberals and conservatives alike are longing for a president like Ronald Reagan again.”

 

 

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