Ronald Reagan, the Movie: And Other Episodes in Political Demonology
enlarge	Author: Rogin Publisher: University of California Press Category: Book List Price: ~~Ł15.95~~ Buy New: Ł15.15 You Save: Ł0.80 (5%) Rating: 1 reviews Sales Rank: 1147464 Media: Paperback Pages: 480 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.3 x 1.1 ISBN: 0520064690 Dewey Decimal Number: 320.973 EAN: 9780520064690 ASIN: 0520064690 Publication Date: July 1, 1992 Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping Availability: Usually dispatched within 1 to 3 weeks


Customer Reviews: Not worthwhile reading July 12, 1999 0 out of 2 found this review helpful Leftist author Michael Rogin criticizes political demonology in this tome, but often commits the sin he accuses others of. In ignoring any evidence that would counter his worldview, Rogin does a fine job of demonizing those whom he disagrees with. What else do we expect from a Berkeley man though? He writes at one point about the confusion of Berkeley students in seeing a movie where Reagan fought the KKK, since they felt he would more logically side with them. While Reagan was hardly a civil rights crusader or color-blind, the notion that he sided with the KKK is one that can only be found at an insulated, close-minded place like Berkeley. The students' inability to distinguish film from reality or opinion from fact is true in Rogin as well. Time after time, he reads too much into the movies he analyzes, obviously knowing what the director intended better than the director himself did. Full of art-critic language, this book can be humorous, and it does contain some interesting factoids (like Woodrow Wilson's role in creating the racist Birth of a Nation) but overall its close-mindedness and overanalyzation wear on you and bore you. Not recommended unless you have plenty of free time and are willing to salvage the few useful morsels of knowledge contained in the work.