Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Lou Cannon

 
Interest in reading about Ronald Reagan looks to be down to zero.

Maybe Scooter can go on a rescue mission.



Source:  LINKcat

New York Times, 12/20/2025

A celebrated journalist and author, Mr. Cannon covered Reagan for decades, first in California during the first of Reagan’s two terms as governor, and then as the senior White House correspondent for The Washington Post during Reagan’s two-term presidency in the 1980s, an era of rising American confidence that set the stage for nuclear détente and the end of the Cold War. 
In a crowded publishing niche — the number of books on Reagan easily exceeds 1,000 — Mr. Cannon was widely regarded as a foremost authority on the president. He had extraordinary access, traveled with Reagan, interviewed him some 100 times and admired and respected him. Yet his half-dozen books on the president were never adoring. Indeed, reviewers generally found them to be models of objective reporting whose assessments of Reagan tended toward the negative.




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