The 1980s were unique in both American history and the history of American cinema. It was a time when a United States president—a former B-movie actor and Col

Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times "Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope." —Rolling Stone Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman

Explores the relationship between the motion picture industry and American politics.

The former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares a “sentimental but often revealing…enjoyable walk down Memory Lane” (Kirk