The Fulcrum: how Reagan was the pivotal point in conservatism

Ronald Reagan didn't invent the modern American right. He's the fulcrum it balances on, built by a thirty-year apprenticeship most retellings skip, then invoked by every wing of it since. Book One: the performer nobody was watching yet. Book Two: the public man, from the speech that announced him through the presidency people remember. Book Three: the canonization, the invocations that don't survive contact with his record, and what was really happening to him while the performance ran.