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Carnegie Mellon professor Kiron Skinner, the first researcher granted access to Reagan's papers after [[Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan|Edmund Morris]], discovered a number of papers written in Reagan's own hand—mostly rough drafts intended for typists—in the Pre-Presidential Papers at the Reagan Library. Along with Annelise and Martin Anderson, both fellows at the [[Hoover Institution]], she set about editing and publishing these papers. The trio concentrated on the radio addresses Reagan wrote in the years immediately preceding his presidency.

Carnegie Mellon professor Kiron Skinner, the first researcher granted access to Reagan's papers after [[Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan|Edmund Morris]], discovered a number of papers written in Reagan's own hand—mostly rough drafts intended for typists—in the Pre-Presidential Papers at the Reagan Library. Along with Annelise and Martin Anderson, both fellows at the [[Hoover Institution]], she set about editing and publishing these papers. The trio concentrated on the radio addresses Reagan wrote in the years immediately preceding his presidency.

The finished volume produces typed copies of Reagan's drafts with most of his emendations intact. Several drafts are also reproduced photographically. The radio material is divided into philosophy, foreign policy, and domestic and economic policy. A fourth section includes various other writings from 1925 to his farewell letter of 1994. (The farewell letter, the last known example of Reagan's writing, is not reproduced photographically; a reproduction may be seen in Morris's [[Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan|''Dutch'']].) The book also includes a foreward by Reagan's [[Secretary of State]], George P. Schultz; an introduction with information on Reagan's writing habits, speaking techniques, and 1970s radio addresses; and an index of Reagan's radio addresses.

The finished volume produces typed copies of Reagan's drafts with most of his emendations intact. Several drafts are also reproduced photographically. The radio material is divided into philosophy, foreign policy, and domestic and economic policy. A fourth section includes various other writings from 1925 to his farewell letter of 1994. (The farewell letter, the last known example of Reagan's writing, is not reproduced photographically; a reproduction may be seen in Morris's [[Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan|''Dutch'']].) The book also includes a foreword by Reagan's [[Secretary of State]], George P. Schultz; an introduction with information on Reagan's writing habits, speaking techniques, and 1970s radio addresses; and an index of Reagan's radio addresses.

== Reception ==

== Reception ==