Ronald Reagan’s early life was not easy as the son of a long-suffering mother and alcoholic father, whose continued firing from jobs put the family on the move.

A new biography of Ronald Reagan will give a definitive look at the late president’s life and White House tenure. Reagan: His Life and Legend, written by historian and Washington Post columnist ...

In Reagan: An American Journey, a mammoth new biography, the historian Bob Spitz takes a closer look at the inner life of the 40 th president by examining his background and childhood, using his ...

Trained early in life by his evangelical Christian mother, he never forgot the lessons she taught him. And in the Oval Office he became a history-changing champion of religious liberty.

Love for America. The dignity of work. Empathy for others. Intolerance for bigotry. Faith in God’s Divine Plan. Our 40th President lived his values, and his Midwest upbringing shaped them.

Ronald Reagan died after a ten-year battle with the mind-deteriorating effects of Alzheimer's disease. Mr. Reagan was largely shielded from public view after his disease was revealed in 1994, but ...

Ronald Reagan’s political life and mine began on the same day–Election Day 1966–when he was elected governor of California and I was elected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee.