Last Act

Ronald Reagan is one of my favorite presidents.  I grew up with him and watch him give powerful speech, many time from the oval office. ( not to many presidents do that anymore).  I have read Reagan's autobiography and loved it.  I was hoping a book would come along that would showcase is last few years of his life.
One such book finally came and I had high hopes for it, only to be disappointed.  Craig Shirley new book Last Act is one that I hoped would be better than it was.  Now don't get me wrong Mr Shirley is one of the few great biographer of Ronald Reagan. But I think he came up short on this book.
I felt that it was more about what was going on in the world around the time of Reagan's death.  Talking about George W Bush and how the country looked down about him and how he was coming off the victory with Kerry.  I have to admit I only got about 100 pages in before I moved on to something else.  I just felt there was a lot of fluff that was in the pages and not enough focus on the ex president.  Now I am sure if I continued to read that I would have maybe found that to be true but for me I just could not continue. I was very disappointed.

I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review of this book from the Thomas Nelson Company. My review is mine and mine alone.