John Patrick Diggins is the author of The Rise and Fall of the American Left, The Proud Decades: 1941-1960, and biographies of John Adams and Max Weber. He is a distinguished professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
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Following his departure from office, Ronald Reagan was marginalized from public interest. But like Lincoln, who was also attacked for decades after his death, Reagan deserves to be regarded as one of our greatest presidents, an exemplar of true conservati... SEE MORE