Perlstein stresses Reagan’s propensity to transform events into morality tales in which he was a hero and a wholesome innocent, a tendency he transports to the nation in the future. Perlstein states that the book is “a sort of biography of Ronald Reagan.” And a good portion of the book is about Reagan’s youth, his years in Hollywood, and his transformation from New Deal Democrat to right-wing Republican. Perlstein believes that this hubris endures, governing both parties in America today.ĭuring the years covered in the book, Reagan was governor of California in 19 and a presidential aspirant in 19, when he failed to wrest his party’s nomination from Gerald Ford. America’s chief bridge-builder was Ronald Reagan, who forged the cult of official optimism and virtue.
Nikita Khrushchev told Richard Nixon that if people believe that there is an imaginary river, leaders should not tell them the truth, but should build them an imaginary bridge.
Invisible Bridge is an old-fashioned study of American character from the unraveling of the Watergate scandal in 1973 through the 1976 presidential nominating conventions.
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