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Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home, by Garry Wills (Doubleday, 472 pp., $19.95)

This is a Garry Wills Special, typically overwhelming—and delicious —in its full-diapason deployment of its author’s many gifts. He brings everything into play around his subject: The short list includes Milton, Mark Twain, Alfred Hitchcock, St. Augustine, Alvin Gouldner, and Frank Sinatra. He combines wide-ranging cultural savvy with deep-focus reportage. You aren’t supposed to do all this in one book, but Wills, like Robert Burton, hasn’t got the news yet.

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Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home, by Garry Wills (Doubleday, 472 pp., $19.95)

This is a Garry Wills Special, typically overwhelming—and delicious —in its full-diapason deployment of its author’s many gifts. He brings everything into play around his subject: The short list includes Milton, Mark Twain, Alfred Hitchcock, St. Augustine, Alvin Gouldner, and Frank Sinatra. He combines wide-ranging cultural savvy with deep-focus reportage. You aren’t supposed to do all this in one book, but Wills, like Robert Burton, hasn’t got the news yet.