Reagan was, in many respects, an ordinary man. One cannot say of Reagan, as one can say of Washington, Lincoln, or Churchill, that he possessed qualities so rare and outstanding that they evidently qualified him for greatness.
Yet the 1980s were an extraordinary period in world history. Inflation was subdued. The energy crisis came to an abrupt halt, and gas prices plummeted. After a period of stagnation and recession, the economy turned around and went into a juggernaut of growth. The Dow Jones average tripled. The silicon revolution began its transformation of the way we live and work. The Berlin Wall came crashing down, and the Soviet
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