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With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America's last great president?A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?, Christie takes a fresh look at President Ronald Reagan's character-driven political instincts and deeply impactful relationships across party lines--finding plenty of compelling insights for our current national dysfunction.In each chapter, Christie spells out a lesson from a different point in Reagan's journey, then ties all those lessons to the national challenges of today.When Reagan turned from Hollywood to politics, America was at another breaking point. The economy was battered. Trust in government was at an all-time low. US foreign policy was an embarrassment, and Western ideals were facing enormous challenges in the world, especially from the Russians and the Chinese.Sound familiar? Enter a fading actor who would become the fortieth president of the United States.Countless books have been written about President Reagan's strong conservative leadership. But Christie says few people fully appreciate the clarity of vision and subtle human relations skills that Reagan brought to the negotiating table and into the political realm. Reagan had a remarkable ability to find common ground across party lines--as Christie puts it, to ""compromise without being compromised."" Building on lessons from his own hardscrabble upbringing, Reagan transformed the Republican Party and the political landscape forever.Two decades after Reagan's death, Christie shows how the life lessons of the beloved president are more alive than ever--and can restore American leadership again.

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Chris Christie is an American politician, former United States Attorney, and political commentator who served as the fifty-fifth governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. During his tenure, he chaired the Republican Governors Association and President Trump's Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission. Christie became an ABC News contributor in 2018 after leaving office. Mickey Bergman directs the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, a non-governmental, non-profit organization that negotiates the release of political prisoners and hostages around the world. A special-operations veteran of the Israel Defense Forces, he has spent the past decade freeing Americans from some of the most complex and insulated countries on earth, including Iran, North Korea, Russia, Venezuela, Syria, Gambia and Sudan. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service, where his graduate courses focus on the art of emotional intelligence in international relations. He was nominated for the 2019 and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize alongside former Governor Bill Richardson. Ellis Henican is a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist and a New York Times bestselling author. His website is henican.com. Danny Campbell is an Earphones Award-winning narrator and an actor who has appeared in CBS' The Guardian, the films A Pool, a Fool, and a Duel and Greater Than Gravity, and in over twenty-five commercials. He is a company member of the Independent Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles and is an adjunct faculty member at Santa Monica College.

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