💬 Opinion Sep 4, 2026 · Paul Kengor

Reagan and Gorbachev at the Brink at Reykjavik

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During the course of researching so many books on Ronald Reagan, I’ve thought to myself numerous times: Wow, that would make a great movie.
My colleague Mark Joseph thought the same. One day in 2004, he called about making one of my Reagan books a movie. Twenty years later, the movie became reality, based on my 2006 work, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, starring Dennis Quaid. That film is a deep dive into the life of Ronald Wilson Reagan, with the thread being his long cru

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