What Would Reagan Do?

Life Lessons from the Last Great President

By: Chris Christie, Ellis Henican - contributor

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

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 40th 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.

©2024 Chris Christie (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio

Bravo

A Real Republican and Overall American Leader. President Reagan was the real deal, not like this Compulsive Egoistic Narcissist trump. Trump lacks everything President Reagan didnt... including the most important thing... Character.

Should be called “What Reagan Did”

The entire book I was wondering “when are we going to get to the part where Christie talks about what Reagan would do?”. Well that part never came. Perhaps there was a teensy bit of it in the epilogue. But hardly what the book or its description says it’s about. It sounds be called “ what Reagan Did” because it is just a very weak , albeit interesting, biography of Reagan. If I wanted it, but if I wanted to read a biography on Regan, it would not be authored by Chris Christie it would be by an actual historian or Regan’s biographer. Further, they took all the fun out of this book by having some guy not even with a New Jersey accent and who’s somewhat boring narrate the book. I thought it would be much better if Christie read it himself instead I had to imagine his intonations myself. So all in all I felt totally duped by this book. Could have been soooo much better to have Christie read a book that takes each of Reagan’s lessons and applies them methodically to current day situations.

Bad Narrator Choice

The book was okay, but the narrator gave me the sound of screeching nails on a chalkboard.