"But for those more interested in the politics of today, Shirley’s book has much to offer. In the late 70s, the country stagnated and staggered under the misrule of Carter and Congressional Democrats; yet even so, the American people were not sure that they wanted to turn the country over to Republicans, who bore the scars of both the Depression and Watergate. Happily for the GOP, Reagan was a different kind of Republican; he was not the candidate of the country clubbers. As he said in 1977, “The New Republican Party I envision will not be, and cannot be, one limited to the country club-big business image.” And for their part, country club Republicans regarded Reagan with suspicion--a suspicion fed, of course, by the media and the liberal establishment. As National Review wrote of Reagan back then, “It seems that no one likes him... except the voters.”"
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