The Mikado
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« on: September 06, 2022, 09:34:58 PM » |
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Highly recommend Perlstein's The Invisible Bridge for anyone who hasn't read it. It has a mini-biography of Ronald Reagan buried in the middle of a much larger book, essentially.
Per Perlstein, Reagan's turn to the GOP basically happens as a direct result of him becoming head of SAG. Unlike most unions, SAG was basically de facto management and was on the same side as the old studio bosses. Reagan, actor who always resented the fact that Jack Warner and the other old studio bosses were unwilling to make him a leading man and his wife far outshone him, was a Democrat. Reagan, head of SAG and making a fortune on the business side of Hollywood and testifying to HUAC as to which of his members were Communists, started seeing things from the other side of the table. Then he got a big contract from General Electric and soon became the biggest booster for corporate America in the country and never looked back.
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