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PREVIEW: RONALD REAGAN: Conversation with author Max Boot, "Reagan: The Life and Legend," re: the young Eureka College graduate's success in radio sports broadcasting as a warm-up for his Hollywood dream. More later this week.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: RONALD REAGAN: Conversation with author Max Boot, "Reagan: The Life and Legend," re: the young Eureka College graduate's success in radio sports broadcasting as a warm-up for his Hollywood dream. More later this week.

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This is John Batchel, a conversation with the author Max Boot.

0:35.4

His new book is Reagan, Life and Legend.

0:39.1

We address the radio days where Ronald Reagan,

0:42.1

just out of Eureka College,

0:43.9

during the depths of the Depression,

0:46.4

sought work on radio stations local.

0:49.2

But he was so successful,

0:50.7

he moved to larger stations calling Major League Baseball games, a hit making money for

0:57.5

he and his family. However, his ambition is Hollywood. Max Boot on the radio days of Ronald Reagan,

1:04.9

much more of this later in the week. Well, remember that in the early 1930s, I mean, Reagan graduated from college in 1932.

1:12.5

At that time, that was the pre-television age.

1:15.5

Radio was the mass communications medium along with movies.

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