Teaching the American founding as the story of great statesmen gathering to create the first large-scale republic in human history out of sheer genius and public-spiritedness is not merely false ...

If the film is adulatory, though, it is also true and deserved: Reagan was one of the country’s great statesmen who prevailed ...

“He was a great statesman. He was someone whose word you could rely on. He was always concerned about the greater good. I don't ever recall any piece of legislation, any action he took in public ...