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Former special advisor and press secretary to Leader Ronald Reagan stocks a romantic, behind-the-scenes look inside the Reagan presidency - told through the films they watched jointly every week at Camp David. What did Leader Ronald Reagan think of Rocky IV? How does the Matthew Broderick film WarGames inform America's missile defense system? What Michael J. Fox movie made this impression on Leader Reagan that he believed compelled to say it in a conversation to the Joint Program of Congress? Over the course of eight years, Mark Weinberg travelled to Camp David each weekend with Ronald and Nancy Reagan. He was one of a few go for members invited in to the Aspen Lodge, where in fact the First Family screened both contemporary and classic films on Friday and Saturday times. They watched films in times of triumph, including the aftermath of Reagan's 1984 landslide, and after occasions of tragedy, including the explosion of the Challenger and the taking pictures of the president and Press Secretary Jim Brady. Weinberg's unparalleled access offers a uncommon view of the Reagans - unscripted, laid back, unburdened by the world, with no cameras around the corner. Each chapter talks about a legendary film and what the Reagans considered it and provides warm anecdotes and untold stories about his family and the administration. From Reagan's pranks on the trick Service to his thoughts on the parallels between Hollywood and Washington, Weinberg paints a complete picture of the president The New Yorker once famously dubbed "The Unknowable". Movie Evenings with the Reagans is a nostalgic trip through the 1980s and its most iconic films, seen through the sight of one of Hollywood's past stars: person who was simultaneously changing the Republican Party, the American current economic climate, and the span of the Cold War.
