The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (ed. Canongate Books, 2007) - ISBN: 9781847673701