This morning’s News & Observer features an opinion column from Princeton historian Sean Wilentz criticizing a proposal to substitute Ronald Reagan’s face for Ulysses S. Grant’s on the $50 bill. (It’s an idea U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-10th, has touted.)
I have no dog in the fight, but it’s important to point out that Wilentz is no fan of the 40th president, despite having written a book titled The Age of Reagan. As chronicled in this forum, that volume “serves as the vehicle for an attack on Reagan?s politics, a defense of the Clinton
administration, and a rehash of the lawyer?s brief for the case of the ‘stolen’ election of 2000.”
If the title The Age of Reagan intrigues you, try Steven Hayward‘s superior two-volume political biography instead.
