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kimpossible

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Mon Oct-08-07 03:22 PM
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Reagan for kids?

My 3rd grader needs to do a report for school about Pres. Reagan. Any pointers to a good reference site or book with kid-oriented and non-right-wing-slanted info?

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AlCzervik

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Mon Oct-08-07 03:24 PM
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1. yay he made Ketchup a vegetable! Anyhow, here is a link

it might help get your child started.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Reagan

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liberaldemocrat7

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Mon Oct-08-07 03:48 PM
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5. Ketchup appears a processed vegetable product but it doesn't substitute for a vegetable.

unless you drink 10 bottles of it. LOL

Gawd, can't your child skip this report and wait for a President worth writing about like Roosevelt, Carter, Clinton, Kennedy.

You can't encourage teachers to give Reagan any respect. He doesn't deserve respect as a president.

The only Republican Presidents I respect: Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

Reagan? partisan twit and creator of the 27 year reign of terror on the poor and middle class.

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SteppingRazor

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Mon Oct-08-07 03:26 PM
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2. You could always go with the recently released graphic novel:

http://www.amazon.com/Ronald-Reagan-Biography-Andrew-Helfer/dp/0809095076

Just came out last month!

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Turbineguy

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Mon Oct-08-07 03:42 PM
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3. A comic book about Reagan

how fantastically appropriate!

But that doesn't leave much of a format for the George W Bush biography...

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SteppingRazor

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Mon Oct-08-07 03:51 PM
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6. True enough.

For what it's worth, the graphic novel has been getting some pretty rave reviews. This month's Esquire gave it a big thumbs up.

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kimpossible

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Mon Oct-08-07 03:47 PM
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4. Thanks! And my own find:

There's a pretty good article at Sourcewatch:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ronald_Reagan

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Pyrzqxgl

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Mon Oct-08-07 07:31 PM
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7. TV Guide once profiled the Reagan movie "Kings Row"

"generally considered Ronald Reagan's best movie. He gets run over by a train". Why don't you have your 3rd grader do
a report about a future President who gets run over by a train.

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