A good collection of thoughts that Reagan had accumulated over his life. (A gift from my daughter – what is it about my kids that give such great gift ideas?). Reagan collected short statements / quotations throughout his life. This is a collection of those notes that was recently found.

There are a couple of problems with the book. One is that the editor included a short descriptive list of the people who were the source of the statements. But the list is incomplete! Why have a list that is incomplete? Abraham Lincoln is in the list, but not Abba Elan (the former wasn’t necessary and lacking the later is deleting the ones that are valuable. While poor appendix does not degrade from the collection of notes, it fails to add the value it could have added.

The notes were organized and categorized by the editor – not by Reagan. This might help, but if there was some significance to the original order, it was lost to he readers (but presumably still extant at the Library).

Overall, I enjoyed the book. It is not one to sit and read I a day (but that works also) but one to pick up from time to time.