What is Ronald Reagan’s psychobiography?

Reagan’s personality and ideology reveal inconsistent traits, but his “take it easy” style and optimism made Reagan a passive-positive: “the receptive, complaint, other-directed character whose life is a search for affection as a reward for being agreeable and cooperative rather than personally assertive.” Several of his passive-positive orientation stand out. First Reagan’s aides described him even during crisis situations “as uninvolved in the planning process,’ ‘secluded,’ and ‘disconcertedly disengaged’.” Reagan “was more dependent than any other modern presidents on others to accomplish his aims. Reagan adhered to a simple “black and white” outlook and was uninterested in facts and unaffected by them. Reagan’s thirty years of show business, following scripts are written and directed by others, instilled a theatrical style in his performance. As he once revealingly commented, “Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then hell of a close.”

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