Tear Down This Myth

How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future

February 19, 2009, 6:30pm – 7:30pm

About This Event

Two decades after leaving office, the legend of Ronald Reagan looms larger than ever over America's political life. The misplaced hero worship was perpetuated even more last year by 2008's Republican presidential hopefuls - running on platforms that distorted or exaggerated the real Reagan in an effort to be seen as the political heir to the Gipper. In Tear Down This Myth – How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future, author Will Bunch dispels the Reagan mythology driving much of our modern politics and takes readers inside the Reagan myth machine.

Copies of Tear Down This Myth will be available for purchase at the event.

Featured Author:
Will Bunch, author, Tear Down This Myth

Moderated by:
David Brock, founder and Chief Executive Officer, Media Matters for America

Location

Center for American Progress Action Fund
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Media Matters for America is a not-for-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Media Matters is the first organization to systematically monitor the media for conservative misinformation every day, in real time.