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The life of Ronald Wilson Reagan is a story of unlikely successes. Born into a poor family, he came of age during the hard economics times of the Great Depression of the 1930's. Yet he was able to achieve great successes in two quite different fields-as an acto ....

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.... he advised her not to have any more children. So Ronald whose brother wouldn't look at him because he was a boy, became the second and last of the Reagan's children. John Edward Reagan, who was of Irish-American ancestry, earned his living as a shoe salesman. Alcoholism cursed the life of Jack Reagan. His older son Neil said bluntly that it prevented him form becoming a business success. However, Ronald blames the twin curse of drink and the Depression. Both boys escaped much of the bitterness which can afflict the children of alcoholics because their mother consoled them that their father's drinking " was a sickness" which deserved their ....