I just finished reading this book. There are some good stories in it. For example, the story about the joke Reagan liked to tell--about the extremely optimistic kid trying to find a pony in a pile of manure--"There must be a pony in here somewhere." The story conveys the optimism demonstrated by Reagan throughout his presidency. The other great story was about how "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" worked its way into the Reagan speech at Berlin Wall couple years before it really collapsed. The author himself was the speech writer, and he gave detailed account of how it was drafted, shaped, and finally delivered in its now well-known form. The better stories like the above appear in the first half of the book however. Overall I enjoyed reading it.