AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

REAGAN

LIFEGUARD

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM

“Lifeguard” follows Reagan from his youth in the American heartland to the triumph of his “revolution” in 1981. The program traces the origins of Reagan’s difficulty forming attachments to his itinerant childhood and a painful episode with his drunken father. The young boy turned to his mother and the teachings of her Fundamentalist church, The Disciples of Christ, which gave him a belief in predestination and a strong sense of good and evil.

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