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The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Holt
March 2011
On Sale: March 15, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 080509346X
EAN: 9780805093469
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination
of Ronald Reagan, to coincide with the thirtieth
anniversary On March 30, 1981, President Ronald
Reagan was just seventy days into his first term of office
when John Hinckley Jr. opened fire outside the Washington
Hilton Hotel, wounding the president, press secretary James
Brady, a Secret Service agent, and a D.C. police officer.
For years, few people knew the truth about how close the
president came to dying, and no one has ever written a
detailed narrative of that harrowing day. Now, drawing on
exclusive new interviews and never-before-seen documents,
photos, and videos, Del Quentin Wilber tells the
electrifying story of a moment when the nation faced a
terrifying crisis that it had experienced less than twenty
years before, the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy. With cinematic clarity, we see Secret Service
agent Jerry Parr, whose fast reflexes saved the president's
life; the brilliant surgeons who operated on Reagan as he
was losing half his blood; and the small group of White
House officials frantically trying to determine whether the
country was under attack. Most especially, we encounter the
man code-named "Rawhide," a leader of uncommon grace who
inspired affection and awe in everyone who worked with
him. Ronald Reagan was the only serving U.S. president
to survive being shot in an assassination attempt.*
Rawhide Down is the first true record of the day and
events that literally shaped Reagan's presidency and sealed
his image in the modern American political
firmament. *There have been many assassination
attempts on U.S. presidents, four of which were successful:
Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and
John F. Kennedy. President Theodore Roosevelt was injured in
an assassination attempt after leaving office.
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