Redemption: How Ronald Reagan Nearly Ruined My Life
McVeigh, Barbara Irene / Gallagher, Siobhan
My father is a federal criminal. My father is a hero, " Barbara McVeigh writes in her memoir Redemption, How Ronald Reagan Nearly Ruined My Life. Reagan fired her father for a union strike in 1981, leading him and 11, 500 other families into years of strife. Just eleven years old, she lost her dream to become an oceanographer, and her beloved guitar lessons, as her family struggled emotionally and financially for years. She blamed her father f...