Rawhide Down : The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan (Paperback)

from Berkshires

A highly detailed and fascinating look at the events of that day in March 1981 when President Ronald Reagan was shot. A real page turner for anyone with an interest in the events of that day, whether that interest be in Ronald Reagan the man, or Ronald Reagan the President. I highly recommend thi...

from EMYeak

This book immediately captured my interest. It is a detailed look at the near assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. Author Wilber provides an in depth look at the events of the day. He describes preparations made by the Secret Service and how the President started his day. B...

from corgiiman

This was a book thoroughly researched and rich with details. A book which described what characters in this tragedy were thinking and the professsionalism as each character did their job in saving the lives of all four men injured in the assassination attempt. This book kept me enthralled to the ...

from mrtall

Rawhide Down is a detailed account of that fateful day in 1981 when John Hinckley gunned down President Ronald Reagan and several members of his party outside a hotel in Washington DC. This was of course a momentous day, but it seems in recent years it's faded quite drastically into the cultural ...

from karenweyant

I was very young when Ronald Reagan was shot, and knew very little about the events leading up to (and afterwards...) of this historical moment. I expected Rawhide Down to be a long drawn out political read, but it wasn't. In fact, Del Quentin Wilber's book details that fateful days like a noveli...