Pbs, Hbo Documentaries Mark Reagan's 100th Birthday

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Ronald Reagan was nearsighted.

The future 40th president of the United States couldn't read the blackboard as a schoolboy growing up in Illinois, and he was shocked when he was diagnosed as nearsighted.

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Pbs, Hbo Documentaries Mark Reagan's 100th Birthday

"He spent much of his young life instead in a fuzzy cocoon, in a way," notes Ron Reagan, the president's son and author of "My Father at 100" (Penguin, $29.95), an intimate and illuminating biography of his father.

"A fuzzy cocoon" might well describe Reagan's legacy. As America begins celebrating the centennial of his birth, the president's name has become a talisman for every politician - especially since his death in 2004. With the observance come documentaries and books...

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