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<p> The chapters that detail the assassination attempt and its immediate aftermath read like a thriller. In clear prose, we learn that Reagan was far closer to death than was previously thought. --David Baldacci, The Washington Post <p> A page-turner from beginning to end... You will learn a lot about an event that came razor-close to changing America forever. --Bill O'Reilly, author of the forthcoming Killing Lincoln: The Assassination that Changed America Forever <p> Newly revealing... A fast-paced book that captures many points of view. --Janet Maslin, The New York Times <p> A harrowing story, more so than it seemed at the time, and Wilber, a reporter for the Washington Post, has tracked down virtually everyone who had anything to do with protecting the President or with saving his life at the hospital. -- The New Yorker <p> In this eye-opening book of solid journalism, we learn just how close Ronald Reagan, code-named 'Rawhide' by the Secret Service, came to being the presiden

<p> Newly revealing... Mr. Wilber reconstructs an episode much more serious and dire than it has been made to seem. The courage of the president, the delicacy of the situation faced by his doctors and the sloppiness of security measures are all given new attention... A fast-paced book that captures many points of view. -- The New York Times (one of Janet Maslin's Recommended Books for 2011)<p> The chapters that detail the assassination attempt and its immediate aftermath read like a thriller. In clear prose, we learn that Reagan was far closer to death than was previously thought. --David Baldacci, The Washington Post <p> A page-turner from beginning to end... You will learn a lot about an event that came razor-close to changing America forever. --Bill O'Reilly, author of the forthcoming Killing Lincoln: The Assassination that Changed America Forever <p> A harrowing story, more so than it seemed at the time, and Wilber, a reporter for the Washington Post , has tracked down virtually everyone who had anything to do with protecting the President or with saving his life at the hospital. -- The New Yorker <p> In this eye-opening book of solid journalism, we learn just how close Ronald Reagan, code-named 'Rawhide' by the Secret Service, came to being the president with the second shortest time in office. --Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette <p> With a reporter's eye for detail and a screenwriter's talent for the cinematic, he invests such immediacy in Rawhide Down that the reader is thrust back 30 years in time. -- Richmond Times-Dispatch <p> A tense, riveting account of that day. -- Dallas Morning News <p> Detailed and dramatic... Mr. Wilber, a Washington Post crime reporter who writes clear, crisp prose, fleshes out his gripping narrative with a number of well-told side stories. -- The Washington Times <p> A riveting minute-by-minute account of the shooting and reveals that Reagan came closer to death than the public knew. -- New York Post <p> This intensely

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Del Quentin Wilber is an award-winning reporter for The Washington Post. He has spent most of his career covering law enforcement and sensitive security issues, and his work has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Visit the website for Rawhide Down at www.RawhideDown.com.

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