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13 May 2026 Conversations with Tyler Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography
“I think he would have been offended to have been called a communist in those days.”
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- 13 May 2026
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…The very early Reagan, the Hollywood years, was he actually a communist or just a leftist? He was just a leftist. I think he would have been offended to have been called a communist in those days. He was still a patriot, but of course, he was a Democrat. Where he grew up in his hometown, there was a Democratic headquarters. Who ran it? His father did, and Ron came in to help him all the time, Ron and his brother. They were some of the only Democrats in that small city. It wasn’t until after World War II that he went to the other side of the aisle. What shifts him?…
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