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Eugene Jarecki Biography

Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker whose works include The House I Live In, Reagan, Why We Fight, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Freakonomics, Quest of the Carib Canoe and THE KING. Why We Fight and The House I Live In were both were both awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, in 2005 and 2012 respectively. His most recent film, The King, will make its North American premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, following its international premiere at Cannes Film Festival in 2017. Beyond his work in film, Jarecki is also a public thinker on matters of U.S. defense, social justice, and foreign policy, and is the author of The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril (Simon & Schuster, 2008).

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There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

Advance, People, Reagan, Trying, Wrapping

Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's between shrill and extremist voices who alternately conceive of him either as an icon of all that's great and good or a representative of everything that's gone wrong with this country. And obviously neither is the case. He is just a man.

Americans, Conceive, Country, Fire, Man, Men

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

Mother, Growing Up, Father, Know, Holocaust, American

What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.

Black, Culprit, Drug, See, War

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

Lessons, Negative, Quite, Significant, Significant Things, Things

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

Antagonism, Oppression, Reagan, Soviet, Union, Unions

You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.

Discussion, Mentioning, Politics, Reagan, Ronald

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

Frivolous, Party, People, Reagan, Tea, Widespread

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

Past, Repeat, Teach, Teaches, Understanding

The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didnt do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.

Intelligent, Real, Script, Simple, Under

Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.

Figures, Portrayed, Quality, Reagan, Ronald, Simple

Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.

Eight, Emerging, Flexibility, Raised, Views, Years

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

Growing, Growing Up, People, Struggle, Think, Thinking

We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

Come, Fashion, Holocaust, Mean

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

Country, Democracy, Feet, Ideas, Supposed, Whole

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

Cons, Ends, Pros And Cons, Ronald, Servant

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

Complicated, Funny, Marvelous, Think, Thinking

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.

Criticism, Like, People, Political, Theater

Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.

Country, Deal, Fall, Folksy, Fraud, Heart