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“Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and gleaming teeth. It destroyed Senator Joe McCarthy by showing him in action and it created Jerry Falwell.”

Quote by Ronald Steel

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According to limited available information, Ronald Steel is a writer born on March 25, 1931. Detailed biographical information about this individual is scarce in publicly available sources. more

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