Dr. Wesley Borucki of Wellington recently published a biography of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States. Titled Ronald Reagan: Heroic Dreamer, it is published by Nova Science Publishers of Hauppauge, N.Y., as part of its “First Men, America’s Presidents” series.
It is the second book Borucki has written for the series. His biography of former President George H.W. Bush, George H.W. Bush: In Defense of Principle, was published in 2011.
Borucki is entering his 12th year as an associate professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where he teaches U.S. history survey courses, upper-level history courses, core humanities courses and honors seminars.
Borucki is originally from Birmingham, Mich. He earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Michigan State University, his master’s degree in U.S. history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his doctorate in U.S. history from the University of Alabama, where he also edited the journal Southern Historian in 1998-99.
Borucki also teaches for the Lifelong Learning Society at Florida Atlantic University’s Jupiter campus. Both Palm Beach Atlantic University and FAU’s Lifelong Learning Society gave him travel grants for his research at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif.
For more information about the book, visit www.novapublishers.com.
