View of a clip of President Reagan's famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech in which he asks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Video courtesy of Reagan Presidential Library.

Brands’s new biography of Ronald Reagan ... Standing before Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in 1987, he directly challenged the Kremlin, saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” ...

This has been the trajectory of Ronald Reagan and his reputation ... not to be moved by Reagan’s 1987 “tear down this wall” in Berlin every time you hear it. Like Lincoln or Truman, Reagan ...