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Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, wave to crowds from their limousine during Reagan's first inauguration parade in 1981.

How air conditioning got Ronald Reagan elected president

October 3, 2014Books

Ronald Reagan couldn’t have become president without Southern votes, and many of those votes simply wouldn’t have been there without the invention of air conditioning. Such innovations and their unforeseen consequences on history are the subject of a new book from Steven Johnson.

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