Craig Shirley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetCraig Shirley
American political consultant
Date of Birth: 24-Sep-1956
Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, United States
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Craig Shirley
- Craigan Paul Shirley (born September 24, 1956) is an American author, lecturer, historian and public affairs consultant.
- He has written four bestsellers on Ronald Reagan which include Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (2014), Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All (2005), and Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan (2015), and Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980 (2017).
- He is also the author of Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative (2017), the only authorized biography of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's early career.
- Shirley is now at work on three new books on Reagan and his book, Mary Ball Washington, a biography about George Washington’s mother, Mary Ball Washington, is due out in late November 2019. Shirley also wrote December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World, a New York Times bestseller published in December 2011 about the attack on Pearl Harbor and its effects on the American people and culture.
- Most of Shirley's books have gone to paperback.
- Several documentaries have been produced based in part on the 1976 and 1980 Reagan campaign and December 1941, for the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, Shirley earned a degree in History and Political Science from Springfield College.
- Shirley was named by the London Telegraph, "the best of the Reagan biographers" Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard called him "a prominent biographer of Ronald Reagan," Mark Levin called him "one of the best of the Reagan biographers," and the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard, said Shirley is a "noted Ronald Reagan biographer.” Laura Ingraham has often noted Shirley's authority as a Reagan scholar, and author Romesh Ratnesar noted in a review in The New York Times that he "is a sure-footed and entertaining observer of the hurly-burly of national politics." Reagan's former speechwriter Aram Bakshian refers to him as "the best source for understanding Ronald Reagan." Shirley's third book on Reagan’s final years, the topic which had never been covered before, Last Act, was also highly praised for its rich writing and intricate detail and research.
- With regard to his fourth book, Reagan Rising, and Reagan speechwriter Clark Judge called Shirley "the most prolific and….most influential" of the Reagan biographers.
- He compared Shirley’s writings to the Greek general Thucydides, who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War, after fighting in it.
- “Reading Craig Shirley has become essential for any Ronald Reagan student,” said Judge.Shirley has also written numerous articles and given dozens of lectures about the life and times and lessons of Ronald Reagan.
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