The essays in this volume attempt to assess the foreign relations policies of the Reagan presidency while trying to make sense of Reagan's apparent inconsistencies. The contributors address US relations with the Soviet Union, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Western Europe, and Africa.
Essays by seven historians. John Lewis Gaddis argues that Reagan's record of dealing with the Soviets is equal or superior to that of Nixon and Kissinger; Akira Iriye praises the...
All students of the era as well as diplomatic historians and international affairs specialists will find provocative and insightful observations in this volume.
... Sidney, 51 Boesky, Ivan, 147 Boll Weevils, 33 Boom-and-bust financial cataclysms, 107 Brat Pack, 197–198 Bratton, ... 132–134, 171–178 Brobeck, Stephen, 149 Brock, James W., 146–147 Brock, William, 61 Brooks, Van Wyck, 300 INDEX.
Analyzes the aims and goals of the Reagan administration's foreign policy, looks at arms control and nuclear proliferation, and discusses U.S. intervention in South America.
The Peacemaker reveals how Reagan’s White House waged the Cold War while managing multiple crises around the globe.
A riveting, real-life thriller about 1983--the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear Armageddon The year 1983 was...
This is the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable summit conference.
Reagan’s Legacy in a World Transformed offers a timely retrospective on the fortieth president’s policies and impact on today’s world, from the influence of free market ideas on economic globalization, to the role of an assertive ...
"This ground-breaking book weaves an exciting, never-before-told story of Ronald Reagan's first quest for the presidency in the late 1960s.
In When Character Was King, Noonan brings her own reflections on Reagan to bear as well as new stories—from Presidents George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, his Secret Service men and White House colleagues, his wife, his ...