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A Companion to Ronald Reagan evaluates in unprecedented
detail the events, policies, politics, and people of Reagan's
administration. It assesses the scope and influence of his various
careers within the context of the times, providing wide-ranging
coverage of his administration, and his legacy.
Assesses Reagan and his impact on the development of the United
States based on new documentary evidence and engagement
with the most recent secondary literature
Offers a mix of historiographic chapters devoted to foreign and
domestic policy, with topics integrated thematically and
chronologically
Includes a section on key figures associated politically and
personally with Reagan
Auteur
Andrew L. Johns is Associate Professor of History at
Brigham Young University and the David M. Kennedy Center for
International Studies. He is the author of Vietnam's
Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and
the War (2010), and the co-editor of The Eisenhower
Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold
War (with Kathryn C. Statler, 2006) and Diplomatic
Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since
1945 (with Heather L. Dichter, 2014). He is also the editor of
Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations Review.
Résumé
A Companion to Ronald Reagan evaluates in unprecedented detail the events, policies, politics, and people of Reagan's administration. It assesses the scope and influence of his various careers within the context of the times, providing wide-ranging coverage of his administration, and his legacy.
Contenu
Notes on Contributors viii
To Grasp and Hold a Vision: Ronald Reagan in Historical Perspective 1
Andrew L. Johns
Part I Ronald Reagan's Pre-Presidential Life and Career 7
Reagan's Early Years: From Dixon to Hollywood 9
John Sbardellati
Political Ideology and Activism to 1966 22
Lori Clune
Reagan's Gubernatorial Years: From Conservative Spokesperson to National Politician 40
Kurt Schuparra
Reagan Runs: His Campaigns for the Presidency, 1976, 1980, and 1984 54
Yanek Mieczkowski
Part II The Reagan Administration, 19811989 71
Domestic Policy: Politics and Economics 73
The Great Communicator: Rhetoric, Media, and Leadership Style 74
Reed L. Welch
Reagan and the Evolution of American Politics, 19811989 96
Andrew E. Busch
Ronald Reagan and the Supreme Court 117
Andrew E. Hunt
Reaganomics: The Fiscal and Monetary Policies 131
W. Elliot Brownlee
Reagan and the Economy: Business and Labor, Deregulation and Regulation 149
Michael R. Adamson
Reagan and the Military 167
Jonathan Reed Winkler
Domestic Policy: Social and Cultural Issues 184
Ronald Reagan, Race, Civil Rights, and Immigration 185
Lilia Fernandez
Reagan, Religion, and the Culture Wars of the 1980s 204
Matthew Avery Sutton
Reagan and AIDS 221
Jennifer Brier
The Crackdown in America: The Reagan Revolution and the War on Drugs 238
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Ronald Reagan's Environmental Legacy 257
Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Foreign Policy: Issues 275
Reagan, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War, 19811985 276
Michael V. Paulauskas
Shaking the Empire, or a Negotiated Settlement: Ronald Reagan and Visions of the Cold War's End 295
Gregory Mitrovich
The IranContra Affair 321
James F. Siekmeier
The Reagan Doctrine 339
Dustin Walcher
Reagan and Terrorism 359
Heather S. Gregg
Foreign Policy: Regions 377
Reagan and Africa 378
James H. Meriwether
Reagan and Western Europe 393
William Glenn Gray
Reagan and Asia 411
Michael Schaller
Reagan and Central America 434
Jason M. Colby
Reagan and the Middle East 453
Clea Bunch
Key Figures 469
Mikhail Gorbachev 470
Elizabeth C. Charles
The Vice Presidency of George H. W. Bush 491
Michael F. Cairo
Ronald Reagan, Tip O'Neill, and 1980s Congressional History 510
Robert David Johnson
The Troika: James Baker III, Edwin Meese III, and Michael Deaver 529
Christopher Maynard
A Foreign Policy Divided Against Itself: George Shultz versus Caspar Weinberger 546
Andrew Preston
Margaret Thatcher 565
Michael F. Hopkins
Part III The Legacy of Ronald Reagan 583
Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Movement 585
Sandra Scanlon
Reagan and Globalization 608
Thomas W. Zeiler
Reputation and Legacies: An American Symbol 626
Chester J. Pach
Index 644