Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
“To Grasp and Hold a Vision”: Ronald Reagan in Historical Perspective 1Andrew L. Johns
Part I Ronald Reagan’s Pre-Presidential Life and Career 7
1. Reagan’s Early Years: From Dixon to Hollywood 9John Sbardellati
2. Political Ideology and Activism to 1966 22Lori Clune
3. Reagan’s Gubernatorial Years: From Conservative Spokesperson to National Politician 40Kurt Schuparra
4. Reagan Runs: His Campaigns for the Presidency, 1976, 1980, and 1984 54Yanek Mieczkowski
Part II The Reagan Administration, 1981–1989 71
Domestic Policy: Politics and Economics 73
5. The Great Communicator: Rhetoric, Media, and Leadership Style 74Reed L. Welch
6. Reagan and the Evolution of American Politics, 1981–1989 96Andrew E. Busch
7. Ronald Reagan and the Supreme Court 117Andrew E. Hunt
8. “Reaganomics”: The Fiscal and Monetary Policies 131W. Elliot Brownlee
9. Reagan and the Economy: Business and Labor, Deregulation and Regulation 149Michael R. Adamson
10. Reagan and the Military 167Jonathan Reed Winkler
Domestic Policy: Social and Cultural Issues 184
11. Ronald Reagan, Race, Civil Rights, and Immigration 185Lilia Fernandez
12. Reagan, Religion, and the Culture Wars of the 1980s 204Matthew Avery Sutton
13. Reagan and AIDS 221Jennifer Brier
14. The Crackdown in America: The Reagan Revolution and the War on Drugs 238Jeremy Kuzmarov
15. Ronald Reagan’s Environmental Legacy 257Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Foreign Policy: Issues 275
16. Reagan, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War, 1981–1985 276Michael V. Paulauskas
17. Shaking the Empire, or a Negotiated Settlement: Ronald Reagan and Visions of the Cold War’s End 295Gregory Mitrovich
18. The Iran–Contra Affair 321James F. Siekmeier
19. The Reagan Doctrine 339Dustin Walcher
20. Reagan and Terrorism 359Heather S. Gregg
Foreign Policy: Regions 377
21. Reagan and Africa 378James H. Meriwether
22. Reagan and Western Europe 393William Glenn Gray
23. Reagan and Asia 411Michael Schaller
24. Reagan and Central America 434Jason M. Colby
25. Reagan and the Middle East 453Clea Bunch
Key Figures 469
26. Mikhail Gorbachev 470Elizabeth C. Charles
27. The Vice Presidency of George H. W. Bush 491Michael F. Cairo
28. Ronald Reagan, Tip O'Neill, and 1980s Congressional History 510Robert David Johnson
29. The Troika: James Baker III, Edwin Meese III, and Michael Deaver 529Christopher Maynard
30. A Foreign Policy Divided Against Itself: George Shultz versus Caspar Weinberger 546Andrew Preston
31. Margaret Thatcher 565Michael F. Hopkins
Part III The Legacy of Ronald Reagan 583
32. Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Movement 585Sandra Scanlon
33. Reagan and Globalization 608Thomas W. Zeiler
34. Reputation and Legacies: An American Symbol 626Chester J. Pach
Index 644