A Companion to Ronald Reagan

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

Autorentext

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.

Zusammenfassung

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

Inhalt
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

1. Reagan's Early Years: From Dixon to Hollywood 9
   John Sbardellati

2. Political Ideology and Activism to 1966 22
   Lori Clune

3. Reagan's Gubernatorial Years: From Conservative Spokesperson to National Politician 40
   Kurt Schuparra

4. 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

5. The Great Communicator: Rhetoric, Media, and Leadership Style 74
   Reed L. Welch

6. Reagan and the Evolution of American Politics, 19811989 96
   Andrew E. Busch

7. Ronald Reagan and the Supreme Court 117
   Andrew E. Hunt

8. Reaganomics: The Fiscal and Monetary Policies 131
   W. Elliot Brownlee

9. Reagan and the Economy: Business and Labor, Deregulation and Regulation 149
   Michael R. Adamson

10. Reagan and the Military 167
    Jonathan Reed Winkler

Domestic Policy: Social and Cultural Issues 184

11. Ronald Reagan, Race, Civil Rights, and Immigration 185
    Lilia Fernandez

12. Reagan, Religion, and the Culture Wars of the 1980s 204
    Matthew Avery Sutton

13. Reagan and AIDS 221
    Jennifer Brier

14. The Crackdown in America: The Reagan Revolution and the War on Drugs 238
    Jeremy Kuzmarov

15. Ronald Reagan's Environmental Legacy 257
    Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Foreign Policy: Issues 275

16. Reagan, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War, 19811985 276
    Michael V. Paulauskas

17. Shaking the Empire, or a Negotiated Settlement: Ronald Reagan and Visions of the Cold War's End 295
    Gregory Mitrovich

18. The IranContra Affair 321
    James F. Siekmeier

19. The Reagan Doctrine 339
    Dustin Walcher

20. Reagan and Terrorism 359
    Heather S. Gregg

Foreign Policy: Regions 377

21. Reagan and Africa 378
    James H. Meriwether

22. Reagan and Western Europe 393
    William Glenn Gray

23. Reagan and Asia 411
    Michael Schaller

24. Reagan and Central America 434
    Jason M. Colby

25. Reagan and the Middle East 453
    Clea Bunch

Key Figures 469

26. Mikhail Gorbachev 470
    Elizabeth C. Charles

27. The Vice Presidency of George H. W. Bush 491
    Michael F. Cairo

28. Ronald Reagan, Tip O'Neill, and 1980s Congressional History 510
    Robert David Johnson

29. The Troika: James Baker III, Edwin Meese III, and Michael Deaver 529
    Christopher Maynard

30. A Foreign Policy Divided Against Itself: George Shultz versus Caspar Weinberger 546
    Andrew Preston

31. Margaret Thatcher 565
    Michael F. Hopkins

Part III The Legacy of Ronald Reagan 583

32. Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Movement 585
    Sandra Scanlon

33. Reagan and Globalization 608
    Thomas W. Zeiler

34. Reputation and Legacies: An American Symbol 626
    Chester J. Pach

Index 644