"A worldwide collection of histories of US foreign relations during the two presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan"--

"In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in the 1980s achieved impressive success in their efforts to transform American government, politics, and society, ushering in the political and social system Americans inhabit today. Rossinow links current...

Dispels the long-held belief that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had a special bond and a harmonious diplomatic relationship by revealing the high-stakes clashes the pair had over the Falkland Islands, Grenada, and nuclear weapons.

"Ronald Reagan's Cold War strategy was well established in his first year in office and did not change throughout his presidency. It was to make absolutely sure in the minds of the Soviets that they too would be destroyed in a nuclear war--even as Reagan sought an alternative through strategic defense to make nuclear missiles obsolete and thus eliminate the possibility of an all-out nuclear war. This book offers new perspectives on Ronald Reagan's...