A Companion to Ronald Reagan

Andrew L. Johns 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2015년 02월 10일 출간

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A Companion to Ronald Reagan evaluates in unprecedenteddetail the events, policies, politics, and people of Reagan-sadministration. It assesses the scope and influence of his variouscareers within the context of the times, providing wide-rangingcoverage of his administration, and his legacy.Assesses Reagan and his impact on the development of the UnitedStatesbased on new documentary evidence and engagementwith the most recent secondary literatureOffers a mix of historiographic chapters devoted to foreign anddomestic policy, with topics integrated thematically andchronologicallyIncludes a section on key figures associated politically andpersonally with Reagan

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Notes on Contributors viii“To Grasp and Hold a Vision”: Ronald Reagan in Historical Perspective 1Andrew L. JohnsPart I Ronald Reagan&'s Pre-Presidential Life and Career 71. Reagan&'s Early Years: From Dixon to Hollywood 9John Sbardellati2. Political Ideology and Activism to 1966 22Lori Clune3. Reagan&'s Gubernatorial Years: From Conservative Spokesperson to National Politician 40Kurt Schuparra4. Reagan Runs: His Campaigns for the Presidency, 1976, 1980, and 1984 54Yanek MieczkowskiPart II The Reagan Administration, 1981&n-1989 71Domestic Policy: Politics and Economics 735. The Great Communicator: Rhetoric, Media, and Leadership Style 74Reed L. Welch6. Reagan and the Evolution of American Politics, 1981&n-1989 96Andrew E. Busch7. Ronald Reagan and the Supreme Court 117Andrew E. Hunt8. “Reaganomics”: The Fiscal and Monetary Policies 131W. Elliot Brownlee9. Reagan and the Economy: Business and Labor, Deregulation and Regulation 149Michael R. Adamson10. Reagan and the Military 167Jonathan Reed WinklerDomestic Policy: Social and Cultural Issues 18411. Ronald Reagan, Race, Civil Rights, and Immigration 185Lilia Fernandez12. Reagan, Religion, and the Culture Wars of the 1980s 204Matthew Avery Sutton13. Reagan and AIDS 221Jennifer Brier14. The Crackdown in America: The Reagan Revolution and the War on Drugs 238Jeremy Kuzmarov15. Ronald Reagan&'s Environmental Legacy 257Jacob Darwin HamblinForeign Policy: Issues 27516. Reagan, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War, 1981&n-1985 276Michael V. Paulauskas17. Shaking the Empire, or a Negotiate

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저자(글) Andrew L. Johns

Andrew L. Johns is Associate Professor of History atBrigham Young University and the David M. Kennedy Center forInternational Studies. He is the author of Vietnam&-sSecond Front:& Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, andthe War (2010), and the co-editor of The EisenhowerAdministration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the ColdWar (with Kathryn C. Statler, 2006) and&DiplomaticGames: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since1945 (with Heather L. Dichter, 2014). He is also the editor ofPassport: The Society for Historians of American ForeignRelations Review.