Ronald Reagan and the 1980s : perceptions, policies, legacies / Ronald Reagan and the nineteen eighties edited by Cheryl Hudson and Gareth Davies. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - xiii, 268 p.: ill. forms.; 25 cm. - Studies of the Americas .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ronald Reagan : communicating the America within / Dan Rather -- Only an actor : memories of a Reagan biopic / Godfrey Hodgson -- "Just say no" : drug abuse policy in the Reagan administration / Peter G. Bourne -- Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War / Jack F. Matlock, Jr. -- Reagan, nuclear weapons, and the end of the Cold War / Simon Head -- Reaganomics and its legacy / Iwan Morgan -- African American protest during the Reagan years : forging new agendas, defending old victories / Stephen Tuck -- Reagan's religious right : the unlikely alliance between Southern evangelicals and a California conservative / Daniel K. Williams -- Ronald Reagan and the Republican party : responses to realignment / Robert Mason -- The Baptist and the messiah : Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher / Dominic Sandbrook -- Transforming the presidency : the administration of Ronald Reagan / Joel D. Aberbach -- The road to Mount Rushmore : the conservative commemoration crusade for Ronald Reagan / Niels Bjerre-Poulsen -- Toward a historiography of Reagan and the 1980s : why have we done such a lousy job? / Gil Troy -- Epilogue : Ronald Reagan and the historians / M.J. Heale.


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Reagan, Ronald.
Reagan, Ronald--Political and social views.
Reagan, Ronald--Influence.


Presidents--United States--Biography.
Nineteen eighties.


United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.

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