Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America

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Simon and Schuster, 9. okt. 2001 - 549 strani
During the eight years that Ronald Reagan served as president of the United States, a period of sustained economic prosperity and increased American power on the world stage, many of his advisers claimed authorship of the ideas that comprised 'the Reagan revolution.' The press, in turn, lent credence to the idea that President Reagan was merely a skilled communicator of those ideas, the consummate actor, not the director or producer. Few people realised that Reagan had left a paper trail of original writings that make clear he was the intellectual powerhouse behind his administration's landmark policies.
Hidden in archives for more than twenty years, Reagan's pre-presidential writings reveal an active mind wrestling with the problems of a sluggish economy, social pathologies, welfare, reform and the Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union.
Selected and annotated by three leading scholars, two of whom were among Reagan's principal domestic-policy advisers, these writings unlock the puzzle of the man so many historians have tried to comprehend, with so little success. A publishing landmark, REAGAN, IN HIS OWN HAND will redefine the way we think about American history of the past quarter-century, and about the fortieth American president.
 

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Introduction
xiii
REAGANS PHILOSOPHY
1
FOREIGN POLICY
21
COMMUNISM ASIA EUROPE AND THE SOVIET UNION
26
DEFENSE
64
FOREIGN POLICY DOUBLE STANDARDS HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND RELIGION
129
THE THIRD WORLD
179
DOMESTIC AND ECONOMIC POLICY
219
Return to the Primitive
428
Killed in Action
430
The Making of a Movie Star
433
Letter to the Editor of The Catholic Reporter
436
Are Liberals Really Liberal?
438
Speech
443
Letter to the Editor of the Pegasus
446
Speech on phone to YAF Convention in Houston Texas
449

FREEDOM AND GOVERNMENT
224
THE ECONOMY
254
ENERGY LAND AND THE ENVIRONMENT
318
EDUCATION
342
SOCIAL SECURITY AND HEALTH CARE
364
SOCIAL ISSUES
375
PERSONAL STORIES
409
OTHER WRITINGS NOV 6 1925NOV 5 1994
421
Halloween
423
Yale Comes Through
424
Life
426
Squall
427
Letter to Dr McDowell
453
On Portugal
456
Stump Speech Insert
457
Speech on Agriculture
466
State of the Union Speech
471
PEACE
480
Economic SpeechAddress to the Nation
487
INE Negotiations
493
Mr Minister
496
Reagans Goodbye
498
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Kiron K. Skinner is the Taube Professor for International Relations and Politics Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Politics and Strategy. Formerly a faculty member in the Department of History and the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Professor Skinner also oversaw the creation and development of Carnegie Melon’s newest academic unit while the director of the Institute of Politics and Strategy. George P. Shultz was an economist, diplomat, and businessman. Shultz held various positions in the U.S. Government, working under the Nixon, Reagan, and Eisenhower administrations. He studied at Princeton University and MIT, where he earned his Ph.D., and served in the United States Marine Corp during World War II. Shultz passed away in February of 2021 at the age of 100.

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