A Companion to Ronald Reagan (eBook)

Andrew L. Johns (Herausgeber)

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2015
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-60792-3 (ISBN)

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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

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.

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A COMPANION TO RONALD REAGAN Ronald Reagan s life (1911 2004) spanned some of the most important domestic and international events of the last century. Moreover, his administration (1981 1989) represents a pivotal point in American history, when the pattern of US domestic and foreign policy was fundamentally and permanently changed. As perhaps the key political figure in the last quarter of the twentieth century, Reagan s legacy continues to exercise significant influence on contemporary politics. Providing a systematic and definitive examination of Reagan s life and legacy in its entirety, A Companion to Ronald Reagan evaluates the events, policies, politics, and people of his administration, and assesses the scope and influence of his various careers sportscaster, actor, political activist, governor, and political icon within the context of the times. Finally, it grapples with Reagan s evolving historical and popular legacy in the twenty-first century. Providing the most comprehensive coverage of Ronald Reagan, his administration, and his legacy currently available, this unique companion is the definitive resource for undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars.

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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, 1981-1989 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, 1981-1989 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, 1981-1985 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 Iran-Contra 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

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"This strapping volume is another fine addition to the Wiley Blackwell Companions to American Historyseries and, at 682 pages, one of the longer ones." (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2015)

"This volume offers the fullest and fairest assessment of Ronald Reagan available today. The chapters cover Reagan's life, his policies, and the key issues of his time with clear focus and rigorous analysis. This volume defines the field, and it charts many future directions for research and debate." (Expofairs, 7 May 2015)



"To understand Ronald Reagan is to understand our recent past,
and A Companion to Ronald Reagan is simply the best source
available for understanding this complex, enigmatic, and profoundly
influential shaper of American politics and of America's
trajectory. Comprehensive, illuminating, and produced by some
of the finest scholars writing today on American history, it is
essential reading for anyone interested in this American political
giant."-Jeffrey A. Engel, Director, Center for
Presidential History, Southern Methodist University

"This volume offers the fullest and fairest assessment of
Ronald Reagan available today. The chapters cover Reagan's
life, his policies, and the key issues of his time with clear focus
and rigorous analysis. This volume defines the field, and it charts
many future directions for research and
debate."-Professor Jeremi Suri, University of
Texas at Austin

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Notes on Contributors

Michael R. Adamson is an independent consulting historian based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has more than a decade of experience in the areas of business history, historic preservation, litigation support, environmental impact assessment, and contract work for government agencies. He is the author of A Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies (2013), and his essays have appeared in a wide variety of venues, including Diplomatic History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and Business History Review. He has taught history at a number of Bay Area institutions, most recently at California State University, Sacramento.

Jennifer Brier is director of the Program in Gender and Women's Studies and Associate Professor in GWS and History Departments at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Infectious Ideas: US Political Response to the AIDS Crisis (2009) and has curated several historical exhibitions, including Out in Chicago, the Chicago History Museum's prize-winning exhibition on LGBT his­tory in Chicago, and Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture, a traveling exhibition produced by the National Library of Medicine. She is currently at work on a major public history project called History Moves, a community-curated mobile gallery that will provide a space for Chicago community organizers and activists to share their histories with a wide audience.

W. Elliot Brownlee is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has written numerous books and articles on US economic history and the history of taxation, with particularly close attention to periods of national crisis. His latest book is The Political Economy of Transnational Tax Reform: The Shoup Mission to Japan in Historical Context, co-edited with Eisaku Ide and Yasunori Fukagai (2013). The second edition of his Federal Taxation in America: A History appeared in 2004. He is currently at work on the history of fiscal consolidation in the United States and the comparative history of taxation and financial crises in the United States and Japan. He has recently held visiting professorships at the University of Tokyo and at Yokohama National University.

Clea Bunch is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. A specialist in the history of the modern Middle East and US–Middle Eastern relations, she is the author of The United States and Jordan: Middle East Diplomacy during the Cold War (2014).

Andrew E. Busch is Crown Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, where he teaches courses on American politics and government. He is the author and co-author of fourteen books, including Horses in Midstream: US Midterm Elections and Their Consequences, 1894–1998 (1999); Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom (2001); The Front-Loading Problem in Presidential Nominations (with William G. Mayer, 2003); The Constitution on the Campaign Trail: The Surprising Political Career of America's Founding Document (2007); and After Hope and Change: The 2012 Elections and American Politics (with James W. Ceaser and John W. Pitney, Jr., 2013). He is currently director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at CMC.

Michael F. Cairo is Professor of Political Science and director of the International Affairs program at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. He received his PhD in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Gulf: The Bush Presidencies and the Middle East (2012: the inaugural book in the series on Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace) and has contributed chapters to Diplomats at War: The American Experience (2013) and Executing the Constitution (2006), in addition to other articles and book reviews. His next project examines American diplomacy in the Middle East peace process, from the Lyndon Johnson to the Barack Obama administrations.

Elizabeth C. Charles works in the Office of the Historian at the US Department of State as a researcher and compiler for the Foreign Relations of the United States series. She is currently working on volumes that cover the topics of Soviet Union and arms control during the Reagan administration. She finished her PhD in modern Russian and Cold War history at the George Washington University in 2010.

Lori Clune is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Fresno. She earned her PhD from the University of California, Davis in 2010, and has published articles, essays, and reviews on various topics in Cold War history. She is currently working on a manuscript based on her dissertation that gives a transnational account of the trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Jason M. Colby is Associate Professor of History at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and US Expansion in Central America (2011), as well as of numerous articles on the history of US–Latin American relations. He is currently completing a book on the business of killer whale capture and the transformation of the Pacific Northwest between 1960 and 1990.

Lilia Fernandez is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. She is also affiliated with the Latino Studies Program, the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Comparative Studies Department. She specializes in twentieth-century history of Latinos/as in Chicago and has published articles, book chapters, and essays on Mexican American community formation, Mexican and Puerto Rican labor migration, and nativism and xenophobia throughout the world. Her book Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago (2012) traces the sociospatial relations of both populations in the city in the mid-twentieth century.

William Glenn Gray is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University. He is the author of Germany's Cold War: The Global Campaign to Isolate East Germany, 1949–1969 (2003); the author of articles in Diplomatic History and the International History Review; and the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the Cold War (2008). He is currently working on a book that traces West Germany's rise to global influence in the 1960s and 1970s.

Heather S. Gregg is Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School's Department of Defense Analysis, where she works primarily with Special Operations Forces. She earned her PhD in political science in 2003 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; her dissertation focused on historic and contemporary causes of religiously motivated violence. Her publications include The Path to Salvation: Religious Violence from the Crusades to Jihad (2014) and articles in Terrorism and Political Violence and Foreign Policy Analysis.

Jacob Darwin Hamblin is Associate Professor of History at Oregon State University. His research focuses on the international dimensions of science, technology, and the environment. His books include Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (2013); Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (2008); and Oceanographers and the Cold War (2005).

Michael F. Hopkins is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool and director of the MA in Twentieth Century History Program. He is the author of Oliver Franks and the Truman Administration (2003); The Cold War (2011); and Dean Acheson and the Obligations of Power (forthcoming). He is also the co-editor of Cold War Britain (2003) and The Washington Embassy: British Ambassadors to the United States, 1939–1977 (2009).

Andrew E. Hunt is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans against the War (1999), and David Derllinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary (2006), as well as the co-author of Social History of the United States: The 1980s (2008).

Andrew L. Johns is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University and at 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 (2006) and Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945 (2014). In addition, he is editor of the journal Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review and general editor of the Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace book series.

Robert David Johnson is Professor of History at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author and editor of numerous books, articles, and essays on US foreign relations and political history, including The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations (1995), Congress and the Cold War (2005), and All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 Presidential Election (2009).

Jeremy Kuzmarov is J. P. Walker Assis­tant Professor of History at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 20th Century America • Amerika im 20. Jahrhundert • Geschichte • History • Reagan administration, American politics, US politics, Cold War, globalization, Supreme Court, 20th century America, US since 1945, the 1980s, Reagan?s life, Reagan?s gubernatorial service, nuclear weapons, Iran-contra affair, Reagan doctrine, Reagan and terrorism, Reagan and Africa, Reagan and Europe, Reagan and Asia, Reagan and Central America, Reagan and the Middle East, Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, George H. W. Bush, Oliver North, James Baker III, George Shultz, Nancy Reagan, Reagan and the Soviet Unio • Reagan, Ronald
• ISBN-10: 1-118-60792-9 / 1118607929
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-60792-3 / 9781118607923