Reagan As President

Ronald Reagan brought a new ideology and a new spirit to the American presidency, qualities which made him the most controversial President since FDR and which surely will stamp his administration as “the Reagan era.” This collection of almost a hundred articles and essays, edited with commentary by Paul Boyer, explores Reagan’s domestic programs and foreign policies, focusing on the major public issues and controversies of the period. The President himself—his personality, his foibles, his presidential style—is also debated. The contributors range from Garry Wills and Donald Regan to James J. Kilpatrick and William F. Buckley, Jr. The result is an incomparable perspective on the Reagan presidency and a harvest of reading that is richly evocative of a lively and seminal era in American history.

Domestic programs and foreign policies explored in almost a hundred articles and essays.

Domestic programs and foreign policies--and the man himself--explored in almost a hundred articles and essays, with expert commentary. Paul Boyer has caught the essence of the pros and cons of Reagan and his presidency....A thoughtful and absorbing introduction. --Frank Freidel

Kliatt Magazine

An excellent selection

Paul Boyer is the Merle Curti Professor of history and a senior member of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin. His other books include By the Bomb’s Early Light, a widely praised study of American thought and culture at the dawn of the nuclear age.