Reagan, in His Own Hand : The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America

Hidden in the archives of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library for more than a decade, the writings contained inReagan, In His Own Handredefine the way we think about American history of the past quarter century and about the fortieth American president. By revealing an active mind wrestling with the problems of a sluggish economy, social pathologies, welfare reform, and the Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union, these never-before-seen documents, many reproduced in his own handwriting, prove Reagan to be both the visionary and intellectual powerhouse behind his administration's landmark policies.

Kiron K. Skinner is an assistant professor of history and political science at Carnegie Mellon University, and a Hoover Institution Research Fellow. She is also a Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and National Interest Annelise Anderson has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1983. In 1980 she was a senior policy adviser to the presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan, and from 1981 to 1983 she served as Associate Director for Economics and Government with the Office of Management and Budget Martin Anderson is the Keith and Jan Hurlbut Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. After serving as a Special Assistant to Richard Nixon, he was a senior policy adviser to the 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan, and served as chief domestic and economic policy adviser under President Reagan.