Way Out There In the Blue Reagan, Star Wars

Using the Star Wars missile defense program as a magnifying glass on his presidency, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Frances FitzGerald gives us a wholly original portrait of Ronald Reagan. Drawing on extensive research, FitzGerald shows how Reagan managed to get billions in funding for a program that was technologically impossible by exploiting the fears of the American public. The Reagan who emerges from FitzGerald's book was a gifted politician with a deep understanding of the national psyche, and an executive almost totally disengaged from the policies of his administration. Both appalling and funny,Way Out There in the Blueis the most penetrating study of Reagan's presidency to date.

Frances Fitzgerald is the acclaimed author of America Revised and Cities on a Hill. Her study of the Vietnam War, Fire in the Lake, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She lives in New York City.

Contents

AUTHOR'S NO

ONE The American Everyman

TWO The Making of an Orator

THREE Doubling the Volume

FOUR Space Defense Enthusiasts

FIVE To the Star Wars Speech

SIX Selling the Strategic Defense Initiative

SEVEN Hard-Liners vs. Pragmatists

EIGHT What Happened at Reykjavik?

NINE Falling Stars

TEN Reagan and Gorbachev

ELEVEN The End of the Cold War

AFTERWORD National Missile Defenses, 1989-99

GLOSSARY

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INDEX

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Way Out There In the Blue Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War

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