Way Out There in the Blue

An examination of the presidency of Ronald Reagan explores his "Star Wars" program, showing how Reagan used his acting skills and public image to drive a program derided by scientists.

James Hershberg Chicago Tribune A devastating picture of the disarray, drift and acrimonious division that frequently characterized the administration...A significant contribution to the simmering argument...over the meaning and conduct of his presidency.

Autorentext
Frances FitzGerald is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and a prize from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America; Fire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam; America Revised: History School Books in the Twentieth Century; Cities on a Hill: A Journey through Contemporary American Cultures; Way Out in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War; and Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth. She has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Esquire.

Klappentext
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 Blue is the most penetrating study of Reagan's presidency to date.

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Contents

AUTHOR'S NOTE

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

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