The Reagan Revolution Its Impact on Modern America

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 ... President Ronald Reagan's 1987 call to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall is considered a defining moment of his presidency. As laid out in my book, Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan, the shooting generated massive sympathy from the American public ... Indeed, by pledging U.S. power and legitimacy to defeating communism in Latin America, Reagan tapped into a deep tradition of asserting U.S. ... What Is Reaganomics? ... Reaganomics refers to the economic policies of Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. president, serving from 1981 to 1989. His economic policies ... Reagan's strategy in dealing with the Soviet Union and ending the Cold War involved reviving the U.S. economy, restoring American self- ... But history will remember Reagan as the first Cold War president to preside over eight years of unbroken peace, the first to reach an arms reduction ... In this, Reagan imbued an understanding of the limits of federal government intervention in generations of Americans. Reagan the Libertarian? In ... The Reagan era of the 1980s is often remembered for the President's pursuit of ending the Cold War and his legacy as the “Great Communicator ... Between 1984 and 2016, the Republicans were the party of Reagan, with his supporters claiming that he had reversed US economic decline, restored ...