When Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States on January 20, 1981, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in conflicts that spanned all areas of the globe. To many, the Cold War seemed to be escalating out of control. Once regional conflicts, like civil wars in Angola or El Salvador, were now superpower conflicts as the United States and Soviet Union supplied the weapons, money and intelligence to ensure that these wars would continue.In the thirty years since Reagan came to power, the Cold War peacefully ended, and regional conflicts, once fueled by third-country support, have subsided. Many communist and anti-communist factions, in fact, have been able to put aside their differences to start working together. In hindsight, the 1980s have proven to be the decade in which the United States had the opportunity to start to remake the world. The Reagan Files: Inside the National Security Council, unearths the once top-secret transcripts of President Reagan's National Security Council and National Security Planning Group meetings. An invaluable resource on the Reagan years, The Reagan Files is a stunning account of what it was like to be inside the White House with President Reagan while he made some of the most important decisions of the 20th century.

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