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

by Frances FitzGerald

• ISBN13: 9780684844169
• ISBN10: 0684844168
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-07
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Fire in the Lake" comes another major work of history, an original portrait of Ronald Reagan, the most puzzling president of the last half of the 20th century.

Author Biography

Frances FitzGerald is the author of Fire in the Lake, America Revised and Cities on a Hill. Her books have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Bancroft Prize for history. She has been a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and has written for many other publications, including The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books. She lives in New York.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	15	(19)
The American Everyman	19	(23)
The Making of an Orator	42	(30)
Doubling the Volume	72	(42)
Space Defense Enthusiasts	114	(33)
To the Star Wars Speech	147	(63)
Selling the Strategic Defense Initiative	210	(55)
Hard-Liners vs. Pragmatists	265	(49)
What Happened at Reykjavik?	314	(56)
Falling Stars	370	(42)
Reagan and Gorbachev	412	(48)
The End of the Cold War	460	(19)
National Missile Defenses, 1989--99	479	(21)
Glossary	500	(2)
Notes	502	(64)
Bibliography	566	(8)
Acknowledgments	574	(2)
Index	576