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Ronald Reagan: A Tribute
The Reagan Presidency: An Overview
Speeches & Debates (17)
Carter-Reagan Debate, 28 October 1980
Reagan-Mondale Debate, 7 October 1984
Reagan-Mondale Debate, 28 October 1984
First Inaugural Address, 20 January 1981
Second Inaugural Address, 21 January 1985
Economic Recovery Program, 28 April 1981
Speech to the House of Commons, 8 June 1982
"Evil Empire" Speech, 8 March 1983
Strategic Defense Initiative, 23 March 1983
Speech at Pointe du Hoc, 6 June 1984
The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, 28 January 1986
Speech at the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, 12 June 1987
Farewell Address, 20 January 1989
1982 State of the Union
1983 State of the Union
1984 State of the Union
1985 State of the Union
Essays (11)
Ronald Reagan's Address at Moscow State University: A Rhetoric of Conciliation and Subversion
B.W. Howell
, The Southern Communication Journal
,
Winter 2003
Maus and Bitburg
Clifford J. Marks,
The Midwest Quarterly
, Summer 2002
The Invention of 'Quantifiably Safe Rhetoric': Richard Wirthlin and Ronald Reagan's Instrumental Use of Public Opinion Research in Presidential Discourse
W. C. Hall, Western
Journal of Communication
, Summer 2002
"The Great Communicator" and "The Great Talker" on the Radio: Projecting Presidential Personas
Sigelman & Whissell,
Presidential Studies Quarterly
, May 2002
"Until Next Week": The Saturday Radio Addresses of Ronald Reagan
Rowland & Jones,
Presidential Studies Quarterly
, March 2002
Reagan and the Gorbachev Revolution: Perceiving the End of Threat
B. Farnham,
Political Science Quarterly,
Summer 2001
No October Surprise
S. Emerson,
American Journalism Review
, March 1993
Spectator Desire and Narrative Closure: The Reagan 18-Minute Political Film
S. Mackey-Kallis,
Southern Communications Journal
, Summer 1991
Nancy Reagan: China Doll or Dragon Lady?
James G. Bense, Jr.,
Presidential Studies Quarterly
, 20, Fall 1990
Together in Electric Dreams: Films Revisiting 1980s Youth
Lesley Speed,
Jo
urnal of Popular Film and Television
(Spring 2000)
T
he Midwest Farm Crisis of the 1980s
Jason Manning, 2002
U
nleashing the Spirit: The Reagan Administration's Indian Policy
Jason Manning, 2001
Articles (10)
"How the East Was Won"
Dinesh D'Souza,
American History
, 2003
"
'Mr. Gorbachev, Open This Gate. Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall': The Inside Story of Reagan's Berlin Challenge
"
Peter Robinson,
American History
, 2003
"Reagan's Liberal Legacy"
Joshua Green,
Washington Monthly
, 2003
"The Light-Hearted President"
Peggy Noonan,
Saturday Evening Post
, 2002
"A State Dinner with President Reagan"
Cory Ser Vaas,
Saturday Evening Post
, 2002
"The Magic Reagan"
Kevin Baker,
Harper's Magazine
, 2002
"Where's the Rest of Him? Edmund Morris's Portrait of Ronald Reagan"
P. Hunnaford & R.D. Schulzinger,
Presidential Studies
, 2000
"Reagan Among the Professors: His Surprising Reputation"
Paul Kengor,
Policy Review
, 2000
"The Eighties: Not Misremembered"
Daniel Akst,
Los Angeles Times Magazine
, 1994
"Ronald Reagan (Time 100 Leaders & Revolutionaries of the 20th Century)"
Peggy Noonan,
Time
, 1998