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The Ronald Reagan Resource

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, Journal of Popular Film and Television (Spring 2000) The Midwest Farm Crisis of the 1980s Jason Manning, 2002 Unleashing 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