"From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling biographer H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the first full life of Ronald Reagan since his death. Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential...

"In Lessons My Father Taught Me, Michael Reagan looks back over his years with his father and reflects on what he has learned from the greatest man he has ever known--and one of the greatest men the world has known,"--Amazon.com.

"His name in American politics is more cited than any other president. Both the Republican and Democratic parties are radically different today, mainly as a result of Ronald Reagan and the force of his ideas. No twentieth century president shaped the American political landscape so profoundly. Craig Shirley's Last Act is the important final chapter in the life of Reagan that no one has thus far covered. It's the kind of book that widens our understanding...

On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan delivered a nationally televised speech in which he argued that the nation needed to update and increase its nuclear arsenal to ensure its safety against the Soviet Union. The centerpiece of his plan was the Strategic Defense Initiative, a theoretical system that would allow the U.S. military to shoot down an incoming Soviet missile. Critics dubbed the program "Star Wars" and argued that the costly plan would...

While on a visit to Berlin in 1987, President Ronald Reagan famously challenged Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall as a symbol of reform within the Soviet Union. The wall, built in 1961 to separate Communist East Berlin from West Berlin, was eventually dismantled in 1989, the same year that the Soviet Union collapsed.

The 1985 Geneva summit meeting between President Ronald Reagan and President Mikhail Gorbachev began a warming of relations between the U.S. and the USSR. The principal aim of the Geneva summit was to negotiate peaceful nuclear weapons control and research.

The Iranian hostage situation, during which revolutionaries in Tehran seized the U. S. embassy and held 66 Americans hostage, was one of the most important issues during the 1980 presidential campaign. Despite President Jimmy Carter's pledge to bring the Americans home safely, many of his opponents, including Republican challenger Ronald Reagan, argued that the continued crisis was indicative of a failure of Carter's leadership.

In speech, Reagan refers to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire.

A well-known actor before he entered politics, Ronald Reagan's film career had faded by the 1950s. In 1954 he was hired by General Electric to host its sponsored television program, the General Electric Theater. Reagan acted in half-hour television plays and advertised GE's new products, but most notably he used the show as a soapbox for his political views. His tenure as host of GE's program arguably increased his public audience and contributed...