Ronald Reagan was elected president at a time when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were at their most precarious since the early ’60s. Newspaper headlines were dominated by reports of new missile deployments and covert actions in Third World countries, and Reagan came into office as a tough-talking Cold Warrior, determined to set aside Henry Kissinger’s theory of détente and take an aggressive posture in the fight against communism. But according to James Mann’s insightful, well-researched book The Rebellion Of Ronald Reagan, the president softened the longer he was in office. By the ...
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