Title: On Reagan :
Authors: Dugger, Ronnie.
Date: 1983
Publisher: McGraw-Hill,
Physical description: xvi, 617 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: E
Abstract: This book provides a complete record of everything significant Ronald Reagan has said and done as a public person.
Contents: Introduction -- A note to the reader -- Swerving from left to right -- The board of directors of the United States -- The war on Social Security -- "A wholesale giveaway to private interests" -- Riding down to the Marxist income tax -- Big money and big business in the White House -- Uranium, plutonium, and bechtel -- Unleashing free enterprise -- Trusting business with health and safety -- The turn against antitrust -- "All these beautiful white people" -- Sneering at the women's movement -- The liberties of the people -- Prayer, sex, innocence, and guns -- Reagan's McCarthyism -- Punishing the poor -- Housing, education, and health; workers and farmers -- Parking stripes and moonscapes -- Reagan and the world -- Reagan and nuclear war -- Critics on Reaganism 1981-1983 -- Appendix: Reagan on Reaganism 1975-1979. I. The United States. Social Security ; Commerce and conservation ; The environment ; Taxes ; Campaign finance ; Business ; Prices and consumerism ; Nuclear power ; Regulation ; Civil rights ; Women's rights ; Crime and civil liberties ; Terrorism and police ; Communists in the U.S. ; McCarthyism ; Welfare ; Government ; Medical care ; Education ; Mass transit ; Farmers and subsidies ; Privatization ; Unemployment ; Public sector jobs ; Labor unions ; Christianity ; Volunteerism - II. Foreign policy. Vietnam ; The Soviet Union ; Eastern Europe ; Western Europe ; Central America ; South America ; The Middle East ; Africa ; China and Taiwan ; Korea ; Japan and the Pacific ; Foreign aid ; The United Nations - III. The nuclear arms race. SALT II and treaties in general ; The Russians are ahead ; The neutron bomb ; On equality and superiority -- Acknowledgments -- Notes and sources -- Bibliography -- Index.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Presidents--United States--Biography; Reagan, Ronald; United States--Politics and government--1981-.; United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.