Reagan Vindicated
Debunking 15 left-wing lies that tarnished America’s iconic leader
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The case against Ronald Reagan usually arrives in one-liners: he tripled the debt, he ignored AIDS, he courted the segregationist South. The dates, votes and figures that answer them rarely travel with them.
This book supplies them. Each chapter states an accusation the way Reagan’s critics make it, then makes the case against it from the record and lists its sources, from the Tower Commission Report to the Census Bureau’s income tables.
The civil rights charge meets November 2, 1983, when Reagan signed the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday into law with Coretta Scott King beside him, after a 338-to-90 House vote. The imperial-presidency charge meets 381 executive orders in eight years, against Jimmy Carter’s 320 in a single term. On the debt, the book grants that it tripled, then shows GDP nearly doubled over the same years, lifting debt from about a third of the economy to just over half.
Where the critics have a point, the book concedes it: the 241 Americans killed in Beirut, the hundred-to-one crack sentencing rule, the arms-for-hostages trade Reagan himself admitted. You come away able to defend his record on the facts, conceding what they concede and citing them for the rest.
Questions about this book
Does the book cover Reagan’s foreign policy, labor and environmental record?
Yes. It also covers the 1981 PATCO strike, the 1983 Grenada and Lebanon operations, the Montreal Protocol on the ozone layer, and the Strategic Defense Initiative alongside the 1987 INF Treaty.
Does the book examine Reagan’s response to AIDS in detail?
Yes. It follows the timeline from the first CDC reports in 1981 to Reagan’s September 1985 press conference, Surgeon General Koop’s 1986 report, the 1987 approval of AZT, and the 1988 brochure sent to 107 million households.
Where do the book’s facts and figures come from?
Each chapter ends with a source list. It draws on the Public Papers of the Presidents, Congressional Record roll calls, FBI crime reports, Bureau of Labor Statistics data, Reagan’s memoir, and critics such as Randy Shilts and Malcolm Byrne.
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