Selling Reagan's foreign policy : going public vs. executive bargaining /

Kane presents a critical study of the Reagan administration's public communication efforts to sell the president's controversial foreign policy initiatives to the public and Congress. Kane challenges existing scholarship on Reagan's communication and leadership to demonstrate the exec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kane, N. Stephen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Nicaragua : peril at the gates?
  • Yellow rain : to bee or not to bee?
  • Arms and controversy : selling advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia
  • The MX missile : phoenix rising
  • The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) : the impossible dream?
  • Grenada : the fury that wasn't so urgent
  • Diversion, denial, and scandal : responding to Iran-Contra
  • Conclusions : analysis and discussion.