Way out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances Fitzgerald

Way out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances Fitzgerald

Using the Star Wars missile defense program as a magnifying glass on his presidency, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Frances FitzGerald gives us a wholly original portrait of Ronald Reagan. Drawing on extensive research, FitzGerald shows how Reagan managed to get billions in funding for a program that was technologically impossible by exploiting the fears of the American public. The Reagan who emerges from FitzGerald's book was a gifted politician with a deep understanding of the national psyche, and an executive almost totally disengaged from the policies of his administration. Both appalling and funny, Way Out There in the Blue is the most penetrating study of Reagan's presidency to date.

For her magnificent Fire in the Lake, Frances FitzGerald won the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize for History, the National Book Award, and the National Institute for Arts and Letters Award, among others. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and the author of America Revised and Far Out There in the Blue.

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ISBN 13	9780743200233
ISBN 10	0743200233
Title	Way out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
Author	Frances Fitzgerald
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2001-03-12
Number of pages	596
Prizes	Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2000, Short-listed for Helen Bernstein Book Award 2001
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