Historical Dictionary of the Reagan‐Bush Era

In the early 1960s I remember the satirist Tom Lehrer expressing incredulity at the very idea of Ronald Reagan achieving high political office (he was a candidate for the Governorship of California). Who would then have thought that he would one day become President, let alone that he would give his name to an era which would prove one of the most momentous in the history of the USA and the world? This volume follows the usual pattern of the series, with about 350 entries, some only a paragraph or two in length and some stretching to several pages. About...