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“... to live up to Lincoln’s martyred image, Kennedy himself and all his successors right down to Ronald Reagan vying with F.D.R. for a place in Presidential history – Reagan cultivating Rooseveltian images and taking on Rooseveltian airs even as he tries to dismantle the Rooseveltian social programme. The ...”

“... counties. In many parts of the US, every month is Confederate History Month.Since the election of Ronald Reagan, historians have struggled to explain why so many members of the white working class have abandoned their loyalty to the Democratic Party of Franklin D. Roosevelt and decided to vote for candidates whose policies, including tax cuts for the ...”

“... foreign policy, they can coalesce to dictate its content. The end of the 1970s was such a moment. Ronald Reagan, a man with few peers at personifying and manipulating the key symbols of American political life, seized on it. For fifteen years history had been conspiring to give him the chance. Fear of falling apart? Only a Pangloss could have lived ...”

“... air as if at a Nuremberg rally. The song – or at least its refrain – appealed particularly to Ronald Reagan, who used to quote it whenever he was on the stump in New Jersey. The difficulties inherent in attempts to separate out pity for those drafted and sent over ‘to go and kill the yellow man’ from political endorsement of the war are perhaps ...”

“... genius of the first order” must be aware that they are thereby also assisting the cause of Ronald Reagan.’ These two books, both by skilled and intelligent writers writing for broad, popular audiences, suggest that Eisenhower revisionism is no more likely than Cold War revisionism to find lasting public acceptance in its original form; that ...”

“... and nutritional panic-peddling, the HIV-Aids connection was down to pure careerism. Ronald Reagan had decided that ‘enough homosexuals picketing the White House was enough,’ so (Mullis says) Robert Gallo at the National Institutes of Health sensed a marketing opportunity: he ‘suavely pulled off his wraparound sunglasses and announced ...”

“... man of letters in politics. Yet I believe that there are grounds for arguing, till the advent of Ronald Reagan at least, that in the circumstances of our modern age, a background in journalism has been just about the most useless one any politician could have Foot was an outstanding journalist. He wrote an academic work of distinction about the role of ...”

“... list 33 years long’ – members include, to mention only the more exhausted, Henry Kissinger and Ronald Reagan – has an annual retreat with its own musical comedy show, artfully entitled The Low Jinks. It has an all-male cast and an all-male audience; the biggest crowd-pleaser, one witness reported, was Bubbles Boobenheim, a drag artist dressed as a ...”

“... involves complex ideas of moving through space over a number of frontiers. Part of the appeal of Ronald Reagan as President was that he played the mythical roles of both grandfather and cowboy, the patriarch from the West who could cross all the frontiers and keep the aliens out. The English myth of Home (which is what Warner deals with) cannot include ...”

“... forces, kicking the Vietnam syndrome, and winning the Cold War in the 1980s in the service of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. They had, in their own minds, raised American influence and prestige to heights not seen since the end of World War Two. Yet they had left office in 1993 with the nagging sense that their mission was unfinished. Although ...”

“... advertisement for liberalism. Headed ‘A Reaffirmation of Principle’, it openly rebuked Ronald Reagan for deriding ‘the dreaded L-word’ and treating ‘liberals’ and ‘liberalism’ as terms of opprobrium. Liberal principles, the text affirmed, are ‘timeless. Extremists of the right and of the left have long attacked liberalism as ...”

“... Budapest, one of the last Soviet memorials left in the city, and a life-sized statue of a grinning Ronald Reagan, erected in 2011. Even the Soviet war memorial sits on the foundations of an earlier monument that mourned the lands taken from Hungary under the terms of the Treaty of Trianon, imposed by the victors of the First World War. From early ...”

“... than on history. Was Sakharov aware, I wonder, that his most prominent supporters in the West, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, were busy weeding out whatever ‘socialist’ elements had been planted in their capitalist societies? It wasn’t clear either how the introduction of ‘capitalist’ elements would stem the tide of consumerism and ...”

“... end are still open to debate – except for those who are happy to give all the credit to Ronald Reagan or the pope. Concerning its origins, it is no longer enough either to blame totalitarianism or to demonise the Truman doctrine and George Kennan’s strategy of ‘containment’. More objectionable still are the parallels drawn by Donald ...”

“... gap between his ideals and ambitions on the one hand, and political realities on the other. With Ronald Reagan (and Carlos Menem in Argentina), a different figure entered the stage, a ‘Teflon’ president no longer expected to stick to his electoral programme, and therefore impervious to factual criticism (remember how ...”