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A 7 page review of FitzGerald’s 2000 book, which analyzes President Ronald Reagan’s controversial defense policy. No additional sources are used.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
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Tracy Gregory, October 2001 -- properly! In light of recent events, which has brought the world
to the brink of Armageddon, the 1980s, collectively dubbed by historians as "the Reagan era" seems like light years ago. American foreign policy was still being dictated by the
Cold War, and Ronald Reagan, one-time movie hero, was going to, as President of the United States, single-handedly save his beloved Stars and Stripes from the terrorizing "Red menace."
This is, at least, the opinion of Frances FitzGerald, as articulated in her 2000 book, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold
War. This massive endeavor of nearly 600 pages was quite an undertaking, especially considering the fact that FitzGerald elected to focus upon Reagans missile defense policy, a complex subject
to say the very least. However, FitzGeralds accessible journalistic style, which she honed in her earlier historical text, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam,
serves her well here. She is able to intelligently discuss complicated concepts, which are described in equally cumbersome multi-syllabic terminology, in ways that non-students of foreign policy can easily
understand. FitzGeralds attitude concerning her subject matter is established from the books title, which features a quote from Death of a Salesmans tragic protagonist, Willy Loman, a man who was
"way out in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine." According to FitzGerald, Ronald Reagan may have been President, but he still envisioned himself as an actor
playing to an audience. Reagan, himself, was a salesman, who wanted to "sell" the American people on the idea that they would be well-protected. He soothed them with
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