The bibliography of Ronald Reagan includes numerous books and articles about Ronald Reagan. According to J. David Woodard, a political science professor, more than 11,000 books on Reagan have been published.
Biographies
Boot, Max. Reagan: His Life and Legend (2024) Brands, H.W. Reagan: The Life (2015) Hayward, Steven F. The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980–1989 (2010) Hayward, Steven F. The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964–1980 (2001) Benze, James G. Jr. Nancy Reagan: On the White House Stage (2005) Burgan, Michael. Ronald Reagan (DK Biography, 2010) Cannon, Lou. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (1991) Cannon, Lou. Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power (2003) D’Souza, Dinesh. Ronald Reagan: How An Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader (1997) Evans, Thomas W. The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years (2006) Kleinknecht, William. The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America (2009) Mann, Robert. Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise of a Conservative Icon (2019) Morris, Edmund. Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (1999) Pemberton, William E. Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan (1998) Reeves, Richard. President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination (2005) Roberts, Jason. "Nancy Reagan." in Katherine A.S. Sibley, ed., A Companion to First Ladies (2016) Spitz, Bob. Reagan: An American Journey (2018) Sullivan, George. Mr. President (1997)
Politics and domestic issues
Aldrich, John H., and David W. Rohde. Change and Continuity in the 1984 Elections (1987) Brandt, Karl Gerard. Ronald Reagan and the House Democrats: Gridlock, Partisanship, and the Fiscal Crisis (University of Missouri Press, 2009). Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation, 1981–1984 (1985); 1162 pp. highly detailed coverage of all major issues based on CQ Weekly Report; Congress and the Nation, 1985–1989 (1990); 1194 pp. highly detailed coverage of all major issues Crafton, William. "The Incremental Revolution: Ronald Reagan and Welfare Reform in the 1970s," Journal of Policy History (2014) 26#1 pp. 27–47. online Cunningham, Sean P. Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right (2010). Berman, Larry, ed. Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency (1990), essays by academics Brinkley, Alan and Davis Dyer. The American Presidency (2004) Brownlee, W. Elliot and Hugh Davis Graham, eds. The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and Its Legacies (2003) Bunch, Will. Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future (2009). Review and excerpt. Busch, Andrew E. Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right, (2005) online review by Michael Barone Campagna; Anthony S. The Economy in the Reagan Years: The Economic Consequences of the Reagan Administrations Greenwood Press. 1994 Cannon, Lou. Ronald Reagan: The Presidential Portfolio. Public Affairs. ISBN Collins, Chuck, Felice Yeskel, and United for a Fair Economy. "Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity." (2000). on tax policies. Cook, Daniel M. and Polsky, Andrew J. "Political Time Reconsidered: Unbuilding and Rebuilding the State under the Reagan Administration." American Politics Research(4): 577–605. ISSN 1532-673X Fulltext in SwetsWise. Argues Reagan slowed enforcement of pollution laws and transformed the national education agenda. Dallek, Matthew. The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics. (2004). Study of 1966 election as governor. Ehrman, John. The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan. (2005) Ferguson Thomas, and Joel Rogers, Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics 1986. Germond, Jack W. and Jules Witcover. Blue Smoke & Mirrors: How Reagan Won & Why Carter Lost the Election of 1980. 1981. Detailed journalism. Greenstein Fred I. ed. The Reagan Presidency: An Early Assessment 1983, essays by political scientists Hayward, Steven F. The Age of Reagan, 1964–1980: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order (2001) vol 1; The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980–1989 (2009) vol 2; the most comprehensive coverage of the era from a Reaganite perspective Johnson, Haynes. Sleepwalking through History: America in the Reagan Years (1991); hostile Jones, Charles O. ed. The Reagan Legacy: Promise and Performance (1988) essays by political scientists Kirst Michael W. "Coalition Building For School Finance Reform: The Case of California" Journal of Education Finance 4#1 (1978), pp. 29–45 online Levy, Peter B. Encyclopedia of the Reagan-Bush Years (1996), short articles Patterson, James T. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore. (2005), standard scholarly synthesis. Perlstein, Rick. Reaganland: America's Right Turn, 1976–1980. (2020). Rossinow, Doug. The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s (2015). Salamon Lester M., and Michael S. Lund. eds. The Reagan Presidency and the Governing of America 1985. articles by political scientists Schmertz, Eric J. et al. eds. Ronald Reagan's America 2 Volumes (1997) articles by scholars and officeholders Short, C. Brant. Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984 (Texas A&M UP, 2000) Stine, Jeffrey K. "Natural Resources and Environmental Policy." in The Reagan. Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and Its Legacies (2003) pp. 233–256. Weatherford, M. Stephen and Mcdonnell, Lorraine M. "Ronald Reagan as Legislative Advocate: Passing the Reagan Revolution's Budgets in 1981 and 1982." Congress & the Presidency (1): 1–29. Fulltext in Ebsco; Argues RR ignored the details but played a guiding role in setting major policies and adjudicating significant trade-offs, and in securing Congressional approval.
Foreign affairs
Aldous, Richard. Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship (2012), on relations with Britain Andrew, Christopher. For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush (1996) pp 457–502. Arnson, Cynthia J. Crossroads: Congress, the Reagan Administration, and Central America Pantheon, 1989 Avner, Yehuda, The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership (The Toby Press, 2010). Baier, Brett and Catherine Whitney. Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire (William Morrow, 2018). Busch, Andrew E.; "Ronald Reagan and the Defeat of the Soviet Empire" in Presidential Studies Quarterly. Vol: 27. Issue: 3. 1997. pp. 451+ Dobson, Alan P. "The Reagan Administration, Economic Warfare, and Starting to Close down the Cold War." Diplomatic History (3): 531–56. online. Argues Reagan's public rhetoric against the USSR was harsh and uncompromising, giving rise to the idea that his administration sought to employ a US defense buildup and NATO economic sanctions to bring about the collapse of the USSR. Yet many statements by Reagan and Shultz suggest they desired negotiation with the Soviets from a position of American strength, not the eventual demise of the USSR. Dujmovic, Nicholas. "Reagan, Intelligence, Casey, and the CIA: A Reappraisal," International Journal of Intelligence & Counterintelligence (2013) 26#1 pp. 1–30. Draper, Theodore. A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affair (1991) Fitzgerald, Frances. Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War. political history of S.D.I. (2000). ISBN. Ford, Christopher A. and Rosenberg, David A. "The Naval Intelligence Underpinnings of Reagan's Maritime Strategy." Journal of Strategic Studies (2): 379–409. Fulltext in Ingenta and Ebsco; Reagan's maritime strategy sought to apply US naval might against Soviet vulnerabilities on its maritime flanks. It was supported by a major buildup of US naval forces and aggressive exercising in seas proximate to the USSR; it explicitly targeted Moscow's strategic missile submarines with the aim of pressuring the Kremlin during crises or the early phases of global war. The maritime strategy represents one of the rare instances in history when intelligence helped lead a nation to completely revise its concept of military operations. Haftendorn, Helga and Jakob Schissler, eds. The Reagan Administration: A Reconstruction of American Strength? Berlin: Walter de Guyer, 1988. by European scholars two scholarly book reviews online
Jeffrey W. Knopf, "Did Reagan Win the Cold War?" Strategic Insights, Volume III, Issue 8 (August 2004) Kyvig, David. ed. Reagan and the World (1990), scholarly essays on foreign policy Mann, James. The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War (Penguin, 2010) Pach, Chester. "The Reagan Doctrine: Principle, Pragmatism, and Policy." Presidential Studies Quarterly(1): 75–88. Fulltext in SwetsWise and Ingenta; Reagan declared in 1985 that the U.S. should not "break faith" with anti-Communist resistance groups. However, his policies varied as differences in local conditions and US security interests produced divergent policies toward "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Mozambique, Angola, and Cambodia. Ratnesar, Romesh. "Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War" (2009) Salla; Michael E. and Ralph Summy, eds. Why the Cold War Ended: A Range of Interpretations Greenwood Press. 1995. Schmertz, Eric J. et al. eds. Ronald Reagan and the World (1997) articles by scholars and officeholders. Shultz, George P. Turmoil and Triumph My Years As Secretary of State (1993), detailed autobiography Schweizer, Peter. Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism (2002) Velasco, Jesús. Neoconservatives in U.S. Foreign Policy under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush: Voices behind the Throne (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2010) Wallison, Peter J. Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency. Westview Press, 2003. 282 pp. Wills, David C. The First War on Terrorism: Counter-Terrorism Policy during the Reagan Administration. 2004.
Wilson, James Graham. "How Grand Was Reagan's Strategy, 1976–1984?" in Diplomacy and Statecraft. Vol: 18. Issue: 4. 2007. 773–803. Woodward, Bob. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 (1987)
Governor of California
Anderson, Totton J. and Eugene C. Lee. "The 1966 Election in California," Western Political Quarterly (1967) 20#2 pp. 535–54 in JSTOR Cannon, Lou. Governor Reagan: His rise to power (PublicAffairs, 2005) De Groot, Gerard J. "‘A Goddamned Electable Person’: The 1966 California Gubernatorial Campaign of Ronald Reagan." History 82#267 (1997) pp: 429–48 Hamilton, Gary G., and Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Governor Reagan, Governor Brown: A sociology of executive power (Columbia University Press, 1984) Holden, Kenneth. Making of the Great Communicator: Ronald Reagan's Transformation From Actor To Governor (2013) Putnam, Jackson K. "Governor Reagan: A Reappraisal." California History (2006): 24–45. in JSTOR Reeves, Michelle. "Obey the Rules or Get Out": Ronald Reagan's 1966 Gubernatorial Campaign and the 'Trouble in Berkeley'." Southern California Quarterly (2010): 275–305. in JSTOR Schuparra, Kurt. Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945–1966 (ME Sharpe, 1998)
Rhetoric, media and values
Aden, R. C. "Entrapment and Escape: Inventional Metaphors in Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric." Southern Communication Journal 54 (1989): 384–401 Bates, Toby Glenn. The Reagan Rhetoric: History and Memory in 1980s America (2011) Cunningham, Sean P. Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right (2010) Dallek, Robert. Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism. (1999) Denton Jr., Robert E. Primetime Presidency of Ronald Reagan: The Era of the Television Presidency (1988)