Biographies

• 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, Jr. James G. Nancy Reagan: On the White House Stage (2005), University Press of Kansas
• Burgan, Michael. Ronald Reagan (DK Biography, 2010), heavily illustrated; for middle schools
• Cannon, Lou
  Lou Cannon
  Louis Cannon is an American journalist, non-fiction author, and biographer. He was state bureau chief for the San Jose Mercury News in the late 1960s, and later senior White House correspondent of the Washington Post during the Reagan administration...
  
  . President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime Public Affairs. (2nd ed 2000) 948 pp. full-length biography
• Cannon, Lou. Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power Public Affairs. detailed biography
• D’Souza, Dinesh
  Dinesh D'Souza
  Dinesh D'Souza is an author and public speaker and a former Robert and Karen Rishwain Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is currently the President of The King's College in New York City. D'Souza is a noted Christian apologist and conservative writer and speaker....
  
  . 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)
• Morris, Edmund. Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
  Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
  Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan a 1999 biography with fictional elements by Edmund Morris, a Kenyan-born writer now living in the United States, about Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States...
  
  (1999), includes fictional material
• Pemberton, William E. Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan (1998) short biography
• Reeves, Richard
  Richard Reeves
  Richard Reeves is a writer, syndicated columnist and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.-Career:...
  
  . President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination (2005) detailed analysis by a journalist
• Sullivan, George. Mr. President (1997). for middle schools

Politics and Domestic issues

• Aldrich, John H., and David W. Rohde. Change and Continuity in the 1984 Elections. (1987)
• 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
• Levy, Peter B. Encyclopedia of the Reagan-Bush Years (1996), short articles online edition
• Patterson, James T. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore. (2005), standard scholarly synthesis.
• Salamon Lester M., and Michael S. Lund. eds. The Reagan Presidency and the Governing of America 1985. articles by political scientists
• Schmertz, Eric J.
  Eric Schmertz
  Eric Joseph Schmertz was an American lawyer who specialized in labor negotiation, helping reach agreements between workers and management in many strikes and other threatened union actions in New York City, including actions by the city's taxi drivers and other municipal workers, as well as...
  
    et al. eds. Ronald Reagan's America 2 Volumes (1997) articles by scholars and officeholders vol 1 online vol 2 online
• 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

• Arnson, Cynthia J. Crossroads: Congress, the Reagan Administration, and Central America Pantheon, 1989.
• Avner, Yehuda
  Yehuda Avner
  Yehuda Avner is an Israeli former prime ministerial advisor and diplomat. He served as personal secretary and speechwriter to Israeli Prime Ministers Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Golda Meir and Levi Eshkol, and as Israeli Ambassador to Australia and the United Kingdom.-Early...
  
  , The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership (The Toby Press, 2010). ISBN 9781592642786
• Luca Bellocchio, “La politica estera di Reagan. Alle radici del realismo neo-conservatore”, in Marco Sioli (a cura di), La parabola di Ronald Reagan. Tra propaganda e comunicazione politica, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2008, pp. 115-131.
• 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): 531-556. Fulltext in SwetsWise, Ingenta and Ebsco. 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.
• 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
• 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 online edition
• Shultz, George P. Turmoil and Triumph My Years As Secretary of State 1993)
• 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.