The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink
William Inboden
Dutton, £31.99, 622 pages
On a visit years back to the Ronald Reagan Library in California, thanks to the entrée of a friend who worked there, I had access to some of the archives usually closed to visitors. He showed me the goals Ronald Reagan had listed on 20 January 1981, his inauguration day. Written by hand on yellow legal paper, I was surprised that there were only half a dozen. Among them? The end of the communist empire and the Cold War, and a dramatic reduction in nuclear weapons.
