Taiwan, 46
Talbott, Strobe, 301
Tarasenko, Sergei, 274
tax cuts, 80–81
Taylor, Robert, 16, 28
Teller, Edward, 176, 301
Thatcher, Margaret, 44, 122, 152, 185, 193, 205–6, 221, 246, 307
Thomas, Helen, 182–83
Thomas, J. Parnell, 16, 17
Thorn, Gaston, 185
Tikhonov, Nikolai, 217
Trofimenko, Genrikh, 46, 301
Trudeau, Pierre, 110, 185
Truman, Harry S., 67, 159
Trumbo, Dalton, 15
Tunney, John V., 206–9
Tyminski, Stanislaw, 287 Uhler, Lew, 29 ul-Haq, Zia, 276
Vasilyev, Gennady, 286
Velikhov, Yevgeny, 183
Vetrov, Vladimir I., 124, 156
Vietnam War, Kennedy-Reagan debate on, 33–35
Voice of America, 172
Volcker, Paul, 80
Volovets, S., 143
Weigel, George, 139
Weinberger, Caspar, 42–43, 121, 192,
Walesa, Lech, 84, 90, 91, 97, 149, 187, 279, 287, 289, 290–91, 308
Wallace, Chris, 183
Wallace, MIke, 201
Walsh, Lawrence, 270
Walters, Vernon, 136, 137
Waring, Fred, 23
Warner, Jack, 19
Watson, Russell, 275
Wayne, John, 11, 67, 68
Weaver, J. V. O., 57
194–95, 210, 242, 256, 259, 309 on arms race, 238
possible use of U.S. force to invade
Poland and, 94–95
Weiner, Tom, 210
Weiss, Gus, 123, 124–25, 154–55 Wheeler, Jack, 259
WHO radio station (Des Moines, Iowa), 11
Williamsburg summit (1983), 184–86 Wilson, Charlie, 274
Winthrop, John, 59
Wood, Natalie, 22 Wyman, Jane, 21
Yakovlev, Alexander, 297
Yalta Conference, 42–43, 87, 106 Yeltsin, Boris, 298, 299
Yergin, Daniel, 287
Yuzhin, Boris, 220
Zaitsev, Mikhail, 232
Zaslavsky, Ilya, 222
Zawitkowski, Chris, 286–87
Zhukov, Yuri, 43, 129
Zorin, Valentin, 50, 101, 183, 198, 212
About the Author
PAUL KENGOR, PhD , is the author of the New York Times Extended List bestseller God and Ronald Reagan and God and George W. Bush. A professor of political science and director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, he lives with his wife and four children in Grove City, Pennsylvania.
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Kengor, Paul, 1966–
The crusader : Ronald Reagan and the fall of communism / Paul Kengor.—
1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 13: 978-0-06-113690-0 hardcover
ISBN 10: 0-06-113690-5 (hardcover)
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