Way Out There In the Blue
Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
By Frances FitzGerald
(Simon & Schuster, Paperback, 9780743200233, 592pp.)
Publication Date: March 12, 2001
Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Hardcover (April 7, 2000)
Categories: Government - U.S. Government, Political History, United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000)
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Using the Star Wars missile defense program as a magnifying glass on his presidency, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Frances FitzGerald gives us a wholly original portrait of Ronald Reagan. Drawing on extensive research, FitzGerald shows how Reagan managed to get billions in funding for a program that was technologically impossible by exploiting the fears of the American public. The Reagan who emerges from FitzGerald's book was a gifted politician with a deep understanding of the national psyche, and an executive almost totally disengaged from the policies of his administration. Both appalling and funny, Way Out There in the Blue is the most penetrating study of Reagan's presidency to date.
Frances Fitzgerald is the acclaimed author of America Revised and Cities on a Hill. Her study of the Vietnam War, Fire in the Lake, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She lives in New York City.
Alan BrinkleyThe New York Times Book ReviewClearly, eloquently and engagingly [told]...One of the best inner histories of the Reagan administration yet to appear.
David M. ShribmanThe Boston GlobeOne of the most imaginative chronicles of Ronald Reagan's presidency.
James HershbergChicago Tribune A devastating picture of the disarray, drift and acrimonious division that frequently characterized the administration...A significant contribution to the simmering argument...over the meaning and conduct of his presidency.
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