Books About the Reagan Administration

[erpowers]

Does anyone know about any good book about the Ronald Reagan Administration? I am interested in learning how Reagan increased the size of government. I know that the size of government increased during the Reagan Administration, but I do not know what was done to cause the increase. I want to know what, if any, agencies were created during the Reagan Administration.

[HughBeaumont]

1. Tear Down This Myth by Will Bunch.

http://www.amazon.com/Tear-Down-This-Myth-Distorted/dp/141659762X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272480407&sr=8-1

Love the tags the TeaDouchers give it: "garbage", "commie", "hogwash", etc.

[immoderate]

2. Here's a good one...

Haynes Johnson. Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years. W.W. Norton & Co: New York, New ed, 2003

Review here: http://www.americansc.org.uk/Reviews/Sleepwalking.htm



--imm

[deutsey]

3. That's what I was going to suggest

Also "A Very Thin Line" about the Iran/Contra scandals.

http://www.amazon.com/Very-Thin-Line-Iran-Contra-Affairs/dp/0809096137

[clu]

4. david stockman was the director of the OMB in the first term

the book is "The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed". i did a book report on it for history class. he actually says that in the role of OMB, they used the budget from the carter administration as a baseline to determine how much they wanted to spend. something like an error in assuming inflation-adjusted dollars is what allowed so much to be allocated to the pentagon, but once they had their projected budget, they wouldn't let go.

[erpowers]

6. Read It

I read that book. I was a very good book. I was surprised at how critical of he was of the Reagan Administration. I did not expect a Republican let alone one that had been a part of the Administration to be that critical of Reagan. I am not a fan of Reagan, but that was just about the first time I had read any Republican be critical of the Reagan Administration.

However, although I care about budgetary politics and policy, I was looking for something that discussed more whether or not he created any new agencies. If he did create any new agenices how many he created.

[Berry Cool]

5. Also read The Man Who Sold the World. n/t