The Reagan Presidency

Hour one of The Reagan Presidency features a detailed discussion of domestic policy issues: the impact of the administration’s tax decreases and tax increases, supply side economic initiatives (a.k.a. Reaganomics), bipartisan Social Security reform, the AIDS crisis, and more.

The second hour of The Reagan Presidency covers 1980-1984 and features in-depth discussion on foreign policy, including new strategies in the Cold War, superpower proxy wars in Central America and Afghanistan, and new insights into Reagan administration policies in the Middle East. Significant attention is given to President Reagan’s 1982 speech to the British Parliament and his reversal of America’s policy of détente.

The concluding episode of The Reagan Presidency begins in 1985 with Mikhail Gorbachev’s rise to General Secretary of the Soviet Union and chronicles the series of Soviet-American summits orchestrated by Reagan and Gorbachev, which led to a major breakthrough in the long-running Cold War.