The Strategy of Campaigning explores the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, two of the most galvanizing and often controversial political figures of our time. Both men overcame defeat early in their political careers and rose to the highest elected offices in their respective countries.
The authors demonstrate how and why Reagan and Yeltsin succeeded in their political aspirations, despiteor perhaps because oftheir apparent policy extremism”: that is, their advocacy of policy positions far from the mainstream. The book analyzes the viability of policy extremism as a political strategy that enables candidates to forge new coalitions and outflank conventional political allegiances.Kiron K. Skinner is Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Carnegie Mellon University, a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a member of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel and the National Security Education Board. Serhiy Kudelia is Lecturer of Politics at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine and advisor to Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is Julius Silver Professor and Director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Condoleezza Rice is on a leave of absence from Stanford University, where she was a Professor of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is currently serving as U.S. Secretary of State.

The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan & Boris Yeltsin

Politics & Social Sciences

Skinner, Kiron K.

Politics & Government

Univ of Michigan Pr

The New York Times bestselling collection of Ronald Reagan’s letters—a definitive look at a man, an era, and a presidency. Ronald Reagan may have been the most prolific correspondent of any American president since Theodore Roosevelt, having likely written more than 10,000 letters in his lifetime to a wide array of friends and family, politicians, private citizens, and children. Honest, open, and heartfelt, Reagan’s letters reveal a man who felt most comfortable and natural with pen in hand, and a man who reached out to friend and foe alike throughout his life. Reagan: A Life in Letters is as important as it is astonishing and moving.

Reagan: A Life In Letters

Biographies & Memoirs

Anderson, Martin

Anderson, Annelise

Historical

Free Press

A collection of radio addresses by the late fortieth president is arranged chronologically from 1975 to 1980 and follows his strategic campaign tactics and victory speeches, in a volume complemented by a CD of original recordings and essays that offer insight into his ability to inspire confidence and loyalty in others. 75,000 first printing.

Reagan's Path to Victory: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings

Reagan In His Own Voice

A collection of Ronald Reagan's actual radio broadcasts, many of which he wrote himself, and given between the years 1975-1979, as he was preparing to run for the presidency, covers his views on everything from labor policy and the nature of communism to the SALT II treaty and America's destiny in the twenty-first century, and range from highly specific arguments to grand philosophy and personal stories. An audio original.

Simon & Schuster Audio

Reagan In His Own Voice features Ronald Reagan's radio addresses from the late 1970s. Edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, they are introduced by George Shultz and feature additional introductions by Nancy Reagan, Richard V. Allen, Judge William Clark, Michael Deaver, Peter Hannaford, Edwin Meese III and Harry O'Connor. From 1975 to 1979 Ronald Reagan gave more than 1,000 daily radio broadcasts, the great majority of which he wrote himself. This program represents the opening of a major archive of pre-presidential material from the Reagan Library and the Hoover Institution Archives. These addresses transform our image of Ronald Reagan, and enhance and revise our understanding of the late 1970s -- a time when Reagan held no political office, but was nonetheless mapping out a strategy to transform the economy, end the cold war, and create a vision of America that would propel him to the presidency. These radio programs demonstrate that Reagan had carefully considered nearly every issue he would face as president. Reagan's radio broadcasts will change his reputation even among his closest allies and friends. Here, in his own voice, Reagan the thinker is finally fully revealed.

The expert contributors examine the end of détente and the beginning of the new phase of the cold war in the early 1980s, Reagan's radical new strategies aimed at changing Soviet behavior, the peaceful democratic revolutions in Poland and Hungary, the events that brought about the reunification of Germany, the role of events in Third World countries, the critical contributions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and more.

Turning Points in Ending the Cold War (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

History

Americas

Hoover Institution Press

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The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan & Boris Yeltsin

Reagan: A Life In Letters

Reagan's Path to Victory: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings

Reagan In His Own Voice

Reagan In His Own Voice

Turning Points in Ending the Cold War (Hoover Institution Press Publication)