Start here to learn more about the events discussed in this chapter.
Lou Cannon, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (2000). A valuable overview of the Reagan presidency.
William Martin, With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America (1996).
Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001). Explores the rise of the New Right.
James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (2005). Provides a solid analysis of the 1980s and 1990s.
On foreign policy, consult Richard A. Melanson, American Foreign Policy Since the Vietnam War (2005), and Raymond Garthoff, The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War (1994).
Two fine Web sites that document various Cold War incidents are the National Security Archive, at gwu.edu/~nsarchiv, and the Cold War International History Project, at wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1409.