Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Common Sense

One. The Time Is Now

Two. The Agenda

Three. Victory on Capitol Hill

Four. An Aggressive Foreign Policy

Five. The Purge

Six. 1983: The World at the Brink

Seven. The High Eighties

Eight. Days of Fear

Nine. The Winner

Ten. Arms and the Man

Eleven. The Crisis

Twelve. Strength Through Peace

Thirteen. The Election of Willie Horton

Fourteen. The Free World

Fifteen. Top of the Heap

Notes

Index