Steven Hayward: The Age of Reagan

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Partner:: Hoover Institution
Location:: Hoover Institution
Stanford, CA
Event Date:: 08.21.09
Speakers:: Steven Hayward,; Peter Robinson
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Summary: Discussing his new book, The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, Hayward asserts that Ronald Reagan was one of the most consequential presidents in American history.

In foreign affairs, he presents Reagan as possessing unique insights into issues that had confounded the policy establishment for decades and as willing to battle not only with the Democratic opposition but also with the conventional reflexes of much of his own party and staff. Against prevailing opinion, Hayward defends his proposition that Reagan�s domestic record is commensurate with his foreign achievements: "One person saved the Reagan Revolution from retreat and rout. That person was Ronald Reagan."

Finally, Hayward argues that, "if Reagan failed in a permanent alignment the way Roosevelt did with the New Deal, it was because the Republican Party, its successors, and even Reagan himself were not a full-fledged constitutional movement."

Just what would such a constitutional movement look like today?

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Steven Hayward

Steven F. Hayward writes on a wide range of public policy issues. He is the coauthor of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators; the producer and host of An Inconvenient Truth . . . or Convenient Fiction?, a rebuttal to Al Gore's documentary; and the author of many books on environmental topics. He has written biographies of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and of Winston Churchill. Mr. Hayward is also a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute. He contributes to AEI's Energy and Environment Outlook series.

Peter Robinson

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits the Hoover Institution's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, "Uncommon Knowledge."

Robinson is also the author of three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life; It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP; and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA.

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01.: Beginning with 'Tear Down This Wall'

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02.: Cold War in Early Reagan Years

07 min 35 sec

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03.: Reaganomics

06 min 23 sec

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04.: Mixed Domestic Policy Record

02 min 05 sec

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05.: Summits with Gorbachev

07 min 49 sec

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06.: Reagan's Legacy

05 min 54 sec

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07.: Biggest Surprise

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Was President Reagan Unprepared to Push the Button?

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Steven Hayward Champions a Modern Constitutional Movement

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