The Washington Post, March 20th, 2005
RONALD REAGAN AND HIS QUEST TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS By Paul Lettow. Random House. 327 pp. $25.95 Paul Lettow has found the purloined letter of the Reagan presidency: the fact that much of his Cold War policy was driven by a desire to eliminate all nuclear weapons. This aspect of Reagan is part of the public record but has so far been hidden in plain view because it doesn't seem to fit his conservatism and seems so otherwise outlandish. Lettow, a first-time author whose book resulted from his work on an Oxford doctorate, demonstrates that Reagan had acquired his fundamental beliefs in this ...
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