Hedrick Smith's Books

> Beyond Reagan: The Politics of Upheaval

The presidency of Ronald Reagan unleashed a tide of social, economic, and governmental changes unparalleled since Roosevelt's New Deal. Hedrick Smith joins fellow Washington Week in Review reporters Charles Corddy, Georgie Anne Geyer, Haynes Johnson, Charles McDowell and Jack Nelson to bring readers a collection of original essays and roundtable discussions from the award-winning PBS newsweekly.

Edited by Paul Duke, Beyond Reagan examines six critical issues:

Of People and Presidents in the Eighties: how Reagan's election may indicate a revolutionary shift in what Americans want in a presidential candidate.

The Reagan Legacy: Reagan's political office gained strength as he adopted a more aggressive leadership style.

Congress: A look at the voting patterns and alliances formed as a result of the Reagan administration.

Television and American Politics: How the media influenced the American political process during the Reagan era.

Star Wars: How Reagan's controversial space-based missile defense system would have changed our national defense strategy.

When the Future Becomes the Past: The rise of nostalgia and how it became a powerful-and perhaps dangerous-force in international politics.