Several competing mythologies have developed about Reagan's role in the end of the Cold War.  Was he a brilliant strategist whose confrontation and pugnacity "won" America's four-decade conflict with the Soviet Union? or was the 40th president merely lucky - or utterly irrelevant? In fact, the true story is a complex blend of both these conclusions, with a strong mixture of secret, personalized diplomacy at home and abroad that has largely been ignored by historians until now. 
 
In this book, the author deirects his keen analysis to Ronald Regan's role in the ending the Cold War.  Drawing on new interviews and previously unavailable documents, he offers a fresh and compelling narrative - a new history assessing what Reagan did, and did not do, to help bring America's conflict with the Soviet Union to a close.