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The Reagan Manifesto

“A Time for Choosing” and its Influence

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Editors:
  1. Eric D. Patterson

    1. Robertson School of Government, Regent University Robertson School of Government, Virginia Beach, USA

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  2. Jeffry H. Morrison

    1. Robertson School of Government, Regent University Robertson School of Government, Virginia Beach, USA

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  • Offers contributions from leading scholarly voices analyzing the legacy of Ronald Reagan's defining 1964 "A Time for Choosing" speech
  • Presents diverse perspectives across traditional disciplinary borders of history, political science, current affairs, and foreign policy
  • Traces the roots of modern conservative thinking and its international influence

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-xxi
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  2. Introduction: The Reagan Manifesto—Reflections on “A Time for Choosing” at 50

    • Jeffry H. Morrison, Eric D. Patterson
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Intellectual Roots of Reagan’s Foreign Policy

    • Ionut C. Popescu
    Pages 13-28

  4. When Maggie Chose Ronnie—and When She Didn’t: An Exploration of “Thatcherite” and “Reaganite” Foreign Policies

    • Claire Berlinski
    Pages 29-46

  5. “The Speech”: Reagan, the Russians, and the Bomb

    • Stephen F. Knott
    Pages 47-59

  6. Preserving America’s Written Constitution: Federal Courts and President Reagan’s Defense of Ordered Liberty

    • Darren Patrick Guerra
    Pages 61-76

  7. American Exceptionalism and the Reagan Doctrine: The Belief That Won the Cold War

    • Joseph Loconte
    Pages 77-96

  8. A New Time for Choosing on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Today’s Challenges to the Principles of Ronald Reagan’s Conservative Manifesto

    • Ryan T. Anderson
    Pages 97-108

  9. Ideas That Travel: Coolidge, Reagan, and Conservative Economic Policy

    • Amity Shlaes
    Pages 109-113

  10. Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing”: A Christian Realist Reading

    • Eric D. Patterson
    Pages 115-130

  11. A Time for Choosing (The Speech—October 27, 1964)

    • Ronald Reagan
    Pages 131-141

  12. Erratum to: The Reagan Manifesto

    • Eric D. Patterson, Jeffry H. Morrison
    Pages E1-E2

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 143-151
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About this book

This book examines how Ronald Reagan’s electrifying 1964 televised speech, “A Time For Choosing,” ignited the conservative movement within the GOP. Ronald Reagan’s televised speech, or what many conservatives today simply call “The Speech,” was a call for action, telling Americans that now was “A Time for Choosing.” “The Speech” catapulted Reagan into national politics, the California governorship, and ultimately the presidency. The themes of the speech, including anti-Communism, strong national defense, and the need to protect the average American from taxes and bureaucracy, ignited the conservative movement in the GOP, resulting over time in the sidelining of the more liberal, establishment wing of the Republican Party. The contributors in this edited volume show how Ronald Reagan’s “coming out” speech on the national stage helped set the political agenda for the next three decades.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • Robertson School of Government, Regent University Robertson School of Government, Virginia Beach, USA

    Eric D. Patterson, Jeffry H. Morrison

About the editors

Eric D. Patterson is Dean and Professor at the Robertson School of Government at Regent University, USA, and Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, USA.  


Jeffry H. Morrison is Professor of Government at Regent University, USA, and Director of Academics at the federal government's James Madison Foundation in Virginia, USA. 


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