The Cold War's Last Battlefield
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Edward A. Lynch is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Political Science Department at Hollins University. He is the author of Starting Over: A Political Biography of George Allen; Latin America's Christian Democratic Parties: A Political Economy; and Religion and Politics in Latin America: Liberation Theology and Christian Democracy.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. What Reagan Faced
2. Infighting: Wars over U.S. Foreign Policy
3. Opening Moves: The "Final Offensive," 1981
4. Making Enemies in Nicaragua, 1979-1982
5. The Wars Escalate, 1982-1983
6. The End of the Brezhnev Doctrine, 1983
7. Muddying (and Mining) the Waters, 1984-1985
8. The War at Home, 1981-1986
9. The Iran-Contra Scandal, 1986-1987
10. Another Year, Another Peace Plan, 1987
11. Endgame
12. Reagan's Legacy
Epilogue: Central America and the War on Terror
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