The crusader

Drawing upon newly declassified presidential papers, untapped Soviet media archives, and new interviews with key players, Kengor traces Reagan's efforts to target the Soviet Union from his days as governor of California to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The book reveals Reagan's deep understanding of what it would take to bring down communism and his policy shifts that significantly weakened the USSR.

It also includes explosive revelations, such as a memo implicating a major American liberal politician in a scheme to enlist Soviet premier Yuri Andropov to help defeat Reagan's 1984 reelection bid.