Reagan Vindicated

They say Ronald Reagan ignored AIDS, gutted the middle class, and winked at racists. Here's the evidence that answers all fifteen charges.

Reagan Vindicated is for the Reagan admirer tired of losing the dinner-table argument, for the independent still weighing the record, and for the student who's only ever heard that Reaganomics ruined everything.

Every myth gets the same treatment: the accusation as critics tell it, the debunk with dates and figures, the political motive behind it, and the sources so you can check the work yourself.

By the last page, you'll be able to:

Answer the AIDS-indifference charge with the actual funding timeline, and the Surgeon General who credited Reagan for letting him speak plainly

Explain who the "welfare queen" really was, and stop conceding the racism charge before the conversation even starts

Point to the morning he signed the King holiday and the year he extended the Voting Rights Act, instead of arguing from memory

Separate the failures worth conceding, Beirut and Iran-Contra, from the slanders worth fighting

Spot the next manufactured myth before it spreads, because you'll understand how the last fifteen were built
Trace every claim back to presidential papers, the Congressional Record, and firsthand memoirs

No hero worship. No hedging. Just the record, restored.

The 1980s are still being rewritten by people counting on you not to check. Get your copy of Reagan Vindicated and take the myths apart, one at a time.