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Historical person
1911–2004
Ronald Reagan served as president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 after careers in film, broadcasting and California politics. His administration pursued tax reduction, deregulation, anti-union policies and a major military build-up while confronting the Soviet Union. Reagan later negotiated arms reductions with Mikhail Gorbachev, but his presidency was also marked by the Iran–Contra scandal, the AIDS crisis and widening economic inequality.
Reagan appears more often in political thrillers, alternate histories and novels of the late Cold War than as the central subject of established historical fiction. Writers use his public optimism, performance skills and conservative rhetoric as defining features of the 1980s. Fictional portrayals vary sharply according to whether the era is remembered as renewal, escalation or social abandonment.
Ken Follett’s Edge of Eternity places Ronald Reagan within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government and crime, espionage and covert power.
Series
The Century Trilogy follows five interconnected families from Britain, Germany, Russia and the United States from the years before the First World War to the collapse of Communist rule in Europe. Across three generations, miners, aristocrats, diplomats, political organisers, soldiers and journalists experience public events through marriages, rivalries…
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