¹ Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s (Oxford, 1992), 66.

² Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up (W.W. Norton, 1997).

³ Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s (Oxford, 1992), 72.

⁴ US Bureau of the Census, Poverty in the United States, Series P-60, No. 185, 1993.

⁵ Congressional Budget Office, "Congressional Study: Tax Progressivity and Income Distribution," 26 March 1990. CIS#H782-11.

⁶ United States Bureau of the Census, Historical Census Reports, available at http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html, accessed 9 January 2009.

⁷ 1980 Presidential Election General Election Results, available at http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1980&f=1&off=0&elect=0, accessed 9 January 2009.

⁸ 1980 Presidential Election General Election Results, available at http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1980&f=1&off=0&elect=0, accessed 9 January 2009.

⁹ Ronald Reagan, first inaugural address, Washington, DC, 20 January 1981, available at http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/speeches/first.asp, accessed 9 January 2009.

¹⁰ Quoted in Lou Cannon, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (PublicAffairs, 2000), 32.

¹¹ Ronald Reagan, remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, 8 March 1983, available at http://www.ronaldreagan.com/sp_6.html, accessed 9 January 2009.

¹² Maurice Bishop, "In Nobody's Backyard," Radio Free Grenada Broadcast of 13 April 1979, in Maurice Bishop Speaks (Pathfinder, 1983), 30.

¹³ Quoted in Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s (Oxford, 1992), 47.

¹⁴ Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, 27 October 1983, http://www.presidentreagan.info/speeches/lebanon_and_grenada.cfm, accessed 9 January 2009.

¹⁵ Kai Schoenhals and Richard Melanson, Revolution and Intervention in Grenada: The New Jewel Movement, the United States, and the Caribbean (Westview, 1985), 153.

¹⁶ Quoted in Michael Kort, The Columbia Guide to the Cold War (Columbia, 2001), 76.

¹⁷ Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5034, "Afghanistan Day," 21 March 1983, http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1983/32183d.htm, accessed 9 January 2009.

¹⁸ John Karaagac, Between Promise and Policy: Ronald Reagan and Conservative Reformism (Lexington Books, 2001), 142.

¹⁹ Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "Consumer Price Index, 1913-2008," http://minneapolisfed.org/Research/data/us/calc/hist1913.cfm, accessed 9 January 2009.

²⁰ Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s (Oxford, 1992), 49-52.

²¹ Stephen Moore and Lawrence Kudlow, "It's the Reagan Economy, Stupid," Washington Times, 1 February 2000.

²² Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s (Oxford, 1992), 72.

²³ Investment Company Institute, "Equity Ownership in America, 2005," http://www.ici.org/pdf/rpt_05_equity_owners.pdf, accessed 9 January 2009.

²⁴ Jude Wanniski, quoted in Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s (Oxford, 1992), 27.

²⁵ Congressional Budget Office, "Congressional Study: Tax Progressivity and Income Distribution," 26 March 1990. CIS#H782-11.

²⁶ Quoted in Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s (Oxford, 1992), 47.

²⁷ Ronald Reagan, first inaugural address, 20 January 1981, http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/speeches/first.asp, accessed 9 January 2009.

²⁸ Quoted in Marcus Pohlmann and Linda Vallar Whisenhunt, Student's Guide to Landmark Congressional Laws on Civil Rights (Greenwood Press, 2002), 215.

²⁹ Kevin Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority (Arlington House, 1969).

³⁰ Quoted in New York Times Magazine, 17 May 1970.

³¹ Quoted in Alexander P. Lamis, "The Future of Southern Politics: New Directions for Dixie," in Joe P. Dunn and Lawrence Preston, eds., The Future South: A Historical Perspective for the Twenty-first Century (U. of Illinois Press, 1991), 61.

³² Quoted in Alexander P. Lamis, "The Future of Southern Politics: New Directions for Dixie," in Joe P. Dunn and Lawrence Preston, ed., The Future South: A Historical Perspective for the Twenty-first Century (U. of Illinois Press, 1991), 61-62.

³³ New York Times, 4 August 1980.

³⁴ Quoted in Joseph Crespino, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press, 2001), 1.

³⁵ David Brooks, "History and Calumny," New York Times, 9 November 2007.

³⁶ Joseph Crespino, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press, 2001), 1.

³⁷ Joseph Crespino, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press, 2001), 1.

³⁸ New York Times, 15 February 1976

³⁹ Jay Cocks, "Round the World, a Boss Boom," Time21 June 2005, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1074763-3,00.html, accessed 9 January 2009.

⁴⁰ Quoted in Rob Kirkpatrick, The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen (Greenwood, 2006), 106.

⁴¹ Quoted in Rob Kirkpatrick, The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen (Greenwood, 2006), 106.

⁴² Rob Kirkpatrick, The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen (Greenwood, 2006), 106.

⁴³ Todd Leopold, "Analysis: The Age of Reagan," CNN.com, 16 June 2004, http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/06/16/reagan.80s/index.html, accessed 9 January 2009.

⁴⁴ "Today's Voters: How Generation Influences Party," New York Times, 14 October 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/10/14/weekinreview/15kirk_graphic.ready.html, accessed 9 January 2009.

⁴⁵ Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s (Oxford, 1992), 37.

⁴⁶ Alan Brinkley and Davis Dyer, The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency (Houghton Mifflin, 2000), 499.

⁴⁷ Gary Scott Smith, Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush (Oxford, 2006), 361.

⁴⁸ Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s (Oxford, 1992), 72.

⁴⁹ Anne Edwards, The Reagans: Portrait of a Marriage (St. Martin's, 2004), 43.

⁵⁰ Quoted in Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s (Oxford, 1992), 37.

⁵¹ Ronald Reagan, first inaugural address, 20 January 1981, http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/speeches/first.asp, accessed 9 January 2009.

⁵² Ronald Reagan, speech accepting Republican nomination for president, 17 July 1980, http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/speeches/speech.asp?spid=18, accessed 9 January 2009.

⁵³ Ronald Reagan, speech to the House of Commons, 8 June 1982, http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=449, accessed 9 January 2009.

⁵⁴ Ronald Reagan, address to the nation on Iran-Contra, 13 November 1986, http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/111386c.htm, accessed 9 January 2009.

⁵⁵ Ronald Reagan, address to the nation on Iran-Contra, 4 March 1987, http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1987/030487h.htm, accessed 9 January 2009.

⁵⁶ Ronald Reagan, remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, 12 June 1987, http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/wall.asp, accessed 9 January 2009.

⁵⁷ Ronald Reagan et al, Reagan: A Life in Letters (Simon and Schuster, 2003), 833.