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MARTIN ANDERSON and ANNELISE ANDERSON, husband and wife, are coauthors of the New York Times bestsellers Reagan, In His Own Hand; Reagan: A Life in Letters; and Reagan’s Path to Victory. Both are Fellows at the Hoover Institution. Martin, an M.I.T. Ph.D., worked in the Reagan White House as an economic policy adviser and, more recently, sat on the Pentagon’s defense-policy board. Annelise, a Columbia Ph.D., was a senior policy adviser to the Reagan presidential campaign and was an associate director within Reagan’s Office of Management and Budget, where she was responsible for the budgets of five Cabinet departments and more than forty other agencies.

Books by Martin Anderson

Reagan's Secret War

Until Martin and Annelise Anderson arrived at the entrance of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, in 2004, the building's treasure trove of 8 million documents--many classified as secret or top-secret--had only been seen by a few archivists. Using the top-secret clearances he earned during his time in the Reagan administration, Martin Anderson was able to access Ronald Reagan's most privileged exchanges with subordinates and world leaders, as well as the tactical record of how Reagan fought to win the Cold War and control nuclear weapons. What emerges is irrefutable evidence that Reagan intended from his first days in office to bring down the Soviet Union, that he considered eliminating nuclear weapons his paramount objective, and that he--not his subordinates--was the principal architect of the policies that ultimately brought the Soviets to the nuclear-arms negotiating table.

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