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PART A: THE AMERICAN RIGHT-WING TAKES COMMAND: KEY EXECUTIVE BRANCH
APPOINTMENTS
In the first major volume, Burch takes a close look at the economic
background and think thank ties of many of the people appointed to
high posts in these rightist regimes--officials such as the CIA's
William Casey, Reagan's first Secretary of the Interior, James Watt,
his second-term Attorney General (and first-term high White House
aide) Edwin Meese, and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. All of
these men were connected to some part of America's new
Counter-Establishment, a complex headed by such groups as the
American Enterprise Institute, Committee on the Present Danger,
Heritage Foundation, Institute for Contemporary Studies, and the
(Joseph Coors-backed) Mountain States Legal Foundation. This skewed
recruitment pattern also held true for many of the second- and third-
level posts in the adminstration of Ronald Reagan and, to a lesser
extent, George Bush.
Preface and Forward
SECTION I: THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION
1. President Reagan and the Key White House Staff (first term)
2. Reagan's Departments of State, Treasury, and Defense (first term)
3. Reagan's White House Staff and Key Inner Cabinet (second term)
4. Reagan's Department of Justice (and related agencies)
5. Reagan's Departments of the Interior and Energy (and EPA)
6. Reagan's Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Agriculture (and
ancillary agencies)
7. Reagan's Departments of Education, Health, and Human Services, HUD, and
Transportation
SECTION II: THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
8. The 1998 Election, George Bush, and His White House Staff
9. George Bush's Inner Cabinet (and other related posts)
10. Bush's Outer Cabinet Departments
442 pages, Index, December 1997
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PART B: THE AMERICAN RIGHT WING AT COURT AND IN ACTION: SUPREME COURT
NOMINATIONS AND MAJOR POLICYMAKING
Following the same line of analysis in the second part of this work,
the author found that four of the six people appointed to the
Supreme Court (or elevated to the top post of Chief Justice) during
this period were closely associated, at one time or another, with
right-wing think tanks -- namely, William Rehnquist, Anthony
Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas. Since "people make
policy" (an old axiom), it is not surprising that public policy in
the Reagan and Bush years took a sharp turn to the right. This was
particularly true in such important files as foreign policy,
military spending, and economics and taxation. In the last two
chapters of this book, Burch presents detailed case studies of the
political and economic forces at work in the Iran-Contra affair and
SDI (Star Wars) program.
Preface and Forward
1. The Reagan/Bush Supreme Court: A Bench Happily Filled?
2. Reaganomics: Financial Reform or 'Voodoo' Economics?
3. The Reaganite Military Buildup: An American Folly?
4. The 'Red Specter' in the Caribbean: Grenada and the Iran-Contra
Affair
305 pages, Index, December 1997
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