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Acknowledgments The authors express their sincere appreciation to the staff at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and especially to archivist Cate Sewell, who helped us find speech drafts and other archival material. Professors Martin Medhurst and Ray Dearin both provided thoughtful feedback on an early paper on this subject. We are grateful to Ryan Shepherd who assisted with finding secondary material on the speech, and to members of the Rhetoric Workshop at the University of Kansas,who offered constructive feedback on an early draft of this book. Finally, we express our thanks to Maureen Creamer Bemko for her meticulous copy editing. This book is dedicated the parents of John Jones and to Donna Paul for filling our lives with joy and to all those who struggled for both democracy and peace during the cold war. ...

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