Annelise Anderson

Research Fellow
Biography: 

Annelise Anderson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 1981 to 1983, she was associate director for economics and government with the US Office of Management and Budget. She has also advised the governments of Russia, Romania, and the Republic of Georgia on economic reform. Anderson coauthored Ronald Reagan: Decisions of Greatness (2015) and Reagan's Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster (2010) with Martin Anderson. She has coedited a number of books, including Stories in His Own Hand: The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald Reagan (2007), with Kiron K. Skinner, Martin Anderson, and George Shultz; Reagan's Path to Victory: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writing (2004), with Kiron K. Skinner and Martin Anderson; Reagan: A Life in Letters (2004), with Kiron K. Skinner, Martin Anderson, and George Shultz; Reagan In His Own Voice (2001), with Kiron K. Skinner and Martin Anderson; and Reagan, in His Own Hand (2001), with Kiron K. Skinner and Martin Anderson. Anderson and Hoover fellow Dennis Bark coedited Thinking about America: The United States in the 1990s (1988), and she edited Political Money: Deregulating American Politics (2000), a collection of writings on campaign finance reform. She is also the author of Free BSD: An Open Source Operating System for Your Personal Computer (2001). The holder of PhD in business administration from Columbia University, she has been a Hoover fellow since 1983.

Her research papers are available at the Hoover Institution Archives.

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Analysis and Commentary

Killing The Reagan Legacy

by Annelise Andersonvia National Review
Saturday, September 26, 2015

In this fifth book in their series Killing, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard begin with the death of “the former leader of the free world, the man who defeated Soviet communism and ended the Cold War.”

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Ronald Reagan's Vision

by Annelise Anderson, Lowell Woodvia Defining Ideas
Friday, February 6, 2015

His hope for a world safe from long-range missile-delivered nuclear weapons may still become a reality. 

Ronald Reagan: Decisions of Greatness, the latest work of Martin and Annelise Anderson

Ronald Reagan: Decisions of Greatness

by Martin Anderson, Annelise Andersonvia Hoover Press
Sunday, February 1, 2015

Ronald Reagan's Cold War strategy, well established in his first year in office, did not change:  to make absolutely sure in the minds of the Soviets that they too would be destroyed in a nuclear war—even as Reagan sought an alternative through strategic defense to make nuclear missiles obsolete and thus eliminate the possibility of an all-out nuclear war.

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Remarks on Ronald Reagan, Intelligence, and the End of the Cold War

by Annelise Andersonvia Advancing a Free Society
Friday, November 11, 2011

These remarks were delivered at the November 2 Conference on Ronald Reagan, Intelligence and the End of the Cold War, co-sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Reagan Presidential Library.  They were taped by C-SPAN for later airing.

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On the 30th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s Election, A Valuable Lesson

by Annelise Andersonvia Advancing a Free Society
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Thirty years ago today, on November 4, 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected president of the United States. He garnered 50.7 percent of the popular vote and 489 of 535 electoral votes.

Ronald Reagan
Analysis and Commentary

On the 30th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's Election, A Valuable Lesson

by Annelise Andersonvia FoxNews.com
Thursday, November 4, 2010

The message of the election this year is not very different from the message in 1980: The government is too big, and it spends too much. Whether President Obama and the new Congress will be able to find a path from that message through the unlimited wants of government is the question...

Reagan’s Secret War by Martin and Annelise Anderson

Reagan's Secret War

by Martin Anderson, Annelise Anderson
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

On February 6, 1981, at his first National Security Council meeting, Ronald Reagan told his advisers: “I will make the decisions.” As Reagan’s Secret War reveals, these words provide the touchstone for understanding the extraordinary accomplishments of the Reagan administration, including the decisive events that led to the end of the Cold War. 

The Berlin Wall
Analysis and Commentary

On 20th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall, remembering Reagan's influence

by Annelise Andersonvia San Jose Mercury News
Sunday, November 8, 2009

The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolizes the end of the Cold War, just as the Wall itself for so long symbolized the division and competition between the communist East and the democratic West, between capitalism and socialism. . . .

Reagan’s Secret War

by Martin Anderson, Annelise Andersonvia Hoover Digest
Friday, October 9, 2009

This president played against type, pursuing a low-profile crusade to avoid nuclear Armageddon. An excerpt from a new book by Hoover fellows Martin and Annelise Anderson.

Reagan's Path to Victory

Reagan's Path to Victory: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings

by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Andersonvia Simon & Schuster
Wednesday, December 1, 2004

In the last years of Ronald Reagan's life, his voluminous writings on politics, policy, and people finally emerged and offered a Rosetta stone by which to understand him. From 1975 to 1979, in particular, he delivered more than 1,000 radio addresses, of which he wrote at least 680 himself.

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