Today, we talk with a professor at Grove City College who is the executive director of the College's The Center for Vision and Values. He reviews William Inboden's recent book, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink. Our guest has written eight books on Reagan, so this new book was of special interest to him.

We didn't have nearly enough time to do Inboden's book justice, but we do talk about the life of Reagan, and one of his principles - that of peace through strength. We talk about Reagan deploying Pershing II intermediate-range nuclear forces (INFs) in Europe. This had the intended effect of driving the Soviet Union to the peace table. Gorbachev and Reagan met at the Washington Summit in December 1987, where they signed the INF Treaty. "As Inboden�s book might put it (his opening epigraph is Matt. 5:9), �Blessed are the peacemakers.� Reagan, indeed, had sought to peacefully win the Cold War. And he was driven by a religious sense to literally do God�s will on behalf of peace." Participants: Dr. Paul Kengor, Dan Elmendorf