Sagebrush Rebel: Reagan's Battle with Environmental Extremists and Why It Matters Today by William Perry Pendley

The fascinating story of how Ronald Reagan, self-proclaimed "sagebrush rebel", took his revolutionary energy policies to Washington and revitalized the American economy. 

Governor Reagan, with his unbridled faith in American ingenuity, creativity, and know-how and his confidence in the free-enterprise system, believed the United States would transcend the Soviet Union. To do so, however, President Reagan had to revive and revitalize an American economy reeling from a double-digit trifecta (unemployment, inflation, and interest rates), and he knew the economy could not grow without reliable sources of energy that America had in abundance.

Hardcover. 256 pages. Published 2013.