Jason Saltoun-Ebin

Jason Saltoun-Ebin

Jason Saltoun-Ebin is the author or editor  of 4 books, including "The Reagan Files: The Untold Story of Reagan's Top-Secret Efforts to Win the Cold War," (2010), "The Reagan Files: Inside the National Security Council. (2012, 2014),  "Dear Mr. President...Reagan/Gorbachev and the Correspondence that Ended the Cold War." (2013) and most recently, "The Reagan Files 2025: The First Term." His books present new evidence from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and other archives that help to explain President Reagan's role in ending the Cold War. Saltoun-Ebin, an attorney licensed in California and Wisconsin, resides in Santa Barbara, Calif. with his wife, three young children, and their two Portugese Water dogs. In his spare time he can usually be found on the tennis or pickleball courts. You can sign up to get updates about his writing here.

Books

The Reagan Files 2025 : The First Term (Abridged)

Jason Saltoun-Ebin’s monograph The Reagan Files 2025: The First Term takes readers inside the White House to experience what it was like to be in the room as President Reagan and his senior advisers struggled to craft a foreign policy that would lead the United States to victory in the decades long Cold War.

Based on over two decades of research...

Dear Mr. President...: Reagan/Gorbachev and the Correspondence that ended the Cold War

In “Dear Mr. President...Reagan/Gorbachev and the Correspondences that Ended the Cold War”, historian Jason Saltoun-Ebin sheds new light on the end of the Cold War by presenting, in many cases for the first time, the top-secret correspondence between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev that started the first day Gorbachev came to power....

The Reagan Files: The Untold Story of Reagan’s Top-Secret Efforts to Win the Cold War (Based on Recently Declassified Letters and National Security Council Meeting Minutes)

“Did Ronald Reagan Win the Cold War? Jason Saltoun-Ebin has spent nine years at the Reagan Presidential Library and other archives finding the original documents and Oval Office notes that take us as close as we are likely to come to answering one of the great questions of the twentieth century.”

-- Richard Reeves, bestselling author of books on...

Blog

Welcome to the "new" Reagan Files website The Reagan Files is back.... sort

The Reagan Files is back.... sort of... I can't believe it was about 15 years ago that I started the original Reagan Files website. At the time digitization at the Reagan Library was practically non-existent and I had so much material I wanted to share that putting it up on a website became a must-do at the time. I loved that website and I particularly loved some of the collaborations I was able to put together.

Fast-forward to about 10 years later and all of a sudden the National Archives...