Editing Evil Empire speech (section)

==Sources==
* {{Cite book |last=Cannon |first=Lou |author-link=Lou Cannon |title=President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime |publisher=[[PublicAffairs]] |year=2000 |isbn=1-891620-91-6 |edition=First PublicAffairs}}
* {{Cite book |last=Cooper |first=James |title=Ronald Reagan's 1984: Politics, Policy, and Culture |last2=Richardson |first2=R.&nbsp;J. |last3=Schwab |first3=Bailey |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |year=2024 |isbn=978-3-031-53676-2 |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-53677-9}}
* {{Cite news |last=Davis |first=Donald A. |date=March 8, 1983 |title=President Reagan Warned Tuesday Against 'Simple-minded Appeasement' |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/03/08/President-Reagan-warned-Tuesday-against-simple-minded-appeasement/1542415947600/ |publisher=[[United Press International]]}}
* {{Cite book |last=Gaddis |first=John Lewis |title=The Cold War: A New History |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2005 |isbn=1-59420-062-9}}
* {{cite journal | first = G. Thomas | last = Goodnight | title = Ronald Reagan's re-formulation of the rhetoric of war: Analysis of the 'zero option,' 'evil empire,' and 'star wars' addresses | journal = Quarterly Journal of Speech | volume = 72 | issue = 4 | year = 1986 | pages = 390–414 | doi = 10.1080/00335638609383784 }}
* {{Cite magazine |last=Harsch |first=Joseph C. |author-link=Joseph C. Harsch |date=April 26, 1983 |title=Are Russians Human? |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1983/0426/042623.html |magazine=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]}}
* {{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Seth G. |title=A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland |publisher=W.&nbsp;W. Norton |year=2018 |isbn=978-0393247008 |language=en}}
* {{Cite book |last=Medovoi |first=Leerom |title=American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment |publisher=[[University of Iowa Press]] |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-60938-113-4 |editor-last=Belletto |editor-first=Steven |pages=163–186 |chapter=The Race War Within: The Biopolitics of the Long Cold War |editor-last2=Grausam |editor-first2=Daniel}}
* {{Cite thesis |last=Peterson |first=Jon Richard |title="An Evil Empire": The Rhetorical Rearmament of Ronald Reagan |date=June 2010 |degree=PhD |publisher=Ohio University |url=https://etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/ws/send_file/send?accession=ohiou1273107940&disposition=inline}}
* {{cite journal | first1 = Robert C. | last1 = Rowland | first2 = John M. | last2 = Jones | title = Reagan's Strategy for the Cold War and the Evil Empire Address | journal = Rhetoric & Public Affairs | volume = 19 | issue = 3 | date = October 2016 | pages = 427–463 | doi = 10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.3.0427 | s2cid = 151775200 }}
* {{Cite book |last=Schlesinger |first=Robert |title=White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2008 |isbn=978-0743291699}}