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Online-Ressource (447 p)
ISBN:
9780691130606
Series Statement:
Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America v.93
Content:
Did America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often ""yes."" In Morning in America, Gil Troy argues that the Great Communicator was also the Great Conciliator. His pioneering and lively reassessment of Ronald Reagan's legacy takes us through the 1980s in ten year-by-year chapters, integrating the story of the Reagan presidency with stories of the decade's cultural icons and watershed moments-from personalities to popular television shows. One such watershed moment was the
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Ronald Reagan's Defining Vision for the 1980s-and America; 1980 Cleveland: "There You Go Again!" Defeating Defeatism-and Jimmy Carter; 1981 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: The Ronald Reagan Show, the New Dynasty, and David Stockman's Reaganomics; 1982 Hill Street: The Other America's Blues; 1983 Beaufort, South Carolina: The Big Chill and the Great Reconciliation: Where the Sixties Meet the Eighties; 1984 Los Angeles: The Wizard of America's Id Chooses Patriotism over Politics
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1985 Brooklyn, New York: Bill Cosby's Multicultural America Meets Ronald Reagan's Celebrity Presidency1986 Wall Street: The Wild, Wild East and the Reagan Money Culture; 1987 Mourning in America Fiascos at Home and Abroad; 1988 Stanford: The Culture Wars: Closing and Opening the American Mind; 1989 Kennebunkport, Maine: The Bush Restoration: Kinder, Gentler, but Still Reaganite; 1990 Boston: First Night, New Decade: Why So Blue?; A Note on Method and Sources; A Guide to Abbreviations in Notes; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400849307
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691130606
Additional Edition:
Print version Morning in America : How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's
Language:
English
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