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Umfang: 417 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 0-691-09645-7 , 978-0-691-13060-6 , 0-691-13060-4

Serie: Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Inhalt: Chronicles the political events of the 1980s, offering a year-by-year account of the economic and cultural changes that took place during Ronald Reagan's two terms in the White House.

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Politologie

Schlagwort(e): 1911-2004 Reagan, Ronald ; Government

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Umfang: Online-Ressource (447 p)

ISBN: 9780691130606

Serie: Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America v.93

Inhalt: 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

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record , 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 , 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

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781400849307

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780691130606

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Morning in America : How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Electronic books

URL: Volltext

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Umfang: 1 online resource (446 pages)

ISBN: 9781400849307 (e-book)

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Troy, Gil. Morning in America : how Ronald Reagan invented the 1980s. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2005] ISBN 9780691130606

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Electronic books.

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Umfang: 1 online resource (447 p.)

Ausgabe: Course Book

ISBN: 0-691-09645-7 , 1-4008-4930-6

Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America ; 93

Inhalt: 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 1980's 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 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. With the trauma of Vietnam fading, the triumph of America's 1983 invasion of tiny Grenada still fresh, and a reviving economy, Americans geared up for a festival of international harmony that-spurred on by an entertainment-focused news media, corporate sponsors, and the President himself-became a celebration of the good old U.S.A. At the Games' opening, Reagan presided over a thousand-voice choir, a 750-member marching band, and a 90,000-strong teary-eyed audience singing "America the Beautiful!" while waving thousands of flags. Reagan emerges more as happy warrior than angry ideologue, as a big-picture man better at setting America's mood than implementing his program. With a vigorous Democratic opposition, Reagan's own affability, and other limiting factors, the eighties were less counterrevolutionary than many believe. Many sixties' innovations went mainstream, from civil rights to feminism. Reagan fostered a political culture centered on individualism and consumption-finding common ground between the right and the left. Written with verve, Morning in America is both a major new look at one of America's most influential modern-day presidents and the definitive story of a decade that continues to shape our times.

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , 1980 Cleveland -- , 1981 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- , 1982 Hill Street -- , 1983 Beaufort, South Carolina -- , 1984 Los Angeles -- , 1985 Brooklyn, New York -- , 1986 Wall Street -- , 1987 Mourning in America -- , 1988 Stanford -- , 1989 Kennebunkport, Maine -- , 1990 Boston -- , A Note on Method and Sources -- , A Guide to Abbreviations in Notes -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , Issued also in print. , In English.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-691-13060-4

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 1-299-99997-2

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781400849307