Ronald Reagan and the 1980s
Perceptions, Policies, Legacies
Hudson, Cheryl (EDT)
Davies, Gareth (EDT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
By the end of the 1980s, many Americans looked at the state of the nation with a renewed optimism. America was the world's only superpower, Communism had been defeated, the economic misery and inflation of the late 1970s and early 1980s had given way to prosperity and vast global wealth, and a new swashbuckling patriotism had entered into the public imagination. This patriotism and optimism was personified by an enduring American president--Ronald Wilson Reagan. The essays in this volume revisit the 1980s in order to examine the factors that contributed to Ronald Reagan's political and cultural triumphs, provide an assessment of the political, social, and economic substance and legacy of his policies--not just for Americans but for the shape of the world order.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction--Cheryl Hudson & Gareth Bryn Davies * PART I: PERCEPTIONS * Towards a Historiography of Reagan and the 1980s: Why Are We Doing Such a Lousy Job?--Gil Troy * The Reagan Years--Dan Rather * Only an Actor!: Making a Movie with a Professional--Godfrey Hodgson * Ronald Reagan and the Struggle over American Memory--Niels Bjerre-Poulsen * PART II: POLICIES * The Other Red Peril: The Politics of the Budget Deficit in the 1980s--Iwan Morgan * Civil Rights and the Reagan Presidency--Stephen Knott * "Just Say No:" Drug Abuse Policy in the Reagan Administration--Peter Bourne * Reagan's Religious Right: The Unlikely Alliance between Southern Evangelicals and a California Conservative--Daniel Williams * PART III: LEGACIES * Transforming the Presidency: The Administration of Ronald Reagan--Joel D. Aberbach * Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War--Jack Matlock * Reagan and Thatcher--Dominic Sandbrook * The Reagan Administration and the Republican Party: Responses to Realignment--Robert Mason
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0230603025
ISBN(13-digit): 9780230603028
Dewey Decimal: 973.927092
Library of Congress: 2008016176
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 268
