The Reagan Era - A History of the 1980s

In this concise but thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagans presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in the 1980s achieved impressive success in their efforts to transform American government, politics, and society, ushering in the political and social system Americans inhabit today

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About the author

Doug Rossinow, professor of history at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the author of numerous works, including Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo and is past president of the Peace History Society.

Summary

A definitive account of the efforts by Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and other conservatives to remake American politics, the American economy, and America’s approach to the world in a pivotal decade.

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"To Begin the World Over is an engaging, smart, wide-ranging, thorough, and well-written account of the presidency of Ronald Reagan and the world he helped to bring about." - Eric Arnesen, George Washington University

Product details

• Authors: Doug Rossinow, Rossinow Doug
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2015
• EAN: 9780231169882
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16988-2
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 238 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989