Reagan Era - A History of the 1980s

In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagan's 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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Common Sense
1. The Time Is Now
2. The Agenda
3. Victory on Capitol Hill
4. An Aggressive Foreign Policy
5. The Purge
6. 1983: The World at the Brink
7. The High Eighties
8. Days of Fear
9. The Winner
10. Arms and the Man
11. The Crisis
12. Strength Through Peace
13. The Election of Willie Horton
14. The Free World
15. Top of the Heap
Notes
Index

About the author

Doug Rossinow

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.

Report

"This comprehensive work is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand the politics of a pivotal decade." - Washington Independent Review of Books

Product details

• Authors: Doug Rossinow, Douglas C. Rossinow, Rossinow Doug
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2016
• EAN: 9780231169899
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16989-9
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; 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