Morning in America : how Ronald Reagan invented the 1980s /
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.
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2005] |
Series: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- 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 presidency
- 1986: 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?