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Morning in America : How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's / Gil Troy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics and Society in Modern America ; 93Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (448 p.) : 16 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691130606
  • 9781400849307
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.927/092 973.927092
LOC classification:
  • E169.12 .T765 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
Summary: 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 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.
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Frontmatter -- 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

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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 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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