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The Reagan Rhetoric : History and Memory in 1980s America / Toby Glenn Bates.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (252 p.) : 7 illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501757877
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.927092 23
LOC classification:
  • E877.2 .B38 2011
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1- States' Rights-Reagan and the 1964 Neshoba County Murders in American Memory -- 2-''A Noble Cause" -Twenty-Five Years of Consistency in Reagan's Vietnam Rhetoric -- 3-"Do We Get to Win This Time?'' -Reagan, Rambo and Platoon, and the Vietnam Veteran -- 4-Reagan, the Vietnam Veteran, 1980s Television, and Comics -- 5-Falling from Grace-The Inconsistency of Iran-Contra -- 6-Iran-Contra and Reagan's Return to Consistency -- 7-Reagan's Death and the Enduring Power of Collective Me -- Conclusion -- Appendix A-Ronald Reagan and the Vietnam War-Pre-presidential and Presidential Rhetoric -- Appendix B-Reagan and Contra Support, 1981-1988 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The Reagan Rhetoric examines the extraordinary connections between President Ronald Reagan's conversations with the American people and the profound changes that swept the nation under those conversations' influence. Through the lens of history, rhetoric, and memory, Bates' work draws connections between the style, manner, and consistency of Reagan's oratory and the social and cultural settings in which it played so vital a role. Specifically focusing on the 1980 Neshoba County Mississippi Campaign visit, the popular culture memory of the Vietnam War, and the controversy of Iran-Contra, this book illustrates Reagan's sweeping ability to change how Americans thought about themselves, their past, and their politics. By concluding with an examination of media coverage of Reagan's 2004 death, Bates reveals that certain interpretations Reagan rhetorically offered during his presidency had become an accepted collective memory for millions of Americans. In death, as in life, Reagan had the last word. Through extensive archival research, the careful examination of well-known and obscure 1980s print media and popular culture, as well as new interviews, Bates challenges the prevailing Reagan historiography and provides a thoughtful reality check on some of the traditional views of his eight years in the Oval Office. The Reagan Rhetoric offers new and important contributions to Reagan studies that will appeal to scholars of the 40th president. This look at the 1980s will be of great interest to the growing number of historians studying that decade.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1- States' Rights-Reagan and the 1964 Neshoba County Murders in American Memory -- 2-''A Noble Cause" -Twenty-Five Years of Consistency in Reagan's Vietnam Rhetoric -- 3-"Do We Get to Win This Time?'' -Reagan, Rambo and Platoon, and the Vietnam Veteran -- 4-Reagan, the Vietnam Veteran, 1980s Television, and Comics -- 5-Falling from Grace-The Inconsistency of Iran-Contra -- 6-Iran-Contra and Reagan's Return to Consistency -- 7-Reagan's Death and the Enduring Power of Collective Me -- Conclusion -- Appendix A-Ronald Reagan and the Vietnam War-Pre-presidential and Presidential Rhetoric -- Appendix B-Reagan and Contra Support, 1981-1988 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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The Reagan Rhetoric examines the extraordinary connections between President Ronald Reagan's conversations with the American people and the profound changes that swept the nation under those conversations' influence. Through the lens of history, rhetoric, and memory, Bates' work draws connections between the style, manner, and consistency of Reagan's oratory and the social and cultural settings in which it played so vital a role. Specifically focusing on the 1980 Neshoba County Mississippi Campaign visit, the popular culture memory of the Vietnam War, and the controversy of Iran-Contra, this book illustrates Reagan's sweeping ability to change how Americans thought about themselves, their past, and their politics. By concluding with an examination of media coverage of Reagan's 2004 death, Bates reveals that certain interpretations Reagan rhetorically offered during his presidency had become an accepted collective memory for millions of Americans. In death, as in life, Reagan had the last word. Through extensive archival research, the careful examination of well-known and obscure 1980s print media and popular culture, as well as new interviews, Bates challenges the prevailing Reagan historiography and provides a thoughtful reality check on some of the traditional views of his eight years in the Oval Office. The Reagan Rhetoric offers new and important contributions to Reagan studies that will appeal to scholars of the 40th president. This look at the 1980s will be of great interest to the growing number of historians studying that decade.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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