The Education of Ronald Reagan : : The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism /

The Education of Ronald Reagan : : The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism / / Thomas Evans.

In October 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a televised speech in support of Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. "The Speech," as it has come to be known, helped launch Ronald Reagan as a leading force in the American conservative movement. However, less than twenty years earlier, Rea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Evans, Thomas,
MitwirkendeR:
Boulware, Lemuel,
Reagan, Ronald,
Reuther, Walter P.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 6 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Part I. Background
  • 1. A New Dealer to the Core
  • 2. Politics: War by Different Means
  • Part II. A Postgraduate Course in Political Science
  • 3. Boulwarism
  • 4. The Plant Tour
  • 5. Schools, Classes, and Trains
  • Part III. An Apprenticeship for Public Life
  • 6. The Campaign
  • 7. Allies
  • 8. The Speech
  • 9. Two Unions
  • 10. The Art of Negotiation
  • Part IV. Encouraging an Increasing Majority of Citizens
  • 11. The Campaign Continues
  • 12. The Presidential Bug
  • 13. A President's Vision
  • Appendix. Speeches of Reuther, Boulware, and Reagan
  • Labor and the community
  • Salvation Is Not Free
  • A Time for Choosing ("The Speech" )
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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