The Reagan Era : : A History of the 1980s / / Doug Rossinow.

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 t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Common Sense
  • One. The Time Is Now
  • Two. The Agenda
  • Three. Victory on Capitol Hill
  • Four. An Aggressive Foreign Policy
  • Five. The Purge
  • Six. 1983: The World at the Brink
  • Seven. The High Eighties
  • Eight. Days of Fear
  • Nine. The Winner
  • Ten. Arms and the Man
  • Eleven. The Crisis
  • Twelve. Strength Through Peace
  • Thirteen. The Election of Willie Horton
  • Fourteen. The Free World
  • Fifteen. Top of the Heap
  • Notes
  • Index