By the end of the 1980s, many Americans looked at the state of the nation with a renewed optimism, which was personified by an enduring American president - Ronald Wilson Reagan. The essays in this volume revisit the 1980s in order to examine the factors that contributed to his political and cultural triumphs and assess his legacy. ÍNDICE: - Introduction; C.Hudson & G.Bryn Davies - PART I: PERCEPTIONS - Towards a Historiography of Reagan and the 1980s: Why Are We Doing Such a LousyJob?; G.Troy - The Reagan Years; D.Rather - Only an Actor!: Making a Movie with a Professional; G.Hodgson - Ronald Reagan and the Struggle over American Memory; N.Bjerre-Poulsen - PART II: POLICIES - The Other Red Peril: The Politicsof the Budget Deficit in the 1980s; I.Morgan - Civil Rights and the Reagan Presidency; S.Knott - Just Say No: Drug Abuse Policy in the Reagan Administration; P.Bourne - Reagan's Religious Right: The Unlikely Alliance between SouthernEvangelicals and a California Conservative; D.Williams - PART III: LEGACIES -Transforming the Presidency: The Administration of Ronald Reagan; J.D.Aberbach - Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War; J.Matlock - Reagan and Thatcher; D.Sandbrook - The Reagan Administration and the Republican Party: Responses to Realignment; R.Mason
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60302-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 26/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés