Reconsidering Reagan

Author : Daniel S. Lucks
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807029572

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Reconsidering Reagan by Daniel S. Lucks Pdf

2021 Prose Award Finalist A long-overdue and sober examination of President Ronald Reagan’s racist politics that continue to harm communities today and helped shape the modern conservative movement. Ronald Reagan is hailed as a transformative president and an American icon, but within his twentieth-century politics lies a racial legacy that is rarely discussed. Both political parties point to Reagan as the “right” kind of conservative but fail to acknowledge his political attacks on people of color prior to and during his presidency. Reconsidering Reagan corrects that narrative and reveals how his views, policies, and actions were devastating for Black Americans and racial minorities, and that the effects continue to resonate today. Using research from previously untapped resources including the Black press which critically covered Reagan’s entire political career, Daniel S. Lucks traces Reagan’s gradual embrace of conservatism, his opposition to landmark civil rights legislation, his coziness with segregationists, and his skill in tapping into white anxiety about race, riding a wave of “white backlash” all the way to the Presidency. He argues that Reagan has the worst civil rights record of any President since the 1920s—including supporting South African apartheid, packing courts with conservatives, targeting laws prohibiting discrimination in education and housing, and launching the “War on Drugs”—which had cataclysmic consequences on the lives of Black and Brown people. Linking the past to the present, Lucks expertly examines how Reagan set the blueprint for President Trump and proves that he is not an anomaly, but in fact the logical successor to bring back the racially tumultuous America that Reagan conceptualized.

Author : Randall Balmer
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467462907

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Bad Faith by Randall Balmer Pdf

A surprising and disturbing origin story There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: with righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion after the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. The problem is this story simply isn’t true. Largely ambivalent about abortion until the late 1970s, evangelical leaders were first mobilized not by Roe v. Wade but by Green v. Connally, a lesser-known court decision in 1971 that threatened the tax-exempt status of racially discriminatory institutions—of which there were several in the world of Christian education at the time. When the most notorious of these schools, Bob Jones University, had its tax-exempt status revoked in 1976, evangelicalism was galvanized as a political force and brought into the fold of the Republican Party. Only later, when a more palatable issue was needed to cover for what was becoming an increasingly unpopular position following the civil rights era, was the moral crusade against abortion made the central issue of the movement now known as the Religious Right. In this greatly expanded argument from his 2014 Politico article “The Real Origins of the Religious Right,” Randall Balmer guides the reader along the convoluted historical trajectory that began with American evangelicalism as a progressive force opposed to slavery, then later an isolated apolitical movement in the mid-twentieth century, all the way through the 2016 election in which 81 percent of white evangelicals coalesced around Donald Trump for president. The pivotal point, Balmer shows, was the period in the late 1970s when American evangelicals turned against Jimmy Carter—despite his being one of their own, a professed “born-again” Christian—in favor of the Republican Party, which found it could win their loyalty through the espousal of a single issue. With the implications of this alliance still unfolding, Balmer’s account uncovers the roots of evangelical watchwords like “religious freedom” and “family values” while getting to the truth of how this movement began—explaining, in part, what it has become.

Author : Richard Steven Conley
Publisher : Upa
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056495974

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Reassessing the Reagan Presidency by Richard Steven Conley Pdf

Essays collected here, first presented at the International Conference on the History of the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, March 2002, represent a cross-section of presidency scholars in the fields of history and political science. After an overview of the current state of research on the Reagan presidency, essays address Reagan's "public" or "rhetorical" presidency, his connection with conservatives and conservatism, and institutional politics in the Reagan years. Conley teaches political science at the University of Florida. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Will Bunch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781416597636

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Tear Down This Myth by Will Bunch Pdf

Challenges popular conceptions about the 40th president's administration and legacy, arguing that subsequent presidents and conservative policymakers have exploited the country's misunderstandings of Reagan's achievements to promote risky agendas. Reprint.

Author : Ronald Reagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Executive power
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043527501

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Restoring the Presidency by Ronald Reagan Pdf

Author : Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495639

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Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights by Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard Pdf

Demonstrates how the Reagan administration and members of Congress shaped US human rights policy in the late Cold War.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Legislation
ISBN : SRLF:A0004373825

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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."

Author : Paul Slansky
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : MINN:31951P00031489Y

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The Clothes Have No Emperor by Paul Slansky Pdf

A scathingly funny scrapbook of the eighties--loaded with hundreds of outrageous quotes, astounding photographs, bizarre facts, and implausible events.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11354527

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House documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karen Tumulty
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501165207

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The Triumph of Nancy Reagan by Karen Tumulty Pdf

The made-in-Hollywood marriage of Ronald and Nancy Reagan was the partnership that made him president. Nancy understood how to foster his strengths and compensate for his weaknesses-- and made herself a place in history. Tumulty shows how Nancy's confidence developed, and reveals new details surrounding Reagan's tumultuous presidency that shows how Nancy became one of the most influential first ladies in history. -- adapted from jacket

Author : Saladin Ambar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429798184

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Reconsidering American Political Thought by Saladin Ambar Pdf

Filling in the missing spaces left by traditional textbooks on American political thought, Reconsidering American Political Thought uses race, gender, and ethnicity as a lens through which to engage ongoing debates on American values and intellectual traditions. Weaving document-based texts analysis with short excerpts from classics in American literature, this book presents a re-examination of the political and intellectual debates of consequence throughout American history. Purposely beginning the story in 1619, Saladin Ambar reassesses the religious, political, and social histories of the colonial period in American history. Thereafter, Ambar moves through the story of America, with each chapter focusing on a different era in American history up to the present day. Ambar threads together analysis of periods including Thomas Jefferson’s aspiration to create an "Empire of Liberty," the ethnic, racial, and gender-based discourse instrumental in creating a "Yankee" industrial state between 1877 and 1932, and the intellectual, cultural, and social forces that led to the political rise of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama in recent decades. In closing, Ambar assesses the prospects for a new, more invigorated political thought and discourse to reshape and redirect national energies and identity in the Trump presidency. Reconsidering American Political Thought presents a broad and subjective view about critical arguments in American political thought, giving future generations of students and lecturers alike an inclusive understanding of how to teach, research, study, and think about American political thought.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11469613

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Congressional Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Mason,Iwan Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Liberalism
ISBN : 0813064449

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The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered by Robert Mason,Iwan Morgan Pdf

Here, leading scholars-including Hodgson himself-confront the longstanding theory that a liberal consensus shaped the United States after World War II. The essays draw on fresh research to examine how the consensus related to key policy areas, how it was viewed by different factions and groups, what its limitations were, and why it fell apart in the late 1960s.

Author : Jill Nelson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393249415

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Police Brutality: An Anthology by Jill Nelson Pdf

A landmark work by twelve leading critics and community leaders—essential reading for anyone interested in the history of American race relations. Ignited by the infamous shooting of Amadou Diallo, unarmed and innocent, at the hands of New York City police officers, journalist Jill Nelson was moved to assemble this landmark anthology on the topic of police violence and brutality: an indispensable collection of twelve "groundbreaking" (Ebony) essays by a range of contributors—among them academics, historians, social critics, a congressman, and an ex-New York City police detective. This "important and valuable book" (Emerge) places a centuries-old issue in much-needed historical and intellectual context, and underscores the profound influence police brutality has had in shaping the American identity. "[S]hould be read by anyone concerned about ending brutality, and should be required reading in police academies throughout America!"—Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Harvard Law School "Without hysteria or hyperbole, [Nelson] examines the issue of police abuse in literary form."—Emerge "A memorable and useful contribution to an increasingly volatile national dialogue."—Publishers Weekly "[N]ot only timely, but explores and exposes the sickness of this unbalanced, uncivilized Western pastime thoroughly."—Chuck D of Public Enemy, author of Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality

Author : Rick Perlstein
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476793054

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Reaganland by Rick Perlstein Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power. Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics. With the saga’s final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement. In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Ford’s defeat, too old to make another run. His comeback was fueled by an extraordinary confluence: fundamentalist preachers and former segregationists reinventing themselves as militant crusaders against gay rights and feminism; business executives uniting against regulation in an era of economic decline; a cadre of secretive “New Right” organizers deploying state-of-the-art technology, bending political norms to the breaking point—and Reagan’s own unbending optimism, his ability to convey unshakable confidence in America as the world’s “shining city on a hill.” Meanwhile, a civil war broke out in the Democratic party. When President Jimmy Carter called Americans to a new ethic of austerity, Senator Ted Kennedy reacted with horror, challenging him for reelection. Carter’s Oval Office tenure was further imperiled by the Iranian hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, near-catastrophe at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant, aviation accidents, serial killers on the loose, and endless gas lines. Backed by a reenergized conservative Republican base, Reagan ran on the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again”—and prevailed. Reaganland is the story of how that happened, tracing conservatives’ cutthroat strategies to gain power and explaining why they endure four decades later.