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Ronald Reagan's America [2 Volumes] by Eric J. Schmertz,Natalie Datlof,Alexej Ugrinsky Pdf
Supporters of the Reagan presidency claim that the Reagan Revolution defeated inflation, reduced the role of government, rehabilitated the authority of the states and local government, and established a sensible balance between industrial progress and environmental protection. Opponents assert that these policies increased the national debt by more than $1 trillion, gutted social programs, and created a trickle-down economy that increased unemployment, insecurity, homelessness, and the percentage of Americans living at or below the poverty level. Both positions are argued by such participants as Edwin Meese III, James G. Watt, and Lyn Nofzinger, and such commentators and scholars as Mike Wallace, Roy Innis, and Kenneth W. Thompson. Students of the era as well as of the presidency and the evolution of domestic political and social affairs will find provocative and insightful observations in this volume.
The Encyclopedia of President Ronald Reagan by N. R. Mitgang,Malcolm Kushner Pdf
Volume Two of Four The Encyclopedia of President Ronald ReaganThe single most comprehensive source of information on President Ronald Reagan.Perfect for every school and library, and great for Reagan enthusiasts.Equivalent to over 1,100 pages. The Encyclopedia of President Ronald Reagan includes: TABLE OF CONTENTS (appears in all volumes) INTRODUCTION (appears in all volumes) ABOUT THE AUTHORS: (appears in all volumes) THE REAGAN PRESIDENCY: (appears in all volumes)1. ECONOMIC POLICY2. DOMESTIC AFFAIRS3. FOREIGN POLICY4. THE REAGAN LEGACY CHRONOLOGICAL SKETCH OF RONALD REAGAN (appears in all volumes) FAMOUS QUOTES (by President Reagan) ABOUT: (appears in volume one)1. America2. Americans3. Democracy4. Freedom5. Freedom of Speech6. Liberty7. Politics THE HUMOR THAT SHAPED AMERICA (appears in volume one) President Ronald Reagan's best witticisms and humor, now preserved for posterity: nearly every quip, joke and anecdote told by the President during his two terms. THE HUMOR THAT SHAPED AMERICA shows how President Reagan used humor to influence American history. It's a virtual clinic on how to use humor as a communication tool. Read the famous lines used by President Reagan to poke fun at everything from the Washington bureaucracy, the Soviet Union, Democrats and Tip O'Neill, taxes, the economy, and himself. Ronald Reagan once said, "Sometimes we all must think when we look at ourselves -- the Lord must have a sense of humor." Topics include:1. COMMUNICATION2. BIG GOVERNMENT3. CHANGING GOVERNMENT TAKES TIME4. RELIGION - Part One5. COMMUNISM6. WASHINGTON7. DEMOCRATS8. THE PRESIDENT'S AGE9. EDUCATION10. THE IRISH11. FISHING AND FARMING12. HOLLYWOOD FRIENDS13. OPTIMISM14. HUMAN NATURE15. THE PRESS16. SPACE17. AGE18. THE MILITARY19. REAGAN CRITICS20. RELIGION - Part Two21. ANIMAL TALES22. WASHINGTON: GOTTA LOVE IT23. ECONOMISTS AND STATISTICIANS24. REAGANISMS25. SPORTS26. SOVIET UNION MAJOR SPEECHES (part one appears in volume two)(part two appears in volume three)The full text of 99 speeches -- as suggested by The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. PHOTOGRAPHS 350 photos with captions -- as suggested by The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
American Presidents Volume 1: Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - 2 Books in 1! by Anna Revell Pdf
AMERICAN PRESIDENTS VOLUME 1: Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - 2 Books in 1!Featuring...Richard NixonRonald Reagan 2 Great Biographies In 1! Richard Nixon This is the story of an ambitious, scrappy kid overcoming humble origins to somehow become The Most Powerful Man in the World at a time when the United States was at the top of the global totem pole. This is the story of a man who was an advocate for peace and first to make major breakthroughs to pierce the Iron Curtain of a divided world. The story of a man who steered America at a time of heady, history-making change... who has since been largely reduced to a cartoon caricature, a Halloween mask, and trivia answer with a title no one wants to ever hold: The Only U.S. President Ever to Resign from Office. This is the story of former U.S. President Richard Nixon beyond Watergate. This is Richard Nixon, revealed, a sensation even without the event that pushed him out of office and that he would always be known for. This is Nixon gate - the scandal! the revelation! that there is more to a man than the biggest of his mistakes. Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan, whether one agreed with his politics or not, whether one believed he had achieved the objectives of the vision he espoused or not - was still someone who pulled himself up from incarnation to incarnation, to reach impossible dreams both Hollywood and political. He still ushered in an end to the Cold War, with the American way of life squarely on top. He still had a winning vision that remains resonant to many in the country he loved. He still sits upon the bar that most Republican politicians hope to attain and surpass. He still has a voice and input in the politics of our day.He still has wide-ranging impacts for American political life, long after his death. He is still a lightning rod for dreams.It would be an injustice not to look at him with a critical eye, because if he was just a man - with real flaws, real difficulties, and one who had to make real, hard decisions -then it would have made his achievements all the greater. To simply live with the romanticized image and not examine the reality of Ronald Reagan would also be unjust to his message of individual ability and potential for greatness. Because if we detach him from our flawed ordinariness, then how can we truly find and replicate the best parts of him in ourselves? How can we live by that image he has championed, of Americans as free individuals with self-determination and an ability to make his country truly great? And so let us pull back the curtains. Let us go behind the scenes. Let us de-mystify Ronald Reagan and unpack the romance he has spun around American political life and inso doing - create the possibility of finding him in ourselves.
#1 New York Times Bestseller “Reading these diaries, Americans will find it easier to understand how Reagan did what he did for so long . . . They paint a portrait of a president who was engaged by his job and had a healthy perspective on power.” —Jon Meacham, Newsweek During his two terms as the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine occurrences of his presidency. To read these diaries—now compiled into one volume by noted historian Douglas Brinkley and filled with Reagan’s trademark wit, sharp intelligence, and humor—is to gain a unique understanding of one of our nation’s most fascinating leaders.
In politics, the man who takes the highest spot after a landslide is not standing on solid ground. In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how, from 1963 to 1966, these two men—the same age, and driven by the same heroic ambitions—changed American politics forever. The liberal and the conservative. The deal-making arm twister and the cool communicator. The Texas rancher and the Hollywood star. Opposites in politics and style, Johnson and Reagan shared a defining impulse: to set forth a grand story of America, a story in which he could be the hero. In the tumultuous days after the Kennedy assassination, Johnson and Reagan each, in turn, seized the chance to offer the country a new vision for the future. Bringing to life their vivid personalities and the anxious mood of America in a radically transformative time, Darman shows how, in promising the impossible, Johnson and Reagan jointly dismantled the long American tradition of consensus politics and ushered in a new era of fracture. History comes to life in Darman’s vivid, fly-on-the wall storytelling. Even as Johnson publicly revels in his triumphs, we see him grow obsessed with dark forces he believes are out to destroy him, while his wife, Lady Bird, urges her husband to put aside his paranoia and see the world as it really is. And as the war in Vietnam threatens to overtake his presidency, we witness Johnson desperately struggling to compensate with ever more extravagant promises for his Great Society. On the other side of the country, Ronald Reagan, a fading actor years removed from his Hollywood glory, gradually turns toward a new career in California politics. We watch him delivering speeches to crowds who are desperate for a new leader. And we see him wielding his well-honed instinct for timing, waiting for Johnson’s majestic promises to prove empty before he steps back into the spotlight, on his long journey toward the presidency. From Johnson’s election in 1964, the greatest popular-vote landslide in American history, to the pivotal 1966 midterms, when Reagan burst forth onto the national stage, Landslide brings alive a country transformed—by riots, protests, the rise of television, the shattering of consensus—and the two towering personalities whose choices in those moments would reverberate through the country for decades to come. Praise for Landslide “Richly detailed . . . Landslide is a vivid retelling of a tumultuous three years in American history, and Mr. Darman captures in full the personalities and motives of two of the twentieth century’s most consequential politicians.”—The New York Times “Novel and even surprising . . . Landslide deftly reminds readers that Johnson and Reagan both trafficked in grandiose oratory and promoted utopian visions at odds with the social complexity of modern America.”—The Washington Post “Riveting . . . Darman portrays [Johnson and Reagan] as polar opposites of political attraction. . . . Animated by the artful insight that they were men of disappointment headed toward an appointment with history . . . A tale about myths and a nation that believed them, about a world of a half century ago now gone forever.”—The Boston Globe “Alert to the subtleties of politics and political history, Darman, a former correspondent for Newsweek, nimbly explores delusion and self-delusion at the highest levels.”—The New York Times Book Review
Author : Jane Dailey Publisher : University of Chicago Press Page : 479 pages File Size : 53,7 Mb Release : 2018-01-04 Category : History ISBN : 9780226300962
Building the American Republic, Volume 2 by Jane Dailey Pdf
Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse readership by addressing what we all share: membership in a democratic republic, with joint claims on its self-governing tradition. It will be one of the first peer-reviewed American history textbooks to be offered completely free in digital form. Visit buildingtheamericanrepublic.org for more information. The American nation came apart in a violent civil war less than a century after ratification of the Constitution. When it was reborn five years later, both the republic and its Constitution were transformed. Volume 2 opens as America struggles to regain its footing, reeling from a presidential assassination and facing massive economic growth, rapid demographic change, and combustive politics. The next century and a half saw the United States enter and then dominate the world stage, even as the country struggled to live up to its own principles of liberty, justice, and equality. Volume 2 of Building the American Republic takes the reader from the Gilded Age to the present, as the nation becomes an imperial power, rethinks the Constitution, witnesses the rise of powerful new technologies, and navigates an always-shifting cultural landscape shaped by an increasingly diverse population. Ending with the 2016 election, this volume provides a needed reminder that the future of the American republic depends on a citizenry that understands—and can learn from—its history.
Author : Harry L. Watson,Jane Dailey Publisher : University of Chicago Press Page : 479 pages File Size : 43,7 Mb Release : 2018-01-18 Category : History ISBN : 9780226300825
Building the American Republic, Volume 2 by Harry L. Watson,Jane Dailey Pdf
"Building the American Republic tells the story of United States with remarkable grace and skill, its fast moving narrative making the nation's struggles and accomplishments new and compelling. Weaving together stories of abroad range of Americans. Volume 1 starts at sea and ends on the field. Beginning with the earliest Americans and the arrival of strangers on the eastern shore, it then moves through colonial society to the fight for independence and the construction of a federal republic. Vol 2 opens as America struggles to regain its footing, reeling from a presidential assassination and facing massive economic growth, rapid demographic change, and combustive politics.
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 by Gene Andrew Jarrett Pdf
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium. Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studies Selects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professors Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kind This second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the present The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings.
The National Security Doctrines of the American Presidency by Lamont C. Colucci Pdf
This two-volume set provides a chronological view of the foreign policy/national security doctrines of key American presidents from Washington to Obama, framed by commentary on the historical context for each, discussions of major themes, and examinations of the lasting impact of these policies. The National Security Doctrines of the American Presidency: How They Shape our Present and Future provides a chronological examination of the foreign policy and national security doctrines of key American presidents from Washington to Obama, covering everything from our missionary zeal and our pursuit of open navigation of the seas, to our involvement in the ongoing political and military conflicts in the Middle East. It addresses the multiple sources behind the doctrines: real, rhetorical, and ideological. Arranged chronologically, each chapter offers commentary on the historical evolution of these doctrines, identifies the major themes, and highlights unique revelations. Ideal for universities, colleges, libraries, academics, classroom teachers, policy makers, and the educated electorate, this two-volume set represents a compendium of national security doctrines that explains how these first doctrines have constrained, restrained, and guided every American president regardless of party, providing comprehensive information that cannot be found in any other single source. Further, the work presents the reader with examples and explanations of precisely how these doctrines from long ago as well as those from recent history directly affect our present and future.
Author : Svetlana Savranskaya,Thomas S. Blanton Publisher : Central European University Press Page : 1080 pages File Size : 43,6 Mb Release : 2016-11-01 Category : History ISBN : 9789633861714
The Last Superpower Summits by Svetlana Savranskaya,Thomas S. Blanton Pdf
This book publishes for the first time in print every word the American and Soviet leaders – Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George H.W. Bush – said to each other in their superpower summits from 1985 to 1991. Obtained by the authors through the Freedom of Information Act in the U.S., from the Gorbachev Foundation and the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and from the personal donation of Anatoly Chernyaev, these previously Top Secret verbatim transcripts combine with key declassified preparatory and after-action documents from both sides to create a unique interactive documentary record of these historic highest-level talks – the conversations that ended the Cold War. The summits fueled a process of learning on both sides, as the authors argue in contextual essays on each summit and detailed headnotes on each document. Geneva 1985 and Reykjavik 1986 reduced Moscow's sense of threat and unleashed Reagan's inner abolitionist. Malta 1989 and Washington 1990 helped dampen any superpower sparks that might have flown in a time of revolutionary change in Eastern Europe, set off by Gorbachev and by Eastern Europeans (Solidarity, dissidents, reform Communists). The high level and scope of the dialogue between these world leaders was unprecedented, and is likely never to be repeated.
Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions [2 volumes] by Daniel Leab Pdf
A riveting look at the financial cycles in American economic history from colonial times to the present day, with an eye on the similarities and differences between past and present conditions as analyzed by leading economic historians. The United States has emerged from the financial chaos of its last economic crisis, yet still very few sources place the events of the modern era within the context of financial downturns of the past. An examination of the trends and patterns of previous depressions and recessions may allow us to recognize—and avoid—the behaviors and practices that prolonged the fiscal problems of previous generations. This thought-provoking encyclopedia presents an overview of notable economic events, their causes and cures, and their social and political impact on the nation. Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions offers a comprehensive survey on the topic from the years 1783 to 1789 under the Articles of Confederation through the panics of the 19th century and the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of 2008. Written in an accessible, engaging style, the volumes contain 14 detailed essays covering each economic event and 140 entries covering various related individuals, issues, court cases, legislation, and significant events. Primary source documents, including the Specie Circular, the Embargo Act, and the National Labor Relations Act, provide relevancy to the real world and a context for key events.
Keen's Latin American Civilization, Volume 2 by Robert M. Buffington Pdf
The tenth edition of Keen's Latin American Civilization inaugurates a new era in the history of this classic anthology by dividing it into two volumes. This second volume retains most of the modern period sources from the ninth edition but with some significant additions including a new set of images and a wide range of new sources that reflect the latest events and trends in contemporary Latin America. The 75 excerpts in volume two provide foundational and often riveting first-hand accounts of life in modern Latin America. Concise introductions for chapters and excerpts provide essential context for understanding the primary sources.
The definitive biography of Ronald Reagan, featuring never-before-seen documents and sources from the Reagan Presidential Library. New York Times #1 bestselling author Larry Schweikart, armed with previously unseen sources from Ronald Reagan’s Presidential Library, uncovers the most important president of the 20th century and details the life and policies of a man who still remains dear to the hearts of Americans. From his time as a lifeguard in Illinois to a sports announcer to a rising actor to a labor union leader, then finally governor of California in the tumultuous 1960s and ultimately President, Reagan’s life is told as it has never been before.
100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America [2 volumes] by Mary Cross Pdf
To what extent does a person's own success result in social transformation? This book offers 100 answers, providing thought-provoking examples of how American culture was shaped within a crucial time period by individuals whose lives and ideas were major agents of change. 100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America provides a two-volume encyclopedia of the individuals whose contributions to society made the 20th century what it was. Comprising contributions from 20 academics and experts in their field, the thought-provoking essays examine the men and women who have shaped the modern American cultural experience—change agents who defined their time period as a result of their talent, imagination, and enterprise. Organized chronologically by the subjects' birthdates, the essays are written to be accessible to the general reader yet provide in-depth information for scholars, ensuring that the work will appeal to many audiences.