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Author : United States. Panel on the Quality of American Life
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Government publications
ISBN : MINN:31951003059227M
Author : United States. President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Quality of life
ISBN : OCLC:956393562
Author : United States. Panel on the Quality of American Life
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Quality of life
ISBN : UIUC:30112003644108
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641891463
Author : United States. President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015004277870
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Government publications
ISBN : OSU:32435055048433
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1981-07
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112063912528
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Taxation
ISBN : PURD:32754078866476
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Government publications
ISBN : IND:30000130173556
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000052066665
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015065493770
Author : Bradford Martin
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 142995342X
In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and ‘70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look reveals that a sizable swath of Americans strongly disapproved of Reagan's policies throughout his presidency. With a weakened Democratic Party scurrying for the political center, many expressed their dissatisfaction outside electoral politics. Unlike the civil rights and Vietnam era protesters, activists of the 1980s often found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve the hard-won victories of the previous era. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in effecting change in areas from professional life to popular culture, while beating back an even more forceful political shift to the right. Martin paints an indelible portrait of these and other influential, but often overlooked, movements: from on-the-ground efforts to constrain the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, to mock shanties constructed on college campuses to shed light on corporate America's role in supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa. The result is a clearer, richer perspective on a turbulent decade in American life.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982-08
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : UCBK:C030267004
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Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198039727
Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and the spirit of conservative reaction--a spirit that remains ascendant today? Drawing on a wide array of sources--including tabloid journalism, popular fiction, movies, and television shows--Philip Jenkins argues that a remarkable confluence of panics, scares, and a few genuine threats created a climate of fear that led to the conservative reaction. He identifies 1975 to 1986 as the watershed years. During this time, he says, there was a sharp increase in perceived threats to our security at home and abroad. At home, America seemed to be threatened by monstrous criminals--serial killers, child abusers, Satanic cults, and predatory drug dealers, to name just a few. On the international scene, we were confronted by the Soviet Union and its evil empire, by OPEC with its stranglehold on global oil, by the Ayatollahs who made hostages of our diplomats in Iran. Increasingly, these dangers began to be described in terms of moral evil. Rejecting the radicalism of the '60s, which many saw as the source of the crisis, Americans adopted a more pessimistic interpretation of human behavior, which harked back to much older themes in American culture. This simpler but darker vision ultimately brought us Ronald Reagan and the ascendancy of the political Right, which more than two decades later shows no sign of loosening its grip. Writing in his usual crisp and witty prose, Jenkins offers a truly original and persuasive account of a period that continues to fascinate the American public. It is bound to captivate anyone who lived through this period, as well as all those who want to understand the forces that transformed--and continue to define--the American political landscape.
Author : John Ehrman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300115826
John Ehrman offers analysis of the transformation in American politics & society that marked the years of the Reagan presidency during the 1980s. He considers the fundamental shifts in American attitudes & examines the way Reagan built a right wing consensus around key policies.