by Cheryl Hudson (Editor), Cheryl Hudson (Editor), Gareth Bryn Davies (Editor)
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.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 284
Edition: 2008
Publisher: AIAA
Published: 12 Dec 2008
ISBN 10: 0230603025
ISBN 13: 9780230603028
Book Overview: J D ABERBACH N BJERRE-POULSEN P BOURNE S KNOTT R MASON J MATLOCK I MORGAN D RATHER D SANDBROOK G TROY D WILLIAMS
The essays in this splendid collection offer a nuanced, up-to-date understanding not only of Ronald Reagan but also of larger social, economic, and political trends of the 1980s - and of their legacies. - James T. Patterson, author of Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore