The Age of Reagan
by Wilentz, SeanEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-02-08
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary
The past thirty-five years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s and temporarily reversed in the 1990s, a powerful surge from the right dominated American politics and government from 1974 to 2008. In The Age of Reagan, Sean Wilentz, one of our nation's leading historians, accounts for how a conservative movement once deemed marginal managed to seize power and hold it, and describes the momentous consequences that followed.Vivid, authoritative, and illuminating from start to finish, The Age of Reagan is a groundbreaking chronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon.
Author Biography
Sean Wilentz is the author of The Rise of American Democracy, which won the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Wilentz teaches American history at Princeton University. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Paperback Edition | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Prologue: July 4, 1976 | p. 14 |
| Memories of the Ford Administration | p. 26 |
| Détente and Its Discontents | p. 48 |
| Jimmy Carter and the Agonies of Anti-Politics | p. 73 |
| Human Rights and Democratic Collapse | p. 99 |
| New Morning | p. 127 |
| Confronting the Evil Empire | p. 151 |
| "Call It Mysticism If You Will" | p. 176 |
| "We Have an Undercover Thing": The Iran-Contra Affair | p. 209 |
| "Another Time, Another Era" | p. 245 |
| Reaganism and Realism | p. 288 |
| The Politics of Clintonism | p. 323 |
| Clinton's Comeback | p. 355 |
| Animosities and Interest: The Impeachment of Clinton | p. 382 |
| Irreparable Harm: The Election of 2000 | p. 408 |
| Epilogue: October 13, 2001 | p. 432 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 459 |
| Notes | p. 461 |
| Selected Sources and Readings | p. 515 |
| Index | p. 545 |
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