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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Rossinow, Douglas Charles (1966-....)
Titre(s) : The Reagan Era [Texte imprimé] : A History of the 1980s / Doug Rossinow
Publication : New York : Columbia University Press, 2015
Description matérielle : xii, 378 pages ; 24 cm
Comprend : The time is now ; The agenda ; Victory on Capitol Hill ; An aggressive foreign
policy ; The purge ; 1983: the world at the brink ; The high eighties ; Days of
fear ; The winner ; Arms and the man ; The crisis ; Strength through peace ;
The election of Willie Horton ; The free world ; Top of the heap.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes
the full measure of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers
in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in
the 1980s achieved impressive success in their efforts to transform American government,
politics, and society, ushering in the political and social system Americans inhabit
today. Rossinow links current trends in economic inequality to the policies and social
developments of the Reagan era. He reckons with the racial politics of Reaganism and
its debt to the backlash generated by the civil rights movement, as well as Reaganism's
entanglement with the politics of crime and the rise of mass incarceration. Rossinow
narrates the conflicts that rocked U.S. foreign policy toward Central America, and
he explains the role of the recession during the early 1980s in the decline of manufacturing
and the growth of a service economy. From the widening gender gap to the triumph of
yuppies and rap music, from Reagan's tax cuts and military buildup to the celebrity
of Michael Jackson and Madonna, from the era's Wall Street scandals to the successes
of Bill Gates and Sam Walton, from the first "war on terror" to the end of the Cold
War and the brink of America's first war with Iraq, this history, lively and readable
yet sober and unsparing, gives readers vital perspective on a decade that dramatically
altered the American landscape."
Sujet(s) : Reagan, Ronald (1911-2004)
Conditions sociales -- États-Unis -- 1980-....
Conditions économiques -- États-Unis -- 1981-2001
Relations extérieures -- États-Unis -- 1981-1989
Politique et gouvernement -- États-Unis -- 1881-1885
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780231169882 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0231169884 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780231538657 (erroné) (electronic)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb439079040
Notice n° :
FRBNF43907904
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