The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008The 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. |
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Jimmy Carter and the Agonies of AntiPolitics | 73 |
Human Rights and Democratic Collapse | 99 |
New Morning | 127 |
Confronting the Evil Empire | 151 |
Another Time Another Era | 245 |
Reaganism and Realism | 288 |
The Politics of Clintonism | 323 |
Clintons Comeback | 355 |
The Impeachment of Clinton | 382 |
The Election of 2000 | 408 |
October 13 2001 432 | 430 |
Selected Sources and Readings | 515 |
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