Ronald Reagan and the 1980s
Perceptions, Policies, Legacies
Editors: Hudson, C., Davies, G. (Eds.)
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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.
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CHERYL HUDSON is an Associate Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK.
GARETH DAVIES is University Lecturer in American History at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK. - Reviews
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"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
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction Reagan and the 1980s
Pages 1-15
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Ronald Reagan: Communicating the America Within
Pages 19-28
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Only an Actor: Memories of a Reagan Biopic
Pages 29-40
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“Just Say No”: Drug Abuse Policy in the Reagan Administration
Pages 41-56
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Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War
Pages 57-78
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Ronald Reagan and the 1980s
- Book Subtitle
- Perceptions, Policies, Legacies
- Editors
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- C. Hudson
- G. Davies
- Series Title
- Studies of the Americas
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-61619-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230616196
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-60302-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-37147-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 268
- Topics