In this concise but 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 in 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.
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