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03068aam a2200349 i 4500 001 3D5C7A6E05F411E6897B2DA8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160419010056 008 140328s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014011193 020 $a 0231169884 020 $a 9780231169882 035 $a (OCoLC)875404164 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d TOH $d HHO $d VP@ $d BUR $d QGK $d OCLCQ $d CHVBK $d VP@ $d NLGGC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Rossinow, Douglas C. $q (Douglas Charles), $e author. 245 14 $a The Reagan era : $b a history of the 1980s / $c Doug Rossinow. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xii, 378 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Reagan, Ronald. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1981-1989. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1981-1989. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213022907.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180104065411.0 952 $l PWAX296 $d 20160419012602.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3D5C7A6E05F411E6897B2DA8DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b UIRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search