04432nam 22006495 450 991079050870332120210330020510.00-691-09645-71-4008-4930-610.1515/9781400849307(CKB)2550000001131539(EBL)1422516(DE-B1597)447957(OCoLC)1013960954(OCoLC)922665736(DE-B1597)9781400849307(MiAaPQ)EBC1422516(EXLCZ)99255000000113153920190708d2013 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMorning in America How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's /Gil TroyCourse BookPrinceton, NJ :Princeton University Press,[2013]©20051 online resource (447 p.)Politics and Society in Modern America ;93Description based upon print version of record.0-691-13060-4 1-299-99997-2 Front matter --Contents --Introduction --1980 Cleveland --1981 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue --1982 Hill Street --1983 Beaufort, South Carolina --1984 Los Angeles --1985 Brooklyn, New York --1986 Wall Street --1987 Mourning in America --1988 Stanford --1989 Kennebunkport, Maine --1990 Boston --A Note on Method and Sources --A Guide to Abbreviations in Notes --Notes --Acknowledgments --IndexDid America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often "yes." In Morning in America, Gil Troy argues that the Great Communicator was also the Great Conciliator. His pioneering and lively reassessment of Ronald Reagan's legacy takes us through the 1980's in ten year-by-year chapters, integrating the story of the Reagan presidency with stories of the decade's cultural icons and watershed moments-from personalities to popular television shows. One such watershed moment was the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. With the trauma of Vietnam fading, the triumph of America's 1983 invasion of tiny Grenada still fresh, and a reviving economy, Americans geared up for a festival of international harmony that-spurred on by an entertainment-focused news media, corporate sponsors, and the President himself-became a celebration of the good old U.S.A. At the Games' opening, Reagan presided over a thousand-voice choir, a 750-member marching band, and a 90,000-strong teary-eyed audience singing "America the Beautiful!" while waving thousands of flags. Reagan emerges more as happy warrior than angry ideologue, as a big-picture man better at setting America's mood than implementing his program. With a vigorous Democratic opposition, Reagan's own affability, and other limiting factors, the eighties were less counterrevolutionary than many believe. Many sixties' innovations went mainstream, from civil rights to feminism. Reagan fostered a political culture centered on individualism and consumption-finding common ground between the right and the left. Written with verve, Morning in America is both a major new look at one of America's most influential modern-day presidents and the definitive story of a decade that continues to shape our times.Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century AmericaNineteen eightiesPolitics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryReagan, Ronald -- InfluenceUnited States -- Civilization -- 1970-United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-Nineteen eighties.Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.Reagan, Ronald -- Influence.United States -- Civilization -- 1970-.United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989.United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-.973.927/092973.927092Troy Gil1467032DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910790508703321Morning in America3677670UNINA