LEADER 04432nam 22006495 450 001 9910790508703321 005 20210330020510.0 010 $a0-691-09645-7 010 $a1-4008-4930-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400849307 035 $a(CKB)2550000001131539 035 $a(EBL)1422516 035 $a(DE-B1597)447957 035 $a(OCoLC)1013960954 035 $a(OCoLC)922665736 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400849307 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1422516 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001131539 100 $a20190708d2013 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMorning in America $eHow Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's /$fGil Troy 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (447 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Society in Modern America ;$v93 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13060-4 311 $a1-299-99997-2 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1980 Cleveland --$t1981 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue --$t1982 Hill Street --$t1983 Beaufort, South Carolina --$t1984 Los Angeles --$t1985 Brooklyn, New York --$t1986 Wall Street --$t1987 Mourning in America --$t1988 Stanford --$t1989 Kennebunkport, Maine --$t1990 Boston --$tA Note on Method and Sources --$tA Guide to Abbreviations in Notes --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aDid America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often "yes." In Morning in America, Gil Troy argues that the Great Communicator was also the Great Conciliator. His pioneering and lively reassessment of Ronald Reagan's legacy takes us through the 1980's in ten year-by-year chapters, integrating the story of the Reagan presidency with stories of the decade's cultural icons and watershed moments-from personalities to popular television shows. One such watershed moment was the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. With the trauma of Vietnam fading, the triumph of America's 1983 invasion of tiny Grenada still fresh, and a reviving economy, Americans geared up for a festival of international harmony that-spurred on by an entertainment-focused news media, corporate sponsors, and the President himself-became a celebration of the good old U.S.A. At the Games' opening, Reagan presided over a thousand-voice choir, a 750-member marching band, and a 90,000-strong teary-eyed audience singing "America the Beautiful!" while waving thousands of flags. Reagan emerges more as happy warrior than angry ideologue, as a big-picture man better at setting America's mood than implementing his program. With a vigorous Democratic opposition, Reagan's own affability, and other limiting factors, the eighties were less counterrevolutionary than many believe. Many sixties' innovations went mainstream, from civil rights to feminism. Reagan fostered a political culture centered on individualism and consumption-finding common ground between the right and the left. Written with verve, Morning in America is both a major new look at one of America's most influential modern-day presidents and the definitive story of a decade that continues to shape our times. 410 0$aPolitics and Society in Twentieth-Century America 606 $aNineteen eighties 606 $aPolitics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century 606 $aReagan, Ronald -- Influence 606 $aUnited States -- Civilization -- 1970- 606 $aUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989 606 $aUnited States -- Social conditions -- 1980- 615 4$aNineteen eighties. 615 4$aPolitics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 615 4$aReagan, Ronald -- Influence. 615 4$aUnited States -- Civilization -- 1970-. 615 4$aUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989. 615 4$aUnited States -- Social conditions -- 1980-. 676 $a973.927/092 676 $a973.927092 700 $aTroy$b Gil$01467032 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790508703321 996 $aMorning in America$93677670 997 $aUNINA