LEADER 03494nam 22005891 450 001 9910963361403321 005 20200506135228.0 010 $a9780857738394 010 $a0857738399 010 $a9780755620135 010 $a0755620135 010 $a9780857726988 010 $a0857726986 024 7 $a10.5040/9780755620135 035 $a(CKB)3710000000880199 035 $a(OCoLC)979242383 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09265371 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9780755620135BC 035 $a(Perlego)883630 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000880199 100 $a20200603d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe cultural left and the Reagan era $eU.S. protest and Central American Revolution /$fby Nick Witham 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon :$cI.B. Tauris,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (256 pages) 225 1 $aLibrary of modern American history 311 08$a9781784531966 311 08$a1784531960 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- Introduction: Rethinking the Cultural Left in the Reagan Era Section I : Intellectual Culture -- 1. Walter LaFeber, Gabriel Kolko and the Activist History of American Empire -- 2. Verso Books and Transnational Solidarity Section II : Press Culture -- 3. The Nation and Nicaragua -- 4. The Guardian, the Solidarity Movement and El Salvador Section III -- 5. Anti-Interventionist Cinema at Hollywood's Margins -- 6. International Feminism, Documentary Filmmaking and Central American Revolutionary Struggle -- Conclusion ; Rememebering Central America Activism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"The Reagan era is usually seen as an era of unheralded prosperity, and as a high-watermark of Republican success. President Ronald Reagan's belief in "Reaganomics", his media-friendly sound-bites and "can do" personality have come to define the era. However, this was also a time of domestic protest and unrest. Under Reagan the US was directly involved in the revolutions which were sweeping the Central Americas- El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala -and in Nicaragua Reagan armed the Contras who fought the Sandinistas. This book seeks to show how the left within the US reacted and protested against these events. The Nation, Verso Books and the Guardian exploded in popularity, riding high on the back of popular anti-interventionist sentiment in America, while the film-maker Oliver Stone led a group of directors making films with a radical left-wing message. The author shows how the1980s in America were a formative cultural period for the anti-Reaganites as well as the Reaganites, and in doing so charts a new history."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aLibrary of modern American history. 606 $aLiberalism$zUnited States 606 $aProtest movements$zUnited States 606 $aRight and left (Political science)$zUnited States 606 $aBiography: historical, political & military$2BIC 615 0$aLiberalism 615 0$aProtest movements 615 0$aRight and left (Political science) 615 7$aBiography: historical, political & military. 700 $aWitham$b Nick$01796957 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963361403321 996 $aThe cultural left and the Reagan era$94338969 997 $aUNINA