false 2555206 2 <b>One of the nation's leading historians offers a groundbreaking and provocative chronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon.</b> The past thirty-five years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s and temporarily reversed in the 1990s, a powerful surge from the right has dominated American politics and government. In <i>The Age of Reagan</i>, Sean Wilentz accounts for how a conservative movement once deemed marginal managed to seize power and hold it, and the momentous consequences that followed. Ronald Reagan has been the single most important political figure of this age. Without Reagan, the conservative movement would have never been as successful as it was. In his political persona as well as his policies, Reagan embodied a new fusion of deeply right-leaning politics with some of the rhetoric and even a bit of the spirit of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. In American political history there have been a few leading figures who, for better or worse, have placed their political stamp indelibly on their times. They include Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt&#151;and Ronald Reagan. A conservative hero in a conservative age, Reagan has been so admired by a minority of historians and so disliked by the others that it has been difficult to evaluate his administration with detachment. Drawing on numerous primary documents that have been neglected or only recently released to the public, as well as on emerging historical work, Wilentz offers invaluable revelations about conservatism's ascendancy and the era in which Reagan was the preeminent political figure. Vivid, authoritative, and illuminating from start to finish, <i>The Age of Reagan</i> raises profound questions and opens passionate debate about our nation's recent past. 2563460 1 5 2008 The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 (American History) total:64|5:13|4:20|3:23|2:4|1:4| 64 226 113 23 3 9 false false Sat May 24 08:53:54 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 16:39:55 -0700 2008
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I've searched my own mind in the course of the present economic crisis to try to recall just when we embraced this culture of greed. I knew there was a fundamental change, just cou...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 20:04:13 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 20:04:48 -0700 2008
I decided to switch gears into United States politics when I re...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Aug 03 15:11:16 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 18:50:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 21:33:25 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 21:45:02 -0700 2008 Chants Democratic in grad school and never did. (Sorry, Robin.) Maybe I will get around to it someday. This encouraged me. Wilentz writes a pretty vivid political history of this period that reads history both backward and forward: in light of the...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 09:32:29 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 10:57:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 15:15:35 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 16:22:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jul 09 10:10:39 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 12:16:58 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 06 17:31:01 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 17:31:38 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jul 27 13:20:55 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 13:38:33 -0700 2008
I could go back to add that this book was pretty good, but Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 19:17:47 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 10:55:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 08:13:38 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 08 13:29:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 20:16:15 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 06:07:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 20 20:37:12 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 08:02:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 10:26:11 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 20:20:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 13:45:03 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 13:47:10 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 11:14:10 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 07:38:44 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 06:00:35 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 06:01:48 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Mon Oct 27 10:40:32 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 21 12:01:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jun 12 05:34:52 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 05:35:42 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2555206