Right Turn : America Life in the Reagan-Bush Era, 1980-1992, Paperback by Sch...
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Right Turn : America Life in the Reagan-Bush Era, 1980-1992, Paperback by Sch.... An entire generation has passed since the election that installed Ronald Reagan into the White House. This brisk narrative fills a significant gap in the literature on recent. Right Turn : America Life in the Reagan-Bush Era, 1, Paperback by Schaller, Michael, ISBN 0195172574, ISBN-13 9780195172577, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US An entire generation has passed since the election that installed Ronald Reagan into the White House. This brisk narrative fills a significant gap in the literature on recent . history, making use of diverse memoir material, journalistic accounts, biographies, and specialized policystudies, including those produced recently. Rather than focusing solely on the Reagan and Bush administrations or presidencies, Right Turn addresses the various policy, cultural, social, economic, and technological issues that made the 1980s and early 1990s such an interesting product of the events that proceeded it--and such a vital forcein American life that followed. Beginning in the late 1970s and concluding in the early 1990s, this book examines how conservative ideas and organizations reemerged from the shadows of the Great Depression and the New Deal. It describes national politics and public policies implemented byconservative Republicans, the dramatic climax of the Cold War, and the ways in which economic, legal, social, and cultural developments affected ordinary Americans in all their diversity. Featuring numerous photographs throughout and detailed guides to specialized readings at the end of eachchapter, Right Turn is ideal for history and political science courses that cover post-1945 America as well as the 1980s and 1990s.
