Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 - Paperback

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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 - Paperback

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 - Paperback

by Rick Perlstein
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

From the bestselling author of Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge, and Before the Storm comes the dramatic conclusion of how modern conservatism took control of American political power.

Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in American political history. With the saga's final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement.

In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Ford's defeat, too old to make another run. His comeback was fueled by an extraordinary confluence: fundamentalist preachers and former segregationists reinventing themselves as militant crusaders against gay rights and feminism; business executives uniting against regulation in an era of economic decline; a cadre of secretive "New Right" organizers deploying state-of-the-art technology, bending political norms to the breaking point--and Reagan's own unbending optimism, his ability to convey unshakable confidence in America as the world's "shining city on a hill."

Meanwhile, a civil war broke out in the Democratic party. When President Jimmy Carter called Americans to a new ethic of austerity, Senator Ted Kennedy reacted with horror, challenging him for reelection. Carter's Oval Office tenure was further imperiled by the Iranian hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, near-catastrophe at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant, aviation accidents, serial killers on the loose, and endless gas lines.

Backed by a reenergized conservative Republican base, Reagan ran on the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again"--and prevailed. Reaganland is the story of how that happened, tracing conservatives' cutthroat strategies to gain power and explaining why they endure four decades later.
ISBN9781476793061
Author Rick Perlstein
PublisherSimon & Schuster
GenreBiography, News & politics, and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages1120
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 - Paperback

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About Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein is the bestselling author of Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. His reviews, reporting, and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Observer, The New Republic, The Washington Post, London Review of Books, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, and The New Yorker. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for independent scholars. He lives in Chicago.

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