Morning in America : how Ronald Reagan invented the 1980s /
Gil Troy.
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)2005.
- 1 online resource (446 pages)
- Politics and society in twentieth-century America .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Ronald Reagan's defining vision for the 1980s--and America -- 1980: Cleveland; "There you go again!" Defeating defeatism--and Jimmy Carter -- 1981: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; The Ronald Reagan show, the new dynasty, and David Stockman's Reaganomics -- 1982: Hill Street; The other America's blues -- 1983: Beaufort, South Carolina; The big chill and the great reconciliation: where the sixties meet the eighties -- 1984: Los Angeles; The wizard of America's Id chooses patriotism over politics -- 1985: Brooklyn, New York; Bill Cosby's multicultural America meets Ronald Reagan's celebrity presidency -- 1986: Wall Street; The wild, wild east and the Reagan money culture -- 1987: Mourning in America; Fiascos at home and abroad -- 1988: Stanford; The culture wars: closing and opening the American mind -- 1989: Kennebunkport, Maine; The Bush restoration: kinder, gentler, but still Reaganite -- 1990: Boston; First night, new decade: why so blue?
Chronicles the political events of the 1980s, offering a year-by-year account of the economic and cultural changes that took place during Ronald Reagan's two terms in the White House.