The other eighties : a secret history of America in the age of Reagan /
Martin, Bradford D.,1966-
New York : Hill and Wang,
2011.
Unlike the civil-rights- and Vietnam-era protesters, activists of the 1980s often found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve the hard-won victories of the previous decades. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in effecting change in areas from professional life to popular culture, while beating back an even more forceful political shift to the right. --
Martin paints an indelible portrait of these and other influential but often overlooked movements: from on-the-ground efforts to constrain the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, to mock shanties constructed on college campuses to shed light on corporate Americas role in supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa. He gives us a clearer, richer perspective on a turbulent decade in American life. --Book Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-225) and index.
Unlike the civil-rights- and Vietnam-era protesters, activists of the 1980s often found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve the hard-won victories of the previous decades. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in effecting change in areas from professional life to popular culture, while beating back an even more forceful political shift to the right. --
Martin paints an indelible portrait of these and other influential but often overlooked movements: from on-the-ground efforts to constrain the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, to mock shanties constructed on college campuses to shed light on corporate Americas role in supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa. He gives us a clearer, richer perspective on a turbulent decade in American life. --Book Jacket.
Reagan, Ronald