Ronald Reagan and the 1980s
Subtitle: perceptions, policies, legacies
By: edited by Cheryl Hudson and Gareth Davies.
Contributors: Hudson, Cheryl.; Davies, Gareth, 1965-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Studies of the Americas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780230603028
Subjects: Reagan, Ronald; Reagan, Ronald -- Political and social views; Reagan, Ronald -- Influence; Presidents -- United States -- Biography; Nineteen eighties; United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Ronald Reagan and the nineteen eighties
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ronald Reagan : communicating the America within / Dan Rather; title: Only an actor : memories of a Reagan biopic / Godfrey Hodgson; title: "Just say no" : drug abuse policy in the Reagan administration / Peter G. Bourne; title: Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War / Jack F. Matlock, Jr.; title: Reagan, nuclear weapons, and the end of the Cold War / Simon Head; title: Reaganomics and its legacy / Iwan Morgan; title: African American protest during the Reagan years : forging new agendas, defending old victories / Stephen Tuck; title: Reagan's religious right : the unlikely alliance between Southern evangelicals and a California conservative / Daniel K. Williams; title: Ronald Reagan and the Republican party : responses to realignment / Robert Mason; title: The Baptist and the messiah : Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher / Dominic Sandbrook; title: Transforming the presidency : the administration of Ronald Reagan / Joel D. Aberbach; title: The road to Mount Rushmore : the conservative commemoration crusade for Ronald Reagan / Niels Bjerre-Poulsen; title: Toward a historiography of Reagan and the 1980s : why have we done such a lousy job? / Gil Troy; title: Epilogue : Ronald Reagan and the historians / M.J. Heale.