Right Turn: American Life in the Reagan-Bush Era, 1980-1992 / Edition 1

by Michael Schaller

Overview

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 U.S. history, making use of diverse memoir material, journalistic accounts, biographies, and specialized policy studies, 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 force in 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 by conservative 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 each chapter, Right Turn is ideal for history and political science courses that cover post-1945 America as well as the 1980s and 1990s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195172577
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/16/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	9.24(w) x 6.26(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

University of Arizona

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Conservatism: From Margin to Mainstream, 1945-19802. Right Tide Rising3. National Politics, 1981-19924. From the New Cold War to the New World Order5. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Law, Economics, and Society in the 1980s6. Weird to Wired: Complexities of American CultureIndex