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I finished writing my book Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s in the spring of 2004.1 I received the copyedited manuscript back in June 2004, giving me my last chance to make substantive changes to the text. Fortunately, my deadline was mid-June, one week after Ronald Reagan’s death.
If you can write a nation’s stories, you needn’t worry about who makes its laws
Dr. George Gerbner, University of Pennsylvania
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Gil Troy, Morning in America: How Ronald Regan Invented the 1980s (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).
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Troy, G. (2008). Toward a Historiography of Reagan and the 1980s: Why Have We Done Such A Lousy Job?. In: Hudson, C., Davies, G. (eds) Ronald Reagan and the 1980s. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616196_14
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