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Ronald Reagan and the 1980s

Perceptions, Policies, Legacies

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Studies of the Americas (STAM)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction Reagan and the 1980s

    1. Introduction Reagan and the 1980s

      • Cheryl Hudson, Gareth Davies
      Pages 1-15
  3. Perceptions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
    2. Only an Actor: Memories of a Reagan Biopic

      • Godfrey Hodgson
      Pages 29-40
    3. Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War

      • Jack F. Matlock Jr.
      Pages 57-78
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 263-268

About this book

By the end of the 1980s, many Americans looked at the state of the nation with a renewed optimism, which was personified by an enduring American president - Ronald Wilson Reagan. The essays in this volume revisit the 1980s in order to examine the factors that contributed to his political and cultural triumphs and assess his legacy.

Keywords

  • Cold War
  • Policy
  • Protest
  • The Republic

Reviews

"The essays in this splendid collection offer a nuanced, up-to-date understanding not only of Ronald Reagan but also of larger social, economic, and political trends of the 1980s - and of their legacies." - James T. Patterson, author of Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore

Editors and Affiliations

  • Vanderbilt University, USA

    Cheryl Hudson

  • Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK

    Cheryl Hudson

  • St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, UK

    Gareth Davies

About the editors


CHERYL HUDSON is an Associate Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK.
 
GARETH DAVIES is University Lecturer in American History at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK.

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eBook USD 89.00
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