
Right Star Rising
A New Politics, 1974-1980
Laura Kalman(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 9. July 2010
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-393-07638-7 (ISBN)
Description
On the face of it, the Ford-Carter years seem completely forgettable. They were years of weak presidential leadership and national drift. Yet, as Laura Kalman shows in this absorbing narrative history, the contours of our contemporary politics took shape during these years. This was the incubation period for a powerful movement on the right that was to triumph with Ronald Reagan's election in 1980. These years also marked the coming of age of the social movements of the 1960s, as their causes moved from the streets to the courts for mediation. Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action and the scope of privacy rights had immense social and political impact. The nation experienced an energy crisis, a sharp economic downturn, and a collision with fundamentalism in Iran that set the terms for coming crises. Kalman's navigation of this eventful political and social terrain is expert and riveting.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 pages of black-and-white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
839 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-07638-7 (9780393076387)
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06/2010
W. W. Norton & Company
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Person
Laura Kalman is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of acclaimed books in American political and legal history.