
Reaganland
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From the bestselling author of Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge, and Before the Storm comes the dramatic conclusion of how modern conservatism took control of American political power.
Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in American political history. With the saga's final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement.
In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Ford's defeat, too old to make another run. His comeback was fueled by an extraordinary confluence: fundamentalist preachers and former segregationists reinventing themselves as militant crusaders against gay rights and feminism; business executives uniting against regulation in an era of economic decline; a cadre of secretive ?New Right? organizers deploying state-of-the-art technology, bending political norms to the breaking point?and Reagan's own unbending optimism, his ability to convey unshakable confidence in America as the world's ?shining city on a hill.?
Meanwhile, a civil war broke out in the Democratic party. When President Jimmy Carter called Americans to a new ethic of austerity, Senator Ted Kennedy reacted with horror, challenging him for reelection. Carter's Oval Office tenure was further imperiled by the Iranian hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, near-catastrophe at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant, aviation accidents, serial killers on the loose, and endless gas lines.
Backed by a reenergized conservative Republican base, Reagan ran on the campaign slogan ?Make America Great Again??and prevailed. Reaganland is the story of how that happened, tracing conservatives' cutthroat strategies to gain power and explaining why they endure four decades later.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Book One: 1976
- Chapter 1: "Nibbled to Death by Ducks"
- Chapter 2: "What Is an Orrin Hatch?"
- Book Two: 1977
- Chapter 3: "Hi, Jimmy!"
- Chapter 4: Iceberg
- Chapter 5: Human Rights
- Chapter 6: "Little Hot Squat"
- Chapter 7: Lancegate
- Chapter 8: "The Moral Womanly Woman Is Alive and Well in Mississippi"
- Chapter 9: "God Made Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve"
- Chapter 10: Boardroom Jacobins
- Book Three: 1978
- Chapter 11: "Hang Sen. Dick Clark on a Telephone Pole"
- Chapter 12: In Which the President of the United States Is Said to Have Nearly Killed an Indian
- Chapter 13: Capital Gains
- Chapter 14: No One Shoots Santa Claus
- Chapter 15: "The White, American Middle Class Plus Blacks Who Want the Same Thing"
- Chapter 16: "High and Dry"
- Chapter 17: Almighty Politics
- Chapter 18: Election Season
- Chapter 19: Basements
- Book Four: 1979
- Chapter 20: Conventional Wisdom
- Chapter 21: 'Superman'
- Chapter 22: Christian Soldiers
- Chapter 23: The "Front-Runner"
- Chapter 24: Energy
- Chapter 25: To the Mountaintop
- Chapter 26: "Refusing to Fan the Flames of Moderation"
- Chapter 27: "Do You Ever Feel That We Might Be the Generation That Sees Armageddon?"
- Chapter 28: Shocks
- Chapter 29: Kickoffs
- Chapter 30: Patriotisms
- Book Five: 1980
- Chapter 31: "The Imam Does Not Often Respond"
- Chapter 32: "Do You Believe in Miracles?"
- Chapter 33: "Jimmy's Depression Is Gonna be 'Worse' than Herbert's"
- Chapter 34: "Feed Your Faith and Starve Your Doubts!"
- Chapter 35: Conventions
- Chapter 36: "Meanness"
- Chapter 37: "A Shabby Business"
- Chapter 38: "Carter Is Smarter Than Reagan"
- Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Notes
- Index
- Photo Credits
- Copyright
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