Doug Rossinow
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231169882
- eISBN:
- 9780231538657
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169882.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This book looks at the full measure of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in the 1980s ...
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This book looks at the full measure of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in the 1980s achieved impressive success in their efforts to transform American government, politics, and society, ushering in the political and social system Americans inhabit today. The book links current trends in economic inequality to the policies and social developments of the Reagan era. It reckons with the racial politics of Reaganism and its debt to the backlash generated by the civil rights movement, as well as Reaganism’s entanglement with the politics of crime and the rise of mass incarceration. The book narrates the conflicts that rocked U.S. foreign policy toward Central America, and it explains the role of the recession during the early 1980s in the decline of manufacturing and the growth of a service economy.Less
This book looks at the full measure of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in the 1980s achieved impressive success in their efforts to transform American government, politics, and society, ushering in the political and social system Americans inhabit today. The book links current trends in economic inequality to the policies and social developments of the Reagan era. It reckons with the racial politics of Reaganism and its debt to the backlash generated by the civil rights movement, as well as Reaganism’s entanglement with the politics of crime and the rise of mass incarceration. The book narrates the conflicts that rocked U.S. foreign policy toward Central America, and it explains the role of the recession during the early 1980s in the decline of manufacturing and the growth of a service economy.
