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8 de ago. de 2004 · The 1980s were a time of paradox and change yet Reagan’s friends believe he changed the world more than the world changed him. Reagan came to the White House underestimated, deemed a dullard who doled out tall tales and mixed Hollywood fantasy with political reality.
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.
In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the ideology of Reagan...
17 de feb. de 2015 · 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.
Ronald Reagan, a conservative Republican, won the 1980 presidential election in a landslide. He won reelection in 1984 by one of the largest margins in US history.
21 de jul. de 2023 · Ronald Reagan and the 1980s : perceptions, policies, legacies. Publication date. 2008. Topics. Reagan, Ronald, Reagan, Ronald -- Political and social views, Reagan, Ronald -- Influence, Presidents -- United States -- Biography, Nineteen eighties, United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989. Publisher.
In April 1979, revolutionary students in Teheran took fifty-two Americans hostage weeks after Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini founded the Islamic Republic of Iran, triggering an international crisis that fatally wounded Jimmy Carter’s presidency.
