The right moment : Ronald Reagan's first victory and the decisive turning point in American politics / Matthew Dallek.
2000
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Title
The right moment : Ronald Reagan's first victory and the decisive turning point in American politics / Matthew Dallek.
Author
Dallek, Matthew, 1969-
ISBN
068484320X (hardcover)
9780684843209 (hardcover)
9780684843209 (hardcover)
Imprint
New York : Free Press, ©2000.
Language
English
Description
xi, 284 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
F866.2 .D35 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
324.9794/053
Summary
"Drawing on scores of oral history interviews, thousands of archival documents, and many personal interviews with participants. Matthew Dallek charts the rise of one great politician, the demise of another, and the clash of diametrically opposing worldviews. He offers a new portrait of the 1960s that is far more complicated than our collective memory of that decade. The New Left activists were offset by an equally impassioned group on the other side. For every SDS organizer there was a John Birch activist; for every civil rights marcher there was an anticommunist rally-goer; for every antiwar protester there were several more who sympathized with American aims in Southeast Asia. Dallek's compelling history offers an important reminder that the rise of Ronald Reagan and the conservatives may be the most lasting legacy of that discordant time."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Critical Years
1. The Giant Killer
2. The Anticommunist
3. "Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Liberal?"
4. "Run Ronnie Run"
5. "You've Got to Get Those Kids Out of There"
6. "A Bunch of Kooks"
7. "Charcoal Alleys"
8. The George Wallace of California
9. The Search for Order
10. Prairie Fire.
1. The Giant Killer
2. The Anticommunist
3. "Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Liberal?"
4. "Run Ronnie Run"
5. "You've Got to Get Those Kids Out of There"
6. "A Bunch of Kooks"
7. "Charcoal Alleys"
8. The George Wallace of California
9. The Search for Order
10. Prairie Fire.