America in the 1990s
Title | America in the 1990s PDF eBook |
Author | Marlene Targ Brill |
Publisher | Twenty-First Century Books |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2009-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0822576031 |
Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1990 to 1999.
The Eighties
Title | The Eighties PDF eBook |
Author | John Ehrman |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300115822 |
John Ehrman offers analysis of the transformation in American politics & society that marked the years of the Reagan presidency during the 1980s. He considers the fundamental shifts in American attitudes & examines the way Reagan built a right wing consensus around key policies.
Living in the Eighties
Title | Living in the Eighties PDF eBook |
Author | Gil Troy |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2009-10-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019972010X |
Some see the 1980s as a Golden Age, a "Morning in America" when Ronald Reagan revived America's economy, reoriented American politics, and restored Americans' faith in their country and in themselves. Others see the 1980s as a new "Gilded Age," an era that was selfish, superficial, glitzy, greedy, divisive, and destructive. This multifaceted exploration of the 1980s brings together a variety of voices from different political persuasions, generations, and vantage points. The volume features work by Reagan critics and Reagan fans (including one of President Reagan's closest aides, Ed Meese), by historians who think the 1980s were a disastrous time, those who think it was a glorious time, and those who see both the blessings and the curses of the decade. Their essays examine everything from multiculturalism, Southern conservatism, and Reaganomics, to music culture, religion, crime, AIDS, and the city. A complex, thoughtful account of a watershed in our recent history, this volume will engage anyone interested in this pivotal decade.
The Eighties in America
Title | The Eighties in America PDF eBook |
Author | Milton Berman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Nineteen eighties |
ISBN | 9781587654213 |
Reagan, AIDS, the Challenger disaster ... The 1980s were a pivotal time. Examine the iconic personalities, issues, and moments of the decade.
The Other Eighties
Title | The Other Eighties PDF eBook |
Author | Bradford Martin |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2011-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 142995342X |
In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and ‘70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look reveals that a sizable swath of Americans strongly disapproved of Reagan's policies throughout his presidency. With a weakened Democratic Party scurrying for the political center, many expressed their dissatisfaction outside electoral politics. Unlike the civil rights and Vietnam era protesters, activists of the 1980s often found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve the hard-won victories of the previous era. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in effecting change in areas from professional life to popular culture, while beating back an even more forceful political shift to the right. Martin paints an indelible portrait of these and other influential, but often overlooked, movements: from on-the-ground efforts to constrain the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, to mock shanties constructed on college campuses to shed light on corporate America's role in supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa. The result is a clearer, richer perspective on a turbulent decade in American life.
America in the 1980s
Title | America in the 1980s PDF eBook |
Author | Michele L. Camardella |
Publisher | Facts on File |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2005-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780816056446 |
Explores cultural, economic, and political events of the 1980s, including the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the fight against AIDS, the eruption of Mount Saint Helens, and the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
Back to Our Future
Title | Back to Our Future PDF eBook |
Author | David Sirota |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2011-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0345518802 |
Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past. In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New York Times bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s—from the “Greed is good” ethos of Gordon Gekko (and Bernie Madoff) to the “Make my day” foreign policy of Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush) to the “transcendence” of Cliff Huxtable (and Barack Obama). Today’s mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues, first became the norm when an ’80s generation weaned on Rambo one-liners and “Just Do It” exhortations embraced a new religion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials, videogames, and even children’s toys serving as the key instruments of cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Back to the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign was launched to reimagine the 1950s as America’s lost golden age and vilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980s revisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obama cast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton–esque Republicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-era conservatism. “The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not even past.” The 1980s—even more so. With the native dexterity only a child of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turns this multicolored Rubik’s Cube of a decade, exposing it as a warning for our own troubled present—and possible future.