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17.
The Reagan Revolution
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
FULL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. What was the secret of Reagan's political success?
2. What was "Reaganomics"?
3. Why did the 1980s see rises in crime, drug use and homelessness?
Required Reading (select two or more items from this list):
Robert M. Collins, Transforming America: Politics and Culture
During the Reagan Years (2007)
John Ehrman, The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan (2005)
J. P. Diggins, Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom and the Making of History
(2007)
Gil Troy, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (2005)
Robert
Dalleck, "Symbolic Victories," in Ronald Reagan: The
Politics of Symbolism
E. J. Dionne, Why Americans Hate Politics ch. 8 & 11
Primary Documents
The
Lewis Powell Memo, 1971[setting out a strategy by which conservatives
could finance an assult on liberals]
Ronald
Reagan's First Innaugural Address, 1981 (and on video at The
American Presidency Project)
LA
Times interview with Ronald Reagan, 1982
Ronald
Reagan, speech accepting the Republican nomination, 1980 (at PBS website)
The "Evil Empire" speech,
London, June 1982
Ronald
Reagan's Farewell Speech, Jan 1989 (at PBS website) (and
audio at The
American Presidency Project)
Pat
Robertson, Citizens of Character Must Get Involved (1986)
Interview
with Randall Terry (1988) [on anti-abortion campiagn]
Reagan and
Gorbachev in Red Square, 1988
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