TY - BOOK ID - 32080003 TI - Morning in America PY - 2013 SN - 0691096457 1400849306 0691130604 1299999972 9780691130606 9781400849307 9780691121666 0691121664 9780691096452 PB - Princeton, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Nineteen eighties. KW - Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. KW - Reagan, Ronald -- Influence. KW - United States -- Civilization -- 1970-. KW - United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989. KW - United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-. KW - 1980 (Décennie) KW - 1980s KW - 80s (twentieth century decade) KW - Années 80 KW - Années quatre-vingt (Vingtième siècle) KW - Années quatre-vingt [Les ](1980-1989) KW - Décennie 1980 KW - Eighties (Twentieth century decade) KW - Eighties [The ] KW - Jaren '80 KW - Jaren tachtig KW - Nineteen eighties KW - Quatre-vingt [Années ] (vingtième siècle) KW - Tachtiger jaren (1980-1989) KW - Années quatre-vingt (Vingtième siècle) KW - Reagan, Ronald. KW - Politics and culture KW - Politique et culture KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Reagan, Ronald KW - Influence. KW - United States KW - Etats-Unis KW - Civilization KW - Social conditions KW - Politics and government KW - Civilisation KW - Conditions sociales KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - 1970 KW - -United States KW - 1980 KW - -Reagan, Ronald KW - Influence KW - 20th century KW - 1981-1989 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32080003 AB - Did America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often "yes." In Morning in America, Gil Troy argues that the Great Communicator was also the Great Conciliator. His pioneering and lively reassessment of Ronald Reagan's legacy takes us through the 1980's in ten year-by-year chapters, integrating the story of the Reagan presidency with stories of the decade's cultural icons and watershed moments-from personalities to popular television shows. One such watershed moment was the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. With the trauma of Vietnam fading, the triumph of America's 1983 invasion of tiny Grenada still fresh, and a reviving economy, Americans geared up for a festival of international harmony that-spurred on by an entertainment-focused news media, corporate sponsors, and the President himself-became a celebration of the good old U.S.A. At the Games' opening, Reagan presided over a thousand-voice choir, a 750-member marching band, and a 90,000-strong teary-eyed audience singing "America the Beautiful!" while waving thousands of flags. Reagan emerges more as happy warrior than angry ideologue, as a big-picture man better at setting America's mood than implementing his program. With a vigorous Democratic opposition, Reagan's own affability, and other limiting factors, the eighties were less counterrevolutionary than many believe. Many sixties' innovations went mainstream, from civil rights to feminism. Reagan fostered a political culture centered on individualism and consumption-finding common ground between the right and the left. Written with verve, Morning in America is both a major new look at one of America's most influential modern-day presidents and the definitive story of a decade that continues to shape our times. ER -