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Sleepwalking through history : America in the Reagan years / Haynes Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Haynes, 1931-2013.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reagan, Ronald.
- United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- United States--History--1969-.
- History.
- Reagan, Ronald--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 525 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2003.
- Summary:
- In this brilliantly readable book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the Reagan decade, when America fell from dominant world power to struggling debtor nation and optimism turned to foreboding. In human terms and with living case histories, Haynes Johnson captures the drama and tragedy of an era nurtured by greed and a morality that found virtue in not getting caught. The problems that plagued us in the 1980s are even more with us today, as Johnson memorably demonstrates in his afterword, "Notes on an Era," written especially for this reissue: "The reckless, self-indulgent attitudes that typified America during the eighties and nineties seem to belong to ancient history. Except, of course, they do not; they continue to influence how we respond to foreign and domestic events." This book will remain a significant work of political analysis for years to come.
- Contents:
- Book 1 Washington, Jan. 20, 1981
- 1. The Capital 19
- 2. The Loser 24
- 3. The Winner 41
- 4. The New America 52
- 5. The New Conservatism 65
- 6. The Great Reaction 76
- 7. The Take-over 83
- 8. A New Era 93
- Book 2 America, Jan. 20, 1981
- 9. The Cabal 97
- 10. Rustbelt 116
- 11. Sunbelt 125
- 12. Capital of Success 132
- Book 3 The Teflon Years
- 13. Electronic Culture 139
- 14. Myths and Realities 153
- 15. Privatizing 168
- 16. God and Mammon 193
- 17. The Insiders 215
- 18. Deregulation 227
- 19. The Ledger 235
- 20. Secrets 245
- 21. Haven 261
- 22. April Again 275
- 23. On the Hill 301
- 24. The Investigation 333
- 25. Olliemania 348
- 26. Postmortems 366
- 27. Crash 372
- 28. Reckoning 387
- Book 4 America, Jan. 20, 1989
- 29. Capital of Success 411
- 30. Sunbelt 419
- 31. Rustbelt and Farmbelt 424
- 32. Wall Street 431
- 33. Washington 438
- Players of the Eighties 475.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-499) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393324346
- OCLC:
- 51518541
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