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The 1980s : a critical and transitional decade / edited by Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--1969-.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Foreign relations--1981-1989.
- International relations.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Reagan, Ronald.
- Physical Description:
- x, 502 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]
- Summary:
- The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade, edited by Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell, is a holistic analysis of the decade that focuses on major turning points and developments in literature, entertainment, politics, and social experimentation. This analysis ultimately presents the 1980s as a significant phenomenon in the American landscape. The 1980s is a groundbreaking and stand-alone introductory volume that is unapologetically interdisciplinary in nature and encourages students to explore topics of the decade often overlooked or grouped together with other, more memorable decades such as the 1920s or 1960s.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the 80s as a decade / Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell
- Ronald W. Reagan : redefining the presidency / Jeffery B. Cook
- Reagan revives FBI spying / Ivan Greenberg
- The "real" right turn : the Reagan Supreme Court / Scott A. Merriman
- Privatizing the Leviathan state : a "Reaganomic" legacy / Robert P. Weiss
- "Airlines? Lousy unions" : airline workers in the era of deregulation and hostile takeover / Jana K. Lipman
- Triumph of "the Gipper" and the Democratic Party malaise in the 1980s / Thomas F. Schaller
- The Christian right's traditionalist jeremiad : piety and politics in the age of Reagan / Andrew R. Murphy
- New right, new history, common ground : populism and the past / Jessie Swigger
- An army of one in 1:18 scale : the profit of patriotism in G.I. Joe / Demian Ryder
- "Fixing" the fifties : Alex P. Keaton and Marty McFly / Michael Dwyer
- How Broadway has cared : the AIDS epidemic and the Great White Way / Virginia Anderson.
- Counterpublic art and social practice / Philip Glahn
- Date rape and sexual politics / Caryn E. Neumann
- A culture in panic : day care abuse scandals and the vulnerability of children / N'Jai-An Patters
- What's class got to do with it? : facets of Tracy Chapman through song / Heather E. Harris
- Reading MTV: proliferation of United States culture in the age of globalization / Suzuko Morikawa
- The United States and apartheid / Paul M. Pressley
- The opening of China and the evolution of China-U.S. cross-cultural understanding / James Schnell
- U.S. foreign policy in Latin America on film : the case of Salvador / Kristin Sorensen
- Cold War crucible : the Berlin Wall and American exceptionalism / Kirk Tyvela
- Fear of a Black planet : Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Eddie Murphy and the globalization of Black masculinity / Reynaldo Anderson, Jason Thompson, and Nikita Harris
- Matter and Mammon : fiction in the age of Reagan / Alan Bilton
- Alternative for alternative's sake : progressive college radio's programming struggles / David Uskovich
- "Life in marvelous times" : commemorative narratives of the golden era in hip hop culture / James Braxton Peterson
- "Do we get to win this time?" : movies, mythology, and political culture in Reagan country / Stephen McVeigh.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739143131
- 0739143131
- 9780739143148
- 073914314X
- OCLC:
- 670479210
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