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The Reagan rhetoric : history and memory in 1980s America / Toby Glenn Bates.
LIBRA E877.2 .B38 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bates, Toby Glenn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reagan, Ronald--Oratory.
- Reagan, Ronald.
- Political oratory--United States--History--20th century.
- Political oratory.
- Collective memory.
- History.
- Oratory.
- United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- Collective memory--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Political aspects--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- States rights : Reagan and the 1964 Neshoba County murders in American memory
- A noble cause : twenty-five years of consistency in Reagan's Vietnam rhetoric
- "Do we get to win this time?" Reagan, Rambo and Platoon, and the Vietnam veteran
- Reagan, the Vietnam veteran, 1980s television, and comics
- Falling from grace : the inconsistency of Iran-Contra
- Iran-Contra and Reagan's return to consistency
- Reagan's death and the enduring power of collective memory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780875806549
- 0875806546
- OCLC:
- 692288517
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