The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 - Hardcover

Sean Wilentz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060744804 ISBN 13: 9780060744809

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2008

Synopsis

A conservative hero in a conservative age, Ronald Reagan is either so admired by a minority of historians or so disliked by the others than it has seemed as if he and his administration have been difficult to evaluate with detachment. This book aims to raise profound questions and opens debate about the past in US politics.

About this title

Synopsis:

In his political persona, as well as his policies, Reagan embodied a new fusion of deeply right-leaning politics with some of the rhetoric and even the spirit of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal and of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. In American political history, there have been a few figures, most of them presidents, who for better or worse have placed their political stamp indelibly on their times. They include Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt - and Ronald Reagan. A conservative hero in a conservative age, Reagan is either so admired by a minority of historians or so disliked by the others than it has seemed as if he and his administration have been difficult to evaluate with detachment. "The Age of Reagan" raises profound questions and opens passionate debate about the recent past in US politics.

About the Author:

Sean Wilentz is the author of The Rise of American Democracy, a Bancroft Prize winner.
Reader of over four hundred audiobooks, Dick Hill has won three coveted Audie Awards and been nominated numerous times. He is also the recipient of several AudioFile Earphones Awards. AudioFile includes Dick on their prestigious list of Golden Voices.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0060744804
• ISBN 13: 9780060744809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576