Meg Jacobs, Julian Zelizer

Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989

A Brief History with Documents

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980 marked a victory for conservatism. However, as Meg Jacobs and Julian Zelizer point out in their introduction, once in power, conservatives discovered that implementing their agenda and reversing the liberalism entrenched in American government would not be as easy as they had hoped. In this collection, Jacobs and Zelizer explore the successes and limitations of the so-called Reagan Revolution and chronicle its legacy through subsequent presidencies up to Barack Obama's election in 2008. More than 60 thematically organized documents -- some recently released -- illuminate conservatives' efforts to shift American politics to the right. These materials explore Reagan's personal evolution as a conservative leader, as well as Reaganomics, tax cuts, anticommunism, the arms race, the culture wars, and scandals such as Iran Contra. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bedford Books / Macmillan Learning
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 247g
• ISBN-13: 9780312488314
• ISBN-10: 0312488319
• Artikelnr.: 29505196

Autorenporträt

Meg Jacobs; Julian Zelizer

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface   PART ONE. Introduction: Mr. Conservative Comes to Washington      From Movement to Governance      Domestic Politics      National Security       Conservatism since 1988 PART TWO. The Documents Origins
1957-1980      1. Ronald Reagan
Commencement Address at Eureka College
June 7
1957      2. Ronald Reagan
A Time for Choosing
October 27
1964      3. Ronald Reagan
Campaign Speech at the Cow Palace
San Francisco
May 12
1966      4. Ronald Reagan
California and the Problem of Government Growth
January 5
1967      5. Ronald Reagan
Speech to America
March 31
1976      6. Newt Gingrich
Campaign Speech to College Republicans in Atlanta
June 24
1978      7. Ronald Reagan
Speech at Neshoba County Fair
August 3
1980 Reaganomics
1981      8. Ronald Reagan
Inaugural Address
January 20
1981      9. Ronald Reagan
Address to the Nation on the Economy
February 5
1981       10. Robert Michel
Letter to Republican Colleagues
May 29
1981      11. Ronald Reagan
Air Traffic Controllers Strike
August 3
1981      12. William Greider
The Education of David Stockman
December 1981 Mobilizing on the Political Left and Right
1982      13. Elizabeth H. Dole
Black Strategy
February 24
1982      14. William F. Sittmann
Summer Alternatives
May 5
1982      15. Elizabeth H. Dole
Conservative Social Agenda
March 9
1982      16. John T. (Terry) Dolan
Letter to James Baker
August 12
1982      17. Ronald Reagan
Letter to Barry Goldwater
September 7
1982      18. Lee Atwater
“The Gender Gap”: A Postelection Assessment
November 23
1982 Morning in America: Reagan's Reelection
1983-1985      19. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.
Campaign to Save Medicare/Medicaid
1984      20. Ronald Reagan
Radio Address to the Nation on the Presidential Campaign
October 13
1984      21. Ronald Reagan
Remarks of the President to the Twelfth Annual Conservative Political Action Conference
March 1
1985 Domestic Culture Wars
1986-1988      22. William J. Bennett
Completing the Reagan Revolution
July 8
1986      23. Ronald Reagan
Address to the Nation on the Campaign against Drug Abuse
September 14
1986      24. Edward M. Kennedy
Robert Bork's America
July 1
1987      25. Gary L. Bauer
Issues Update - Taxes and the Budget
October 23
1987      26. Frank J. Donatelli
“Selfishness” as a 1988 Campaign Issue
January 6
1988      27. Ronald Reagan
1988 Legislative and Administrative Message: A Union of Individuals
January 25
1988 Reagan's Foreign Policy: Peace through Strength
1980-1983      28. Ronald Reagan
A Strategy for Peace in the Eighties
October 19
1980      29. Alexander M. Haig Jr.
Letter to Brezhnev
September 18
1981      30. Minutes of National Security Council Meeting on Strategy toward Cuba and Central America
November 10
1981      31. A Public Affairs Program to Support the Administration's Nuclear Policy
May 5
1982      32. National Security Council
Directive No. 75 on U.S. Relations with the USSR
January 17
1983      33. Ronald Reagan
“Evil Empire” Speech
March 8
1983      34. Ronald Reagan
Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security
March 23
1983   Setbacks and Victories in Foreign Affairs
1983-1984      35. Robert C. Byrd and Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.
Letter to President Reagan
July 28
1983      36. CBS News/New York Times
Poll on Grenada and Lebanon Conflicts
October 28
1983      37. William I. Greener III
Upcoming Movie on ABC
November 17
1983      38. Ronald Reagan
Remarks at a Ceremony Commemorating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion
D-Day
June 5
1984      39. Debate between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale
October 21
1984 International Negotiations and Covert Missions
1985-1986      40. Ronald Reagan
Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev
March 11
1985
and Alexander Yakovlev
Memo on Reagan
March 12
1985      41. Oliver North
Fallback Plan for the Nicaraguan Resistance
March 16
1985      42. Memo on Conversation between Reagan and Gorbachev and Meeting While Leaders Walk
November 19
1985      43. Oliver North and John M. Poindexter
Covert Action Finding Regarding Iran
January 17
1986      44. Ronald Reagan
Address to the Nation on the Situation in Nicaragua
March 16
1986 National Security Scandal and Success
1986-1988       45. Caspar Weinberger
Oval Office Meeting on Iran-Contra
November 10
1986      46. Ronald Reagan
Address to the Nation on the Iran Arms and Contra Aid Controversy
March 4
1987      47. Ronald Reagan
Remarks on East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin
June 12
1987      48. Ronald Reagan
Address to the Nation on the Iran Arms and Contra Aid Controversy and Administration Goals
August 12
1987      49. Arthur B. Culvahouse
Iran-Contra Congressional Reports
November 16
1987      50. Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair
Introduction to Iran-Contra Minority Report
1987      51. Meeting of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
December 8
1987      52. Ronald Reagan
Remarks at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
December 16
1988 Legacies
1988-2009      53. George H. W. Bush
Acceptance Speech at the 1988 Republican National Convention
 August 18
1988      54. George H. W. Bush
“New World Order” Speech
September 11
1990      55. Republican Party Leaders
Contract with America
1994      56. William J. Clinton
Statement on Signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
August 22
1996      57. George W. Bush
Acceptance Speech at the 2000 Republican National Convention
August 3
2000      58. George W. Bush
Address on the U.S. Response to the Terrorist Attacks of September 11
September 20
2001      59. George W. Bush
Eulogy at the National Funeral Service for Ronald Reagan
June 11
2004      60. Michael Scherer
Right-Wingers Turn against Bush
February 9
2006      61. Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson
A Political Odyssey
August 2
2009   Appendixes      A Chronology of Ronald Reagan and Conservatism (1911-2004)      Questions for Consideration      Selected Bibliography Index