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The Age of Reagan (Hardcover)

By: Steven F. Hayward (Author)

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"A fluidly written history, Hayward's work and its ideological anchorage would balance a liberal's history...."

'[A] book that reads at times like a great historical drama, a kind of WAR & PEACE of the American century, complete with romance and adventure and tragic characters, a thrilling survey of what we might have thought to be familiar history, but which appears here quite transformed."

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The Age of Reagan brings to life the tumultuous decade and a half that preceded Ronald Reagan's ascent to the White House. Based on scores of interviews and years of research, Steven F. Hayward takes us on an engrossing journey through the most politically divisive years the United States has had to endure since the decade before the Civil War. Overseas, we were embroiled in a war we couldn't win; at home our streets had become battlefields; and in Washington, the old liberal order was collapsing under the weight of a long string of failed policies. "It seemed that an era of American optimism and progress had come to a close," Hayward writes. "The concatenation of Vietnam, Watergate, the recurrent energy crisis, the swooning economy, the increasingly disorderly world scene, and the failed presidencies associated with these events robbed Americans of their native optimism for the future."
Meanwhile, from out of the West arose a new conservative movement led by Ronald Reagan, a one-time Hollywood actor whose speech in 1964 in support of the doomed candidacy of Barry Goldwater not only electrified a national television audience but also created a political star who would change the course of history.
With meticulous detail, Hayward captures an America at war with itself—and an era whose reverberations we feel to this very day. He brings new insight into the profound failure of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the oddly liberal nature of Richard Nixon's administration, the significance of Reagan's years as California's governor, and the sudden-death drama of his near defeat of Gerald Ford in the 1976 Republican primary, the listlessness of Jimmy Carter's leadership, and the political earthquake that was Reagan's victorious presidential campaign in 1980.
Provocative, authoritative, and majestic in scope, The Age of Reagan is an unforgettable account of the rebirth and triumph of the American spirit.

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Steven Hayward examines the rise of American conservatism from a fringe in the mid-1960s to the center of American life, culminating in the election of President Reagan. Hayward traces the sometimes vitriolic debates that divided the nation during the terms of four presidents: Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter--and while he is especially critical of the Democrats, he also takes Nixon to task, pointing out what he sees as liberal tendencies. As the Democrats seemed to be losing their direction, Reagan was proving himself as governor of California, and, a the Republican Convention he vied for and won the hearts and minds of many Republicans, unifying his party and taking it down a new course.

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