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"From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling biographer H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the first full life of Ronald Reagan since his death. Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential...
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One of America's most dynamic leaders, Reagan remains a guiding light for the Republican Party. Some historians and scholars believe Reagan re-shaped not just the political landscape, but the way many Americans view government-and each other. In this three-hour series, titled The Reagan Presidency, the producers will focus on the eight years of the Reagan presidency. In addition to interviews with those who've spent years analyzing his policies and...
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25 years after Reagan became president, Richard Reeves has written a new portrait, using newly declassified documents and hundreds of interviews to show a president at work day by day, sometimes minute by minute. This is the story of a bold, even reckless leader, a gambler, a man who imagined an American past and an American future--and made them real. Reeves shows a man who understands how to be President, who knows that the job is not to manage...
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Wilentz, the eminent Princeton historian, argues that for the past thirty-five years U.S. political history has been defined by the new politics of conservatism brokered by its major powerhorse, Ronald Reagan. Following an analysis of Reagan's presidency, Wilentz concludes that Reagan not only transformed the stage of geopolitics, but also the American judiciary and government bureaucracy, while lifting the hearts of Americans who lived through Vietnam...
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In this long awaited successor to his #1 national bestseller The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam describes in fascinating human detail how the shadow of Cold War Vietnam still hangs over American foreign policy, and how domestic politics have determined our role as a world power. Halberstam brilliantly evokes the internecine conflicts, the untrammeled egos, and the struggles for dominance among the key figures in the White House, the State...
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Includes discussion on various domestic policy issues such as: abortion, civil rights, death penalty, Equal Rights Amendment, family values, gays in the military, gun control, health care, labor, the New Deal, social security, welfare reform and the economy. Foreign policy issues discussed include: the Cold War, communism, the
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Discusses how racial politics and how the black vote has made a difference in every presidential race from JFK's campaign in 1960 to George W. Bush's 2000 campaign. Political issues such as affirmative action, desegration, the Civil Rights Act, racial quotas, the economy and welfare are also discussed; as is the role television and the media have played in presidential campaigns.
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