Ronald Reagan

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• 9/20/2020
  

  Rick Perlstein’s Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980

  by James Thornton Harris

  Rick Perlstein's latest volume in his study of the rise of the conservative movement focuses on the coming of Reaganism, but sheds light on how we got Trump.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/2020
  

  How Reagan Captured the Presidency, and the Right Captured Politics (Review)

  by Michael Bobelian

  Rick Perlstein's latest history of American conservatism is reviewed as a lens on today's aggrieved conservatism. 

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• 8/30/2020
  

  Remember Punk Rock? Probably Not…: The Real Culture War of 1980s America

  by Kevin Mattson

  Digging beneath the aesthetics of punk to find its politics, Kevin Mattson's new book finds a counterculture of suburban youths who identified the unrestrained capitalism of the Reagan era as the true nihilism threatening America.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/26/2020
  

  Reaganland' Author Revisits The Roots Of American Conservatism (audio)

  Author Rick Perlstein chronicles the events that propelled Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980. He says that a certain "viciousness" has always been part of the conservative Republican coalition.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/18/2020
  

  ‘Reaganland,’ by Rick Perlstein: An Excerpt

  'Reaganland: America's Right Turn, 1976-1980' is available now.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/15/2020
  

  Rick Perlstein: 'If you're not writing about the berserk, you're not writing about America' (Interview)

  The historian has completed his epic on the rise of the US right – just in time for Donald Trump’s attempt to hold on to his throne.

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• 8/9/2020
  

  The 1976 Election: Why We Can't Predict Vice Presidential Selections in Advance

  by Daniel K. Williams

  The 1976 campaign highlights a paradox: while the person a presidential nominee chooses as their running mate might be surprising, that individual is selected using criteria that are predictable. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  8/3/2020
  

  Reaganland Is the Riveting Conclusion to a Story That Still Isn’t Over (Review)

  "Rick Perlstein’s epic series shows political history and cultural history cannot be disentangled."

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/26/2020
  

  Ronald Reagan Foundation Asks RNC to Stop Using Reagan's Likeness for a Trump Fundraiser

  The RNC had printed a commemorative coin without receiving permission to use the 40th President’s likeness, said the Reagan Foundation's chief marketing officer.

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  7/2/2020
  

  Democrats May Beat Trump in November and Still not Learn the Most Important Lesson from his Presidency

  by Daniel Bessner

  Democrats must not just defeat Trump; they must commit to fighting a culture of elite impunity that has enabled the rise of Trump and an unaccountable Republican Party. 

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Ghosts of Neshoba: Why Trump Can't Dog Whistle His Way Back to the White House

  by Rick Perlstein

  Ronald Reagan's notorious "states' rights" pledge in Mississippi in 1980 was actually damaging to his campaign. The Gipper needed all his political skill and actor's discipline to rebuild his standing with moderates while still appealing to resentful white voters. Donald Trump lacks the skill to pull off the same trick.

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• SOURCE: Frank Interviews
  6/18/2020
  

  Rick Perlstein on Our "Law and Order" Presidents

  "I've been very fortunate in choosing the right topic."

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• 4/19/2020
  

  Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump: Adventures in Presidential Credibility

  by Donne Levy

  It is clear that if many white Americans feel alienated and powerless, they will vote for a candidate whose stories promise a better future or greater status for themselves, even if that candidate tells incredible falsehoods and appeals to racism

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/5/2020
  

  Scapegoating New York Means Ignoring Its Desperate Need

  by Kim Phillips-Fein

  Blaming the city for coronavirus is a way of letting the federal government off the hook.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/28/2020
  

  John Sears, Who Helped Guide Nixon And Reagan to The White House, Dies at 79

  John P. Sears was a powerful influence on Republican politics for over a decade.

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• SOURCE: Penn Live
  3/30/2020
  

  ‘Honey, I Forgot to Duck’: The Attempted Assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981

  On March 30,1981 President Ronald Reagan was shot while leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C..

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/3/2020
  

  Bernie Sanders is the Left's Ronald Reagan

  by Sam Tanenhaus

  Bernie Sanders remade his party with a youth movement he built from the outside. Just like the Gipper did.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  February 26, 2020
  

  Joe Biden is making a Supreme Court promise. Ronald Reagan did, too.

  Though some critics may dismiss it as pandering, a promise like this has a proven track record. Ronald Reagan vowed to put a woman on the Supreme Court; it was a key part of his campaign for president in 1980.

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• SOURCE: LA Times
  2/9/20
  

  The forgotten book that launched the Reagan Revolution

  by Craig Fehrman

  While Reagan’s biographers have explored the influence of GE and SAG on the budding politician, they’ve largely ignored what came next — namely “Where’s the Rest of Me?”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/16/20
  

  Another Disability Disaster in the Making

  by Jonathan M. Stein

  The Trump administration’s Social Security proposal would repeat one of Ronald Reagan’s most damaging mistakes.