Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980 - Rick Perlstein
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From the best-selling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.
Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics. With the saga’s final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement.
In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Ford’s defeat, too old to make another run. His comeback was fueled by an extraordinary confluence: fundamentalist preachers and former segregationists reinventing themselves as militant crusaders against gay rights and feminism; business executives uniting against regulation in an era of economic decline; a cadre of secretive “New Right” organizers deploying state-of-the-art technology, bending political norms to the breaking point - and Reagan’s own unbending optimism, his ability to convey unshakable confidence in America as the world’s “shining city on a hill”. Meanwhile, a civil war broke out in the Democratic party. When President Jimmy Carter called Americans to a new ethic of austerity, Senator Ted Kennedy reacted with horror, challenging him for reelection. Carter’s Oval Office tenure was further imperiled by the Iranian hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, near-catastrophe at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant, aviation accidents, serial killers on the loose, and endless gas lines.
Backed by a reenergized conservative Republican base, Reagan ran on the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” - and prevailed. Reaganland is the story of how that happened, tracing conservatives’ cutthroat strategies to gain power and explaining why they endure four decades later.
Listening Length: 45 hours and 18 minutes
https://www.amazon.com/Reaganland-Americas-Right-Turn-1976-1980/dp/B083Y6JDB1
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51002403-reaganland
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This post has 11 comments with rating of 5/5
September 4th, 2020
Mr. Perlstein is interviewed here:
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/26/906195845/reaganland-author-revisits-the-roots-of-american-conservatism
September 5th, 2020
Read the first two in this cycle– great modern history. Thanks very much!
September 5th, 2020
Down a one way road that ends at the cliffs edge. Almost there & the brakes, like everything else, are broken.
All aboard the neoliberal express to collapse/hell. Woe the children.
September 5th, 2020
ap - are you still available for children’s parties, bar mitzvahs, etc?
Thx, Andy, prior works were superbio.
September 6th, 2020
The rise of conservatism (at any time) is down to two things.
1. More than 50% of non-stupid people went and voted.
2. Those who are willing to work are tired of being poor by having all of their money taken by an incompetent government and given to people who aren’t willing to work.
September 7th, 2020
I was interested in this series until I read the synopsis.
I can only assume this series if for socialists who either were not there in the 70s and 80s, or were so F’n high they remember it the way it is portrayed here. Another possibility, of course, is that they are communists and commie wannabes who are rewriting history to make themselves look less demonic.
September 9th, 2020
jkdmanaz,
I am listening to it currently. I enjoyed the authors prior books, but this one reads much more circumspect.
He criticizes Rs using PACs to spend on promoting R issues (that’s fine.) But in the preceding paragraphs, he notes “Congressman John Lewis” was the first to notice that the law allowed the creation of these groups and use them.
He doesn’t note the John Lewis was a Dem - so really Dems were doing it first. And also Mr. Lewis’ using the PAC is portrayed neutrally, while the Rs is viewed as negative. (and Mr. Lewis was so corrupt!)
So, it’s a bit like listening to NPR.
Hope it improves.
September 10th, 2020
“How conservatism took control of American political power?” The majority of Americans are moderates, which means somewhere between conservative and progressive, which includes a number of Democrats. That Republicans have won every other presidential election is hardly “taking control.” I’m sure that after Trump wins 2020, a Democrat will follow in his place. It’s the way it’s been for years.
September 10th, 2020
I’ve been waiting for this! Really excited to listen to this. Loved every other book from Perlstein.
January 19th, 2021
@rivatej428
to observe what occurred during the calendar year 2020, when a larger percentage of ownership of capital was redirected into the hands of men who are already billionaires that at any time human history, coupled with with the US government refusing to provide any meaningful relief to literallyl millions of average working people on the precipice of personal economic ruin, and then try to claim that the coming, inevitable economic catastrophe/correction was somehow the fault of those millions of working people is some of the worst, most lazy, most intellectually dishonest analysis of this moment I’ve yet read on the internet. Congratulations on that one. But, on the other hand, you and your take are utterly replaceable with any number of people doing the same awful, bad faith analysis of this moment in history…to the dustbin with all of you…
August 24th, 2021
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