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The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 by Sean Wilentz (CD-Audio, 2008)

In The Age of Reagan, Sean Wilentz offers a fresh, brilliant chronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon. The past thirty-five years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s and temporarily reversed in the 1990s, a powerful surge from the Right has dominated American politics and government. Wilentz accounts for how an extreme conservative movement once deemed marginal managed to seize power and hold it, and the momentous consequences that followed.Ronald Reagan has been the single most important political figure of this age. Without Reagan, the conservative movement would never have been as successful as it was. In his political persona, as well as his policies, Reagan embodied a new fusion of deeply right-leaning politics with some of the rhetoric and even the spirit of Franklin Dela Roosevelt's New Deal and of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. In American political history, there have been a few figures who, for better or worse, have placed their political stamp indelibly on their times. They include Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Dela Roosevelt-and Ronald Reagan. A conservative hero in a conservative age, Reagan is either so admired by a mirity of historians or so disliked by the others that it has been difficult to evaluate his administration with detachment. The Age of Reagan raises profound questions and opens passionate debate about our nation's recent past.

Place of Publication
Old Saybrook, Ct
Running Time
1380
Narrator(s)
Dick Hill
Author Biography
Sean Wilentz is the Sidney and Ruth Lappidus Professor in the American Revolutionary Era at Princeton University and the author of The Rise of American Democracy, a Bancroft Prize winner. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Reader of over four hundred audiobooks, Dick Hill has won three coveted Audie Awards and been nominated numerous times. He is also the recipient of several AudioFile Earphones Awards. AudioFile includes Dick on their prestigious list of Golden Voices.
Out-Of-Print Date
04/02/2017
Date of Publication
16/06/2008
Edition Statement
Library Ed
Country of Publication
United States

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