| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
ix, 1107 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 921-1065) and index. |
| Summary |
Connects the activities and influence of today's conservative movements to a deliberate shift toward right-wing policies that began during the Carter administration and led to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. |
| Contents |
"Nibbled to death by ducks" -- "What is an Orrin Hatch?" -- "Hi, Jimmy!" -- Iceberg -- Human rights -- "Little hot squat" -- Lancegate -- "The moral womanly woman is alive and well in Mississippi" -- "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" -- Boardroom Jacobins -- "hang Sen. Dick Clark on a telephone pole" -- In which the president of the United States is said to have nearly killed an Indian -- Capital gains -- No one shoots Santa Claus -- "The white, American middle class plus blacks who want the same thing" -- "High and dry" -- Almighty politics -- Election season -- Basements -- Conventional wisdom -- Superman -- Christian soldiers -- The "front runner" -- Energy -- To the mountaintop -- "Refusing to fan the flames of moderation" -- "Do you ever feel that we might be the generation that sees Armageddon?" -- Shocks -- Kickoffs -- Patriotisms -- "The imam does not often respond" -- "Do you believe in miracles?" -- "Jimmy's depression is gonna be worse than Herbert's" -- "Feed your faith and starve your doubts!" -- Conventions -- "Meanness" -- "A shabby business" -- "Carter is smarter than Reagan". |
| Subject |
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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Reagan, Ronald.
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| Subject(S) |
Conservatism -- United States.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1974-1977.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Reagan land |
| ISBN |
9781476793054 (hardcover) |
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