The 1980s /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Diego, Calif. :
Greenhaven Press,
[2000]
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| Series: | America's decades.
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Table of Contents:
- The origins of '80s conservatism / by Iwan W. Morgan
- Reagan's policies shape American politics / by George Moss
- The truth about the 1980s economy / by Michael Schaller
- The 1984 election : the height of Reagan's popularity / by William H. Chafe
- The Iran-Contra affair / by Peter B. Levy
- The Reagan Doctrine and the new Cold War / by Richard V. Allen
- Mikhail Gorbachev : the unexpected reformer / by Gale Stokes
- Reagan and Gorbachev : from anonymity to "closeness" / by Wesley M. Bagby
- The revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of the Berlin Wall / by Don Oberdorfer
- The end of the Cold War / by Michael Kort
- The discovery of a "gay disease" / by Steven Epstein
- The war on drugs / by Michael Schaller
- The personal computer revolution / by Karl T. Thurber Jr.
- The space shuttle Challenger explosion / by T.A. Heppenheimer
- The Exxon Valdez oil spill / by Brad Knickerbocker
- Pop culture in the '80s : plenty of pleasant distractions / by Myron A. Marty
- The revolution will be televised : pop music of the '80s / by Paul Friedlander
- The "yuppie" phenomenon is reflected on film / by William J. Palmer
- America struggles with the legacy of Vietnam / by Pat Aufderheide.