The 1980s : a critical and transitional decade /
As we approach twenty years since the end of the 1980s, we have the opportunity to see the decade in perspective, and are in a position to question the glib assumption that the 1980s were a mere conservative foil to the 1960s. This book places its topics within the context of a decade described as b...
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the 80s as a decade / Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell
- Ronald W. Reagan : redefining the presidency / Jeffery B. Cook
- Reagan revives FBI spying / Ivan Greenberg
- The "real" right turn : the Reagan Supreme Court / Scott A. Merriman
- Privatizing the Leviathan state : a "Reaganomic" legacy / Robert P. Weiss
- "Airlines? Lousy unions" : airline workers in the era of deregulation and hostile takeover / Jana K. Lipman
- Triumph of "the Gipper" and the Democratic Party malaise in the 1980s / Thomas F. Schaller
- The Christian right's traditionalist jeremiad : piety and politics in the age of Reagan / Andrew R. Murphy
- New right, new history, common ground : populism and the past / Jessie Swigger
- An army of one in 1:18 scale : the profit of patriotism in G.I. Joe / Demian Ryder
- "Fixing" the fifties : Alex P. Keaton and Marty McFly / Michael Dwyer
- How Broadway has cared : the AIDS epidemic and the Great White Way / Virginia Anderson.
- Counterpublic art and social practice / Philip Glahn
- Date rape and sexual politics / Caryn E. Neumann
- A culture in panic : day care abuse scandals and the vulnerability of children / N'Jai-An Patters
- What's class got to do with it? : facets of Tracy Chapman through song / Heather E. Harris
- Reading MTV: proliferation of United States culture in the age of globalization / Suzuko Morikawa
- The United States and apartheid / Paul M. Pressley
- The opening of China and the evolution of China-U.S. cross-cultural understanding / James Schnell
- U.S. foreign policy in Latin America on film : the case of Salvador / Kristin Sorensen
- Cold War crucible : the Berlin Wall and American exceptionalism / Kirk Tyvela
- Fear of a Black planet : Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Eddie Murphy and the globalization of Black masculinity / Reynaldo Anderson, Jason Thompson, and Nikita Harris
- Matter and Mammon : fiction in the age of Reagan / Alan Bilton
- Alternative for alternative's sake : progressive college radio's programming struggles / David Uskovich
- "Life in marvelous times" : commemorative narratives of the golden era in hip hop culture / James Braxton Peterson
- "Do we get to win this time?" : movies, mythology, and political culture in Reagan country / Stephen McVeigh.