Author: United States. Panel on the Quality of American LifePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quality of life
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Quality of American Life in the Eighties
Author: United States. Panel on the Quality of American LifePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quality of life
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A National Agenda for the Eighties
Author: United States. President's Commission for a National Agenda for the EightiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Scraping by in the Big Eighties
Author: Natalia Rachel SingerPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803243095
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The author describes how her rejection of the materialism of her generation and her low-budget search for creative fulfillment led her to a duplex in Seattle, a beach hut in Mexico, and a Left Bank convent, but never freed her from her obligations as an American.
The Other Eighties
Author: Bradford MartinPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 142995342X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and ‘70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look reveals that a sizable swath of Americans strongly disapproved of Reagan's policies throughout his presidency. With a weakened Democratic Party scurrying for the political center, many expressed their dissatisfaction outside electoral politics. Unlike the civil rights and Vietnam era protesters, activists of the 1980s often found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve the hard-won victories of the previous era. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in effecting change in areas from professional life to popular culture, while beating back an even more forceful political shift to the right. Martin paints an indelible portrait of these and other influential, but often overlooked, movements: from on-the-ground efforts to constrain the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, to mock shanties constructed on college campuses to shed light on corporate America's role in supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa. The result is a clearer, richer perspective on a turbulent decade in American life.
Back to Our Future
Author: David SirotaPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345518802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past. In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New York Times bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s—from the “Greed is good” ethos of Gordon Gekko (and Bernie Madoff) to the “Make my day” foreign policy of Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush) to the “transcendence” of Cliff Huxtable (and Barack Obama). Today’s mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues, first became the norm when an ’80s generation weaned on Rambo one-liners and “Just Do It” exhortations embraced a new religion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials, videogames, and even children’s toys serving as the key instruments of cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Back to the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign was launched to reimagine the 1950s as America’s lost golden age and vilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980s revisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obama cast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton–esque Republicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-era conservatism. “The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not even past.” The 1980s—even more so. With the native dexterity only a child of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turns this multicolored Rubik’s Cube of a decade, exposing it as a warning for our own troubled present—and possible future.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Tax Aspects of the President's Economic Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and MeansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
Book Description
Pride and Prosperity: the 80s
Author: Time-Life BooksPublisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780783555102
Category : History-U.S-1980's
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Takes a look at the events, individuals, fads and fashions, and culture that shaped the 1980s.
U.S. Government Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
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