{"product_id":"morning-in-america-gil-troy-9780691130606","title":"Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's","description":"\u003cp\u003eDid America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often \"yes.\" In \u003ci\u003eMorning in America\u003c\/i\u003e, Gil Troy argues that the Great Communicator was also the Great Conciliator. His pioneering and lively reassessment of Ronald Reagan's legacy takes us through the 1980s in ten year-by-year chapters, integrating the story of the Reagan presidency with stories of the decade's cultural icons and watershed moments-from personalities to popular television shows. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One such watershed moment was the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. With the trauma of Vietnam fading, the triumph of America's 1983 invasion of tiny Grenada still fresh, and a reviving economy, Americans geared up for a festival of international harmony that-spurred on by an entertainment-focused news media, corporate sponsors, and the President himself-became a celebration of the good old U.S.A. At the Games' opening, Reagan presided over a thousand-voice choir, a 750-member marching band, and a 90,000-strong teary-eyed audience singing \"America the Beautiful!\" while waving thousands of flags. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Reagan emerges more as happy warrior than angry ideologue, as a big-picture man better at setting America's mood than implementing his program. With a vigorous Democratic opposition, Reagan's own affability, and other limiting factors, the eighties were less counterrevolutionary than many believe. Many sixties' innovations went mainstream, from civil rights to feminism. Reagan fostered a political culture centered on individualism and consumption-finding common ground between the right and the left. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written with verve, \u003ci\u003eMorning in America\u003c\/i\u003e is both a major new look at one of America's most influential modern-day presidents and the definitive story of a decade that continues to shape our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gil Troy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691130604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691130606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.79w x 1.07d","brand":"Gil Troy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981099467007,"sku":"9780691130606","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7f2bb4a-5393-4891-b05f-db5873ae32f5.jpg?v=1683253651","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/morning-in-america-gil-troy-9780691130606","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}