Reconsidering Reagan
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Reconsidering Reagan
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Author : Daniel S. Lucks
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2020-08-04
Reconsidering Reagan written by Daniel S. Lucks and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
2021 Prose Award Finalist A long-overdue and sober examination of President Ronald Reagan’s racist politics that continue to harm communities today and helped shape the modern conservative movement. Ronald Reagan is hailed as a transformative president and an American icon, but within his twentieth-century politics lies a racial legacy that is rarely discussed. Both political parties point to Reagan as the “right” kind of conservative but fail to acknowledge his political attacks on people of color prior to and during his presidency. Reconsidering Reagan corrects that narrative and reveals how his views, policies, and actions were devastating for Black Americans and racial minorities, and that the effects continue to resonate today. Using research from previously untapped resources including the Black press which critically covered Reagan’s entire political career, Daniel S. Lucks traces Reagan’s gradual embrace of conservatism, his opposition to landmark civil rights legislation, his coziness with segregationists, and his skill in tapping into white anxiety about race, riding a wave of “white backlash” all the way to the Presidency. He argues that Reagan has the worst civil rights record of any President since the 1920s—including supporting South African apartheid, packing courts with conservatives, targeting laws prohibiting discrimination in education and housing, and launching the “War on Drugs”—which had cataclysmic consequences on the lives of Black and Brown people. Linking the past to the present, Lucks expertly examines how Reagan set the blueprint for President Trump and proves that he is not an anomaly, but in fact the logical successor to bring back the racially tumultuous America that Reagan conceptualized.
Reassessing The Reagan Presidency
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Author : Richard Steven Conley
language : en
Publisher: Upa
Release Date : 2003
Reassessing The Reagan Presidency written by Richard Steven Conley and has been published by Upa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Essays collected here, first presented at the International Conference on the History of the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, March 2002, represent a cross-section of presidency scholars in the fields of history and political science. After an overview of the current state of research on the Reagan presidency, essays address Reagan's "public" or "rhetorical" presidency, his connection with conservatives and conservatism, and institutional politics in the Reagan years. Conley teaches political science at the University of Florida. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Restoring The Presidency
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Author : Ronald Reagan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Restoring The Presidency written by Ronald Reagan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Executive power categories.
Bad Faith
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Author : Randall Balmer
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-10
Bad Faith written by Randall Balmer and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-10 with Religion categories.
A surprising and disturbing origin story There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: with righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion after the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. The problem is this story simply isn’t true. Largely ambivalent about abortion until the late 1970s, evangelical leaders were first mobilized not by Roe v. Wade but by Green v. Connally, a lesser-known court decision in 1971 that threatened the tax-exempt status of racially discriminatory institutions—of which there were several in the world of Christian education at the time. When the most notorious of these schools, Bob Jones University, had its tax-exempt status revoked in 1976, evangelicalism was galvanized as a political force and brought into the fold of the Republican Party. Only later, when a more palatable issue was needed to cover for what was becoming an increasingly unpopular position following the civil rights era, was the moral crusade against abortion made the central issue of the movement now known as the Religious Right. In this greatly expanded argument from his 2014 Politico article “The Real Origins of the Religious Right,” Randall Balmer guides the reader along the convoluted historical trajectory that began with American evangelicalism as a progressive force opposed to slavery, then later an isolated apolitical movement in the mid-twentieth century, all the way through the 2016 election in which 81 percent of white evangelicals coalesced around Donald Trump for president. The pivotal point, Balmer shows, was the period in the late 1970s when American evangelicals turned against Jimmy Carter—despite his being one of their own, a professed “born-again” Christian—in favor of the Republican Party, which found it could win their loyalty through the espousal of a single issue. With the implications of this alliance still unfolding, Balmer’s account uncovers the roots of evangelical watchwords like “religious freedom” and “family values” while getting to the truth of how this movement began—explaining, in part, what it has become.
Reagan S War
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Author : Peter Schweizer
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2003-10-21
Reagan S War written by Peter Schweizer and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Reagan’s War is the story of Ronald Reagan’s personal and political journey as an anti-communist, from his early days as an actor to his years in the White House. Challenging popular misconceptions of Reagan as an empty suit who played only a passive role in the demise of the Soviet Union, Peter Schweizer details Reagan’s decades-long battle against communism. Bringing to light previously secret information obtained from archives in the United States, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Russia—including Reagan’s KGB file—Schweizer offers a compelling case that Reagan personally mapped out and directed his war against communism, often disagreeing with experts and advisers. An essential book for understanding the Cold War, Reagan’s War should be read by open-minded readers across the political spectrum.
Planning Reagan S War
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Author : Francis H. Marlo
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2012-05
Planning Reagan S War written by Francis H. Marlo and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Since the mid-1990s, there has been increasing interest in reassessing the role Ronald Reagan and his administration played in ending the Cold War. Yet, until now, no book has explained the intellectual pedigree of the key elements of Reagan's strategy while placing him at the centre of its development.
Reconsidering American Political Thought
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Author : Saladin Ambar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-11
Reconsidering American Political Thought written by Saladin Ambar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-11 with Political Science categories.
Filling in the missing spaces left by traditional textbooks on American political thought, Reconsidering American Political Thought uses race, gender, and ethnicity as a lens through which to engage ongoing debates on American values and intellectual traditions. Weaving document-based texts analysis with short excerpts from classics in American literature, this book presents a re-examination of the political and intellectual debates of consequence throughout American history. Purposely beginning the story in 1619, Saladin Ambar reassesses the religious, political, and social histories of the colonial period in American history. Thereafter, Ambar moves through the story of America, with each chapter focusing on a different era in American history up to the present day. Ambar threads together analysis of periods including Thomas Jefferson’s aspiration to create an "Empire of Liberty," the ethnic, racial, and gender-based discourse instrumental in creating a "Yankee" industrial state between 1877 and 1932, and the intellectual, cultural, and social forces that led to the political rise of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama in recent decades. In closing, Ambar assesses the prospects for a new, more invigorated political thought and discourse to reshape and redirect national energies and identity in the Trump presidency. Reconsidering American Political Thought presents a broad and subjective view about critical arguments in American political thought, giving future generations of students and lecturers alike an inclusive understanding of how to teach, research, study, and think about American political thought.
Tear Down This Myth
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Author : Will Bunch
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-02-02
Tear Down This Myth written by Will Bunch and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-02 with Political Science categories.
Challenges popular conceptions about the 40th president's administration and legacy, arguing that subsequent presidents and conservative policymakers have exploited the country's misunderstandings of Reagan's achievements to promote risky agendas. Reprint.
Ronald Reagan
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Author : David T. Byrne
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2018-11-01
Ronald Reagan written by David T. Byrne and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this ambitious work David T. Byrne analyzes the ideas that informed Ronald Reagan’s political philosophy and policies. Rather than appraising Reagan’s personal and emotional life, Byrne’s intellectual biography goes one step further; it establishes a rationale for the former president’s motives, discussing how thinkers such as Plato and Adam Smith influenced him. Byrne points to three historical forces that shaped Reagan’s political philosophy: Christian values, particularly the concept of a universal kingdom of God; America’s firm belief in freedom as the greatest political value and its aversion to strong centralized government; and the appeasement era of World War II, which stimulated Reagan’s aggressive and confrontational foreign policy. Byrne’s account of the fortieth president augments previous work on Reagan with a new model for understanding him. Byrne shows how Reagan took conservatism and the Republican Party in a new direction, departing from the traditional conservatism of Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk. His desire to spread a “Kingdom of Freedom” both at home and abroad changed America’s political landscape forever and inspired a new conservatism that persists to this day.
Reconsidering The American Presidency And Its Relation To Congress And The Bureaucracy
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Author : Louis William Koenig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Reconsidering The American Presidency And Its Relation To Congress And The Bureaucracy written by Louis William Koenig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Executive departments categories.