Ronald Reagan's America Set

Subjects:

• Political Science » Presidential Studies
• History » American History -- 1946 to Present

Reviews:

• [T]he coverage is thorough and reasonably balanced. These two volumes offer a comprehensive survey of Reagan's domestic policies; the detailed index will be especially helpful to researchers.
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• Ronald Reagan's America provides a useful contribution to the body of work that analyzes and evaluates the Reagan presidency. It would make a good addition to liberary collections on contemporary American politics.
  —Perspectives on Political Science

Table of Contents:

• Preface by Eric J. Schmertz
• Personal Perspectives
• Overviews
• The Reagan Years: A Reporter's Notebook by Mike Wallace
• The Presidency and Ronald Reagan by Ralph C. Bledsoe
• The Ronald Reagan I Know: Policy, Politics, and Presidential Leadership by Edwin Meese III
• National Perspectives
• Conservative Agenda
• Reagan's Long-Term Legacy by Martin Anderson
• Ronald Reagan's Public Philosophy: Strands of Jefferson and Hamilton by Andrew E. Busch
• If They Did So Well, Why Do They Feel So Bad? The Right after the Reagan Years by Jerome L. Himmelstein
• Ronald Reagan and the Reformation of American Conservatism by Paul Peterson
• Deregulation
• Banking on the Brink: The Legacy of the Reagan Administration's Deregulation of Banking and Finance by Timothy A. Canova
• Deregulation Gone Awry: The Savings-and-Loan Debacle by Lawrence J. White
• Antitrust: A Study in Deregulation by Theodore P. Kovaleff
• Civil Rights
• The Reagan Civil Rights Legacy by Norman C. Amaker
• The Environment
• Hazardous Waste Policy, the Reagan Revolution, and the "Democratic Deficit" in America by Robert F. Durant
• Domestic Policy
• "A Nation under God": Ronald Reagan and the Crusade for School Prayer by Bruce J. Dierenfield
• Agenda Setting in the Reagan Administration: The Political Evolution of Medicare Catastrophic Coverage by Carolyn R. Thompson
• Family Policy during the Reagan Years: The Private Side of the Conservative Agency by Steve K. Wisensale
• Reagan and American Labor
• Labor Policies of the Reagan Administration by Herbert R. Northrup
• The Reagan Judiciary
• Reagan's Judges: A Latent Revolution? by W. Gary Fowler, Donald W. Jackson, and James W. Riddlesperger, Jr.
• The Rise of the Arrogant Presidency: Separation of Powers in the Reagan Presidency by Nancy Kassop
• The "Reagan Revolution" and the Federal Judiciary by David M. O'Brien
• Reagan and the Congress
• A Positive Negative: Veto Strategy and Success by the Reagan Administration by Samuel B. Hoff
• Executive Privilege in the Reagan Administration: Diluting a Constitutional Doctrine by Mark J. Rozell
• Contempt for Congress: The Reagan Administration, Congress, and the War Powers Resolution by Duane Tananbaum
• The Reagan White House
• The Men around Reagan by Dom Bonafede
• Ronald Reagan's Contrasting Chiefs of Staff by James P. Pfiffner
• The Reagan Administrative Style
• Ronald Reagan's Administrative Presidency: Costs, Contradictions, and the Future of Administrative Action by Ronald P. Seyb
• President Reagan's Administrative Formula by John W. Sloan
• "There He Goes Again": The Consistent Style of President, Governor, and Candidate Reagan by Leonard P. Stark
• Reagan's Foreign Policy: Personal or Institutional Triumph? by Kenneth W. Thompson
• The Elections of 1980 and 1984
• Ronald Reagan: Campaign Rhetoric and Administrative Performance by Michael G. Krukones
• The Vice Presidency
• The Bush Vice Presidency: Getting Right with the Right by Herbert S. Parmet
• The First Lady
• The Ultimate Political Partner: Nancy Reagan's Contribution to the Reagan Presidency by James S. Rosebush
• Reagan and FDR
• Reagan's FDR: (Re)constructing the New Deal Memory by Philip Abbott
• Rendezvous with Destiny: The Influence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan by Michael P. Riccards
• Assessments
• The Cabinet Assesses the Presidency
• The Reagan Experience with the Cabinet Government by Shirley Anne Warshaw
• Economists Assess the Presidency
• The Great Communicator: Reagan and the Media
• Ronald Reagan and Machiavelli: Appearance vs. Reality by Leslie Feldman
• "Why Shouldn't We Believe That? We Are Americans": Rhetorical Myths and Fantasies in the Reagan Inaugurals by John Kares Smith
• Index