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Reaganland by Rick Perlstein
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Reaganland

America's Right Turn 1976-1980

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Length 45 hours 18 minutes
Language English
Narrators Samantha Desz, Jonathan Todd Ross, Jacques Roy & Gabra Zackman

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020

From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.

Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics. With the sagaā€™s final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement.

In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Fordā€™s defeat, too old to make another run. His comeback was fueled by an extraordinary confluence: fundamentalist preachers and former segregationists reinventing themselves as militant crusaders against gay rights and feminism; business executives uniting against regulation in an era of economic decline; a cadre of secretive ā€œNew Rightā€ organizers deploying state-of-the-art technology, bending political norms to the breaking pointā€”and Reaganā€™s own unbending optimism, his ability to convey unshakable confidence in America as the worldā€™s ā€œshining city on a hill.ā€

Meanwhile, a civil war broke out in the Democratic party. When President Jimmy Carter called Americans to a new ethic of austerity, Senator Ted Kennedy reacted with horror, challenging him for reelection. Carterā€™s Oval Office tenure was further imperiled by the Iranian hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, near-catastrophe at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant, aviation accidents, serial killers on the loose, and endless gas lines.

Backed by a reenergized conservative Republican base, Reagan ran on the campaign slogan ā€œMake America Great Againā€ā€”and prevailed. Reaganland is the story of how that happened, tracing conservativesā€™ cutthroat strategies to gain power and explaining why they endure four decades later.

RickĀ PerlsteinĀ is the author of theĀ New York TimesĀ bestsellerĀ The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan;Ā Nixonland: The Rise of a PresidentĀ and the Fracturing of America, aĀ New York TimesĀ bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by over a dozen publications; andĀ Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus,Ā which won the 2001Ā Los AngelesĀ TimesĀ BookĀ Award for history and appeared on the best books of the year lists ofĀ TheĀ New York Times,Ā TheĀ Washington Post, and theĀ Chicago Tribune.Ā HisĀ essays and book reviewsĀ have been published inĀ The New Yorker,Ā TheĀ New York Times,Ā TheĀ Washington Post,Ā TheĀ Nation,Ā TheĀ Village Voice,Ā andĀ Slate, among others.Ā A contributing editor and board member ofĀ In These TimesĀ magazine, heĀ lives in Chicago.

Gabra Zackman knows romance.Ā Her clever and ā€œthrilling romantic caperā€ (Library Journal) Bod Squad series was inspired by the more than one hundred romance and womenā€™s fiction titles she has narrated for audio. She divides her time between her native New York City and Denver, Colorado.

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