Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

Jacobs, Meg; Zelizer, Julian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312488319 ISBN 13: 9780312488314

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010

Synopsis

Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989 explores the successes and limitations of the so-called Reagan Revolution, chronicling its legacy through subsequent presidencies.

About this title

About the Author:

MEG JACOBS (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is an associate professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she specializes in twentieth-century American political history. Her first book, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2005) won the Organization of American Historian's Ellis W. Hawley prize for the best book on political economy, politics, and institutions of the modern United States, as well as the New England History Association's Best Book Award. With William J. Novak and Julian E. Zelizer, she is also a coeditor of The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (2003).
JULIAN E. ZELIZER (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) is professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. His book, Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress and the State, 1945-1975 (1998) won the Organization of American Historian's Ellis W. Hawley prize for the best book on political economy, politics, and institutions of the modern United States and the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation's D.B. Hardeman Prize for Best Publication on Congress. Zelizer is also the author of On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000 (2004) and Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security--From World War II to the War on Terrorism (2010). With William J. Novak and Meg Jacobs, he is also a coeditor of The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (2003).

Review:

'Meg Jacobs and Julian Zelizer have brought together a wide-ranging and impressive set of documents dealing with the 'Reagan Revolution.' They offer a fascinating and compulsively readable introduction to a key moment in recent American history, one that will provoke students to reflect more deeply about the important connections between the past and the present.' - Jason Scott Smith, University of New Mexico

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0312488319
• ISBN 13: 9780312488314
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258