Historian explores Reagan’s influence
By Dave
May 8th, 2008 | Leave a comment
As this 2008 presidential election contest unfolds, Princeton historian Sean Wilentz takes us back two decades plus in “The Age of Reagan,” which hit bookstores Tuesday. Subtitled “A History, 1974-2008,” the book recounts how profoundly Reagan reshaped American politics, bringing once-obscure conservatism to a become dominant force, at times, in politics and policy. He traces the beginning of this ascendency of conservatism to the downfall of Richard Nixon, with a few ebbs and flows since.
True, Reagan could be a polarizing figure, loved by conservatives and loathed by liberals.
Publisher Harper Collins said at its Web site: “A conservative hero in a conservative age, Reagan has been so admired by a minority of historians and so disliked by the others that it has been difficult to evaluate his administration with detachment. Drawing on numerous primary documents that have been neglected or only recently released to the public, as well as on emerging historical work, Wilentz offers invaluable revelations about conservatism’s ascendancy and the era in which Reagan was the pre-eminent political figure.”
“The Age of Reagan,” ISBN 9780060744809, is on sale now.
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