{"product_id":"9781400849307","title":"Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's","description":"\u003cp\u003eDid America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often \"yes.\" In \u003ci\u003eMorning in America\u003c\/i\u003e, Gil Troy argues that the Great Communicator was also the Great Conciliator. His pioneering and lively reassessment of Ronald Reagan's legacy takes us through the 1980s in ten year-by-year chapters, integrating the story of the Reagan presidency with stories of the decade's cultural icons and watershed moments-from personalities to popular television shows.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e One such watershed moment was the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. With the trauma of Vietnam fading, the triumph of America's 1983 invasion of tiny Grenada still fresh, and a reviving economy, Americans geared up for a festival of international harmony that-spurred on by an entertainment-focused news media, corporate sponsors, and the President himself-became a celebration of the good old U.S.A. At the Games' opening, Reagan presided over a thousand-voice choir, a 750-member marching band, and a 90,000-strong teary-eyed audience singing \"America the Beautiful!\" while waving thousands of flags.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Reagan emerges more as happy warrior than angry ideologue, as a big-picture man better at setting America's mood than implementing his program. With a vigorous Democratic opposition, Reagan's own affability, and other limiting factors, the eighties were less counterrevolutionary than many believe. Many sixties' innovations went mainstream, from civil rights to feminism. Reagan fostered a political culture centered on individualism and consumption-finding common ground between the right and the left.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Written with verve, \u003ci\u003eMorning in America\u003c\/i\u003e is both a major new look at one of America's most influential modern-day presidents and the definitive story of a decade that continues to shape our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121566990576,"sku":"9781400849307","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400849307_p0.jpg?v=1763714246","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400849307","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}