Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980 - Hardcover

Kalman, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393076385 ISBN 13: 9780393076387

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

On the face of it, the Ford-Carter years seem completely forgettable. They were years of weak presidential leadership and national drift. Yet, as Laura Kalman shows in this absorbing narrative history, the contours of our contemporary politics took shape during these years. This was the incubation period for a powerful movement on the right that was to triumph with Ronald Reagan s election in 1980. These years also marked the coming of age of the social movements of the 1960s, as their causes moved from the streets to the courts for mediation. Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action and the scope of privacy rights had immense social and political impact. The nation experienced an energy crisis, a sharp economic downturn, and a collision with fundamentalism in Iran that set the terms for coming crises. Kalman s navigation of this eventful political and social terrain is expert and riveting.

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Laura Kalman is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a member of the California Bar, and a past president of the American Society for Legal History. She is the author of acclaimed books in American political and legal history.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393076385
• ISBN 13: 9780393076387
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 473
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