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"Other than Sean Wilentz's "The Age of Reagan," Martin has created the first major historical work on this crucial decade. "The Other Eighties" is much needed opening salvo in a serious discussion about the role of dissent in this era . . . A new and exciting interpretation of this decade that successfully challenges what we think we know." --W. Scott Poole, "PopMatters" "In arguing for a 1980s that not only didn't uniformly embrace the superficial conformity of the Reagan years but actively laid groundwork for today's progressive movements, Martin does valuable work." --Kate Tuttle, "The""Boston"" Globe" "A readable stroll into the bad old days of "Piss Christ" and Jesse Helms--and guaranteed to make you dig up your Black Flag and Minor Threat tapes." --"Kirkus Reviews" "Should be required reading for strategists on the left." --David Mulcahey, "Bookforum" "A valuable picture of the complex political cross-currents that swirled in a decade too often seen simplistically as 'Morning in America.' " --"Publishers Weekly" "Before history reduces the 1980s to Reagan, Rambo, and MTV, Bradford Martin has provided a bracing and much-needed chronicle of the decade's oppositional culture. With grace and clarity, "The Other Eighties" reveals the accomplishments, limitations, and legacy of the era's often-overlooked political and social activists." --Alan Light, former editor-in-chief, "Vibe" and "Spin" magazines "Bradford Martin's fascinating and extensively researched book will take you on a revelatory trip to the other side of Reagan's 1980s." --Judith E. Smith, Professor of American Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston "Bradford Martin's pathbreaking history of cultural and political opposition in the 1980s challenges the simplistic narrative of a 'Reagan Revolution.' His concise, punchy use of primary sources to document big events like the Freeze, anti-Apartheid, and grunge will be hard to ignore. "The Other Eighties "shows how the 'long sixties' were even longer than many of us realized." --Van Gosse, author of "Rethinking the New Left: An Interpretative History" "The best history is that which looks beneath the surface of an era to discover what was happening on the lower frequencies. Readers seeking a richer, more complete understanding of the Age of Reagan should start here." --Robert Widell, Assistant Professor of History, University of Rhode Island "In this provocative and persuasive book, Bradford Martin challenges the prevailing portrait of the 1980s as an era of a conservative ascendancy. Focusing on a wide range of social and political actors--AIDS activists, the divestment movement, welfare rights organizers, post-punk performers and their audiences--Martin constructs an alternative portrait of eighties political culture. An original and thoughtful book, "The Other Eighties" is sure to prompt significant reconsideration of this crucial period in recent United States history." --Bruce J. Schulman, author of "The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics"
In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than we may remember - one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to effectively shrug off the activist politics of the 1960s and 1970s and wholeheartedly embrace his particular brand of social conservatism. But a closer look reveals that a sizable swath of Americans strongly disapproved of Reagan's policies throughout his presidency. With the Democratic Party in tatters, many expressed their dissatisfaction in unorthodox ways. Unlike the civil rights movement or flower power protesters, activists of the 1980s generally found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve hard-won victories from previous decades. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in prodding the government toward more moderate policy. On-the-ground interventionism helped to temper the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, while mock shanties constructed on college campuses shed light on tacit American funding of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Martin examines these and other small but influential movements in this concise history.
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