| International Standard Book Number |
9780593300206
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593300203
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| Personal Name |
Kaufman, Jonathan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
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| Title Statement |
When America roared : how the 1980s saved, then broke, the country--and led us to today / Jonathan Kaufman.
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| Imprint |
New York, NY : Viking, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
pages cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
"My nose pressed up against the glass" -- The believer -- Reinvention -- "Sometimes a good leader has to be a good butcher" -- In the wilderness -- The long game -- Living in the material world -- Mr. Marriage -- On the road to fair and balanced -- Awakenings -- Ten years, ten months, ten weeks, ten days -- Reckonings.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"The panoramic story of the 1980s, exploring the triumphs and failures of the decade that shaped the 21st century more than any other, from a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who witnessed the transformations firsthand In January 1980, America seemed broken. Inflation raged. Interest rates topped 20 percent. Americans were held hostage in Iran. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan with impunity. Japan was eating American manufacturing alive. Three networks controlled what Americans watched. China had been closed for 30 years. Ten years later, everything had changed. The economy was booming. The Soviet Empire was collapsing. American businesses were competitive again. In this immersive, character-driven narrative, Jonathan Kaufman lays bare the contending ideologies-and people-who battled for control of business, media and politics in the 1980s, shaping the way we live today. As Ronald Reagan and conservatives pummeled the Democratic party, as Jack Welch redefined leadership at Fortune 500 companies, and as deregulation spearheaded by Mark Fowler allowed television to become the hundreds of specialized and partisan channels we watch now, the groundwork was laid for our current economic and political conflicts. The decade also launched transformative social and political movements. Karen Nussbaum and Jane Fonda galvanized a struggling women's movement, Evan Wolfson spearheaded the gay community's legal fight against a hostile government, and Barack Obama cut his teeth as a community organizer in Chicago-all building long-lasting movements whose success progressives can learn from today. From pivotal moments in board rooms and court rooms, to cultural touchstones like the birth of hip hop and of conservative talk radio, as well as the author's eyewitness experiences in Tiananmen Square and Prague, When America Roared is the riveting story of how the 1980s built the world we live in, for better and for worse. It is the decade that made us-and the key to understanding where we go from here"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nineteen eighties
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nineteen eighties.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Economic history
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Politics and government
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Social conditions
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Economic conditions 1981-2001.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States History 1969-
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Politics and government 1981-1989.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Social conditions 1980-2020.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
History
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