In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the ideology of Reaganism.

The eight-year Reagan presidency not only initiated the largest peacetime military buildup in American history but also altered traditional partisan alignments

Was the so-called “Reagan Revolution” a disappointment regarding the federal systems of special-interest regulation? Many of that administration's friends a

Bastards of the Reagan Era challenges and confronts many of the difficult realities that frame America

An A-to-Z reference guide to the people, places, policies, and events significant during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.