"Building on Arthur Hertzberg's classic, The Zionist Idea, Gil Troy explores the backstory, dreams, and legacies of more than 170 passionate Jewish visionaries--quadruple Hertzberg's original number, and now including women, mizrachim, and others -- from the 1800s to today." -- …
Living in the eighties
by Cannato, Vincent J., Troy, Gil
fromViewpoints on American culture
Living in the eighties
by Cannato, Vincent J., Troy, Gil
fromViewpoints on American culture
"Some see the 1980s as a Golden Age, a "Morning in America" when Ronald Reagan revived America's economy, reoriented American politics, and restored Americans' faith in their country and in themselves. Others see the 1980s as a new "Gilded Age," an era that was selfish, superfic…
Living in the eighties
by Cannato, Vincent J., Troy, Gil
fromViewpoints on American culture
Living in the Eighties
by Cannato, Vincent J., Troy, Gil
fromViewpoints on American culture
Some see the 1980s as a Golden Age, a "Morning in America" when Ronald Reagan revived America's economy, reoriented American politics, and restored Americans' faith in their country and in themselves. Others see the 1980s as a new "Gilded Age," an era that was selfish, superfici…
Living in the eighties
by Cannato, Vincent J., Troy, Gil
fromViewpoints on American culture
"Some see the 1980s as a Golden Age, a "Morning in America" when Ronald Reagan revived America's economy, reoriented American politics, and restored Americans' faith in their country and in themselves. Others see the 1980s as a new "Gilded Age," an era that was selfish, superfic…
Chronicles the political events of the 1980s, offering a year-by-year account of the economic and cultural changes that took place during Ronald Reagan's two terms in the White House.
Did 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 "Morning in America", Gil Troy argues that the Great Communicator was also the Great Conciliator.…