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Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years

Haynes Johnson

Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 283 Users | 30 Reviews

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Original Title:	Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years
ISBN:	0393324346 (ISBN13: 9780393324341)
Edition Language:	English

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National bestseller: In this brilliantly readable book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the Reagan decade, when America fell from dominant world power to struggling debtor nation and when optimism turned to foreboding. In human terms and living case histories, Haynes Johnson captures the drama and tragedy of an era nurtured by greed and a morality that found virtue in not getting caught. "It is morning again in America," Reagan's campaign commercials told us, and for too long we embraced that convenient lie. Indeed, the problems that came to plague us in that decade are with us even more today, as Johnson memorably demonstrates in—his afterword, "Notes on an Era," written especially for this new paperback reissue. This book will remain a signature work of political analysis for years to come.

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Title	:	Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years
Author	:	Haynes Johnson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	June 17th 2003 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1991)
Categories	:	History. Politics. Nonfiction. North American Hi.... American History. Economics

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What really happened during the Reagan Years. No revisionist history here.

This is a depressing book if you care about the state of America. It shows how Ronald Reagan and the forces that supported him turned us toward a long, dark path that has culminated (so far) in the corrupt, racist, ignorant Trump regime. Reagan was basically a Trump, but a little nicer, a little more humble, a little more willing to listen to expert advice. But his policies, while having a gloss of "morning in America," were as cruel in their way as Trump's. Reagan played on the selfishness

Haynes Johnson does a thorough job of documenting and trying to make sense of a decade that was in many respects the ultimate reaction against the Sixties, the pay-back decade, as it were, when conservatism made its successful push to retake the political and moral stage. His sketches of the major players, from Arthur Laffer (whose infamous "Laffer Curve" did so much to persuade so many of the efficacy of supply side economics) to Reagan himself, reveal a pattern of thinking and rearrangement of

Well, all it reminds me of is how we got to the mess we are curently in in 2016. Five times since 1960 the Republican party has been caught doing things that weren't merely the usual bribery and graft of politics but treasonous. Three of those times they were legally caught with their hands in the cookie jar, and for reasons that baffle me, the Democrats would not carrry through to the kill or incarceration of the guilty parties. Why? This book centers mostly on the extreme excesses of wealth

Not exactly about Reagan's presidency but a solid overview of everything going on in the country and the world during the 80's. It did a thorough job explaining all the headlines and news coverage I remembered from being a kid that went over my head. Currently rereading. (First read about ten years ago.)

A good primer. You're going to have to go elsewhere to get in depth on any of the subjects but this is pretty good overview.

I am reading this book now.