Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980
An authoritative history of the right turn in American national politics during the Ford-Carter years. On the face of it, the Ford-Carter years seem completely forgettable. They were years of weak presidential leadership and national drift. Yet, as Laura Kalman shows in this absorbing narrative history, the contours of our contemporary politics took shape during these years. This was the incubation period for a powerful movement on the right that was to triumph with Ronald Reaganas election in 1980. These years also marked the coming of age of the social movements of the 1960s, as their causes moved from the streets to the courts for mediation. Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action and the scope of privacy rights had immense social and political impact. The nation experienced an energy crisis, a sharp economic downturn, and a collision with fundamentalism in Iran that set the terms for coming crises. Kalmanas navigation of this eventful political and social terrain is expert and riveting.good factory jobs that had enabled union men to buy houses, perhaps even lakeside cabins, and send their children to college had disappeared. aRather ... Ultimately, in 1975, for example, the unemployment rate in Florida was 11.4 percent; in California, 9.9 percent. ... Inflation made Motor City models more expensive than the new Volkswagen Rabbits or Honda Civics, both of which drove more thananbsp;...
| Title | : | Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980 |
| Author | : | Laura Kalman |
| Publisher | : | W. W. Norton & Company - 2010-06-28 |
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