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The Conservative Transformation
John Ehrman, The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan (2005); Samuel G. Freedman, The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved From Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (1996); John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (2004); U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census of Population, 1990; Vincent Virga, The Eighties: Images of America (1992).
David Chidester, Patterns of Power: Religion and Politics in American Culture (1988); Erling Jorstad, Holding Fast/Pressing On: Religion in America in the 1980s (1990); R. Laurence Moore, Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture (1994); Garry Wills, Under God: Religion and American Politics (1990).
Paul Boyer, ed., Reagan as President: Contemporary Views of the Man, His Politics, and His Policies (1990); Lou Cannon, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (1991); Bob Colacello, Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911-1980 (2004); Ronnie Dugger, On Reagan: The Man and His Presidency (1983); Fred I. Greenstein, ed., The Reagan Presidency: An Early Assessment (1983); Godfrey Hodgson, The World Turned Right Side Up: A History of the Conservative Ascendency in America (1997); Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking Through History: America Through the Reagan Years (1991); Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001); Edmund Morris, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (1999); William E. Pemberton, Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan (1998); Michael Schaller and George Rising, The Republican Ascendancy: American Politics, 1968-2001 (2002); Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson and Martin Anderson, eds., Reagan's Path to Victory: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision (2004); Gil Troy, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (2005); Jules Tygiel, Ronald Reagan and the Triumph of American Conservatism (2005); Garry Wills, Reagan's America: Innocents at Home (1985).
Colin Campbell, S.J. and Bert A. Rockman, eds., The Bush Presidency: First Appraisals (1991); Herbert S. Parmet, George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee (1997).
An End to Social Reform
Rodolfo Acuña, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, 4th ed. (2000); Stephen Cornell, The Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence (1988); Roger Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life, revised edition (2002); Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991); John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, 8th ed. (2000); David G. Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Identity (1995); Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (1992); Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (1985); Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut, Immigrant America: A Portrait, 2nd ed. (1996); David M. Reimers, Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America (1985); Paul James Rutledge, The Vietnamese Experience in America (1992); Al Santoli, New Americans: An Oral History: Immigrants and Refugees in the U.S. Today (1988); Peter Skerry, Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority (1993); Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993) and A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, With Voices (1998); Studs Terkel, Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (1992); Reed Ueda, Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History (1994); David Hurst Thomas, Jay Miller, Richard White, Peter Nabokov, and Philip J. Deloria, The Native Americans: An Illustrated History (1993); Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr, eds., Ethnic Los Angeles (1996); Helen Zia, Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People (2000).
Economic and Demographic Change
Robert M. Collins, More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America (2000); Kathryn Marie Dudley, The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America (1994); Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (1997); Jacqueline Jones, American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor (1998) and The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present (1992); Michael B. Katz, The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare (1990); Katherine S. Newman, Falling from Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class (1988); James T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century (2000); Kevin P. Phillips, The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath (1990); Juliet B. Schor, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (1991); John C. Teaford, Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest (1993).
Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff, What Do Unions Do? (1984); Arthur B. Shostak, Robust Unionism: Innovations in the Labor Movement (1991).
Carl Abbott, The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West (1993); Timothy Egan, Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West (1998); John M. Findlay, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940 (1992); William G. Robbins, Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West (1994); Richard White, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West (1991).
Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War
George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed (1998); Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987); Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1996, 8th ed. (1993) and Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (1983); Paul Lettow, Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (2005); Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended (2004); Robert Scheer, With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush & Nuclear War (1982); Laura Silber and Alan Little, Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (1996); Strobe Talbott, The Russians and Reagan (1984); Allan M. Winkler, The Cold War: A History in Documents (2000).
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