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We should have seen it coming : from Reagan to Trump--a front-row seat to a political revolution  Cover Image Book Book

We should have seen it coming : from Reagan to Trump--a front-row seat to a political revolution / Gerald F. Seib.

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In 1980, President-Elect Ronald Reagan ushered in conservatism as the most powerful political force in America. His efforts to reshape the government with tax cuts, deregulation, increased military spending, and a more conservative social policy faltered at first. But the economy roared back, and the Reagan revolution was on. Seib shows how this conservative movement came to dominate national politics, then began to evolve into the populist movement that Donald Trump rode to power. He shows how a populist revolution was brewing-- and became a precursor of the Trump takeover. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593135150
  • ISBN: 0593135156
  • Physical Description: xv, 281 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-260) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The rise of the Reagan revolution -- Storming the gates -- Growing roots -- The Gipper -- Turning over the reins -- Newt steps in -- The best of times, the worst of times -- Conservatives ride again -- The high price of terror -- Into the wilderness -- The Tea Party erupts -- Trump storms in -- Shock waves -- What just happened? -- What now?
Subject: Conservatives > United States.
Conservatism > United States > History.
Democracy > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government > 1981-1989.
United States > Politics and government > 1989-

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Covington Branch 320.52 S457w 2020 (Text) 33126024452157 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Erlanger Branch 320.52 S457w 2020 (Text) 33126024452165 Adult Nonfiction Available -

Gerald F. Seib is the executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal, where he writes the weekly "Capital Journal" column. Previously the Washington bureau chief of the Journal, he reported on the Middle East for the Journal in the early 1980s, and covered the White House from 1987 through 1992. He has moderated three presidential debates, and interviewed every president since Ronald Reagan. He won the Merriman Smith Award for coverage of the presidency, the Aldo Beckman Award for coverage of the White House, and the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Prize. He was part of a team of reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category for their coverage of 9/11. In 2005, he won the William Allen White Foundation national citation, and in 2009 the National Press Club's award for political analysis. He appears as an analyst on CNBC, Fox News, PBS's Washington Week, CBS's Face the Nation and NBC's Meet the Press. With CNN's John Harwood, he wrote Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power.


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