Reaganland av Rick Perlstein

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<b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020</b><BR><BR><b>From the bestselling author of <i>Nixonland </i>and <i>The Invisible Bridge </i>comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.</b><BR><BR>Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics. With the saga’s final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement. <BR><BR>In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Ford’s defeat, too old to make another run. His comeback was fueled by an extraordinary confluence: fundamentalist preachers and former segregationists reinventing themselves as militant crusaders against gay rights and feminism; business executives uniting against regulation in an era of economi