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Introduction : the 80s as a decade / Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell

Ronald W. Reagan : redefining the presidency / Jeffery B. Cook

Reagan revives FBI spying / Ivan Greenberg

The "real" right turn : the Reagan Supreme Court / Scott A. Merriman

Privatizing the Leviathan state : a "Reaganomic" legacy / Robert P. Weiss

"Airlines? Lousy unions" : airline workers in the era of deregulation and hostile takeover / Jana K. Lipman

Triumph of "the Gipper" and the Democratic Party malaise in the 1980s / Thomas F. Schaller

The Christian right's traditionalist jeremiad : piety and politics in the age of Reagan / Andrew R. Murphy

New right, new history, common ground : populism and the past / Jessie Swigger

An army of one in 1:18 scale : the profit of patriotism in G.I. Joe / Demian Ryder

"Fixing" the fifties : Alex P. Keaton and Marty McFly / Michael Dwyer

How Broadway has cared : the AIDS epidemic and the Great White Way / Virginia Anderson.

Counterpublic art and social practice / Philip Glahn

Date rape and sexual politics / Caryn E. Neumann

A culture in panic : day care abuse scandals and the vulnerability of children / N'Jai-An Patters

What's class got to do with it? : facets of Tracy Chapman through song / Heather E. Harris

Reading MTV: proliferation of United States culture in the age of globalization / Suzuko Morikawa

The United States and apartheid / Paul M. Pressley

The opening of China and the evolution of China-U.S. cross-cultural understanding / James Schnell

U.S. foreign policy in Latin America on film : the case of Salvador / Kristin Sorensen

Cold War crucible : the Berlin Wall and American exceptionalism / Kirk Tyvela

Fear of a Black planet : Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Eddie Murphy and the globalization of Black masculinity / Reynaldo Anderson, Jason Thompson, and Nikita Harris

Matter and Mammon : fiction in the age of Reagan / Alan Bilton

Alternative for alternative's sake : progressive college radio's programming struggles / David Uskovich

"Life in marvelous times" : commemorative narratives of the golden era in hip hop culture / James Braxton Peterson

"Do we get to win this time?" : movies, mythology, and political culture in Reagan country / Stephen McVeigh.

Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.

United States > History > 1969-

United States > Politics and government > 1981-1989.

United States > Social conditions > 1980-

United States > Foreign relations > 1981-1989.