Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs Episode 7: Rick Perlstein, Reaganland, America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rick Perlstein for their discussion of Reaganland.
Together they discuss the "Southernization" of American politics, the causes behind U.S. President Ronald Reagan's rise to power in the 1970s, and the way that conservatives’ cutthroat strategies to gain power remain a powerful political force today.
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Footnotes
- Biography of Barry Goldwater
- Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001)
- Biography of Richard Nixon
- Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008)
- Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 (2021)
- Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Biography of Water Cronkite
- Biography of Walter Lippmann
- New Deal
- The End of Ideology
- Biography of Daniel Bell
- Biography Lyndon B. Johnson
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Biography of Richard Rothstein
- Mason-Dixon Line
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Biography of Storm Thurmond
- Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Housing discrimination in the USA
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