Sleepwalking Through History

Johnson, Haynes

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Author
Johnson, Haynes
Publish Date
06/01/2003
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
NORTON
Subtitle
America in the Reagan Years
Number of Pages
528
Edition
With a New Afterword
ISBN-10
0393324346
ISBN-13
9780393324341
SKU
9780393324341

Description

"Elegant prose, devastating insight and a keen historical perspective."―Cleveland Plain Dealer National bestseller: In this brilliantly readable book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the Reagan decade, when America fell from dominant world power to struggling debtor nation and when optimism turned to foreboding. In human terms and living case histories, Haynes Johnson captures the drama and tragedy of an era nurtured by greed and a morality that found virtue in not getting caught.

"It is morning again in America," Reagan's campaign commercials told us, and for too long we embraced that convenient lie. Indeed, the problems that came to plague us in that decade are with us even more today, as Johnson memorably demonstrates in―his afterword, "Notes on an Era," written especially for this new paperback reissue. This book will remain a signature work of political analysis for years to come. 32 b/w illustrations