Age of Reagan

<p>The past thirty-five years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s and temporarily reversed in the 1990s a powerful surge from the right dominated American politics and government from 1974 to 2008. In <em>The Age of Reagan</em> Sean Wilentz one of our nation's leading historians accounts for how a conservative movement once deemed marginal managed to seize power and hold it and describes the momentous consequences that followed. </p><p>Vivid authoritative and illuminating from start to finish <em>The Age of Reagan</em> is a groundbreaking chronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon.</p>