RobertBuzzanco-TheStruggleForAmerica-NunnMcginty(2019)

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 527 next 20 percent of income earners saw a small rise in wealth during the 1980 ...

528 ChaPter^10 MoRninG [oR MouRninG] in aMeRica: centRal aMeRica and iRan-contRa One key element of Reagan’s foreign policy actu ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 529 Augusto Sandino, a national hero killed by the government and U.S. marines i ...

530 ChaPter^10 generally supported the invasion, which the Administration promoted as an effort to provide greater security in a ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 531 The scandal began when Reagan asked new NSC director John Poindexter and his ...

532 ChaPter^10 abduct additional American citizens. Sure enough, three more hostages were taken to replace the three released. S ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 533 before his trial. Although several laws had been broken and the American peo ...

534 ChaPter^10 the U.S. had done from the Cold War forward, the government would use military spending to help the economy, use ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 535 over 100 percent. Among the weapons acquired with this spending were an upgr ...

536 ChaPter^10 survive. So Gorbachev came up with two plans. With perestroika he would restructure the economy, allowing more pr ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 537 in the three years between 1985-88, the two leaders would meet 4 times and t ...

538 ChaPter^10 Cultural Resistance in the Time of Reagan Ronald Reagan evoked strong feelings in virtually every American. He wa ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 539 but one of the first was a trio of African American brothers from Detroit ca ...

540 ChaPter^10 song about their hatred of police, “This fucking city is run by pigs/They take the rights away from all the kids/ ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 541 acted videos, and lots of dancing. Perhaps no one took advantage of MTV like ...

542 ChaPter^10 vant to African Americans. Rap, as Chuck D called it, was the “CNN of the streets,” a source of news for Blacks m ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 543 for him and the Democratic Party. Instead, Clinton, like Reagan and Bush, wo ...

544 ChaPter^10 Clinton made much of this possible not by traditional Democratic policies based on Keynesianism or even working w ...

Power, Lost and Found: America At Century’s End 545 however, the biggest economic powers, like the U.S., controlled the WTO and ...

546 ChaPter^10 leader for financial deregulation and not just free but, in essence, reckless markets. During Greenspan’s time at ...