Ronald Reagan, the feelgood president
In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan presided over prosperity, destroyed communism, and made Americans feel good about themselves. Is his achievement more myth than reality?
11 - 06 - 2004
Subscribers can download the ‘Reagan Package’ in PDF format from the link above. This collection includes four contributions from our debate ‘
Ronald Reagan, the feelgood president’.
Todd Gitlin on how team Bush is running Reagan’s death as a self-tribute; John Hulsman, who met him when he was 16, on why Reagan was a better Republican than today’s President; Siva Vaidhyanathan on how his generation hated growing up under President Feelgood; Godfrey Hodgson, doyen of US historians, sums up the man who persuaded America it was still morning and government was the problem.
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