J. Kelly Robison

The Politics of Nostalgia: The Reagan Era

  1. The Great Communicator
    1. New Deal Liberal to Hard-Line Conservative
    2. The Role of a Lifetime
  2. Reaganomics
    1. Supply-Side Economics
    2. Cutting Federal Spending
      1. Tax-Cuts
      2. Deregulation
      3. Down-Sizing
    3. Recovery
  3. The Last Cold Warrior
    1. Confronting the USSR
      1. Escalating the Arms Race
      2. Summitry
    2. Containing Communism in the Americas
      1. Nicaragua
      2. El Salvador
      3. Grenada
  4. The Teflon President
    1. The Sleaze Factor
    2. The Iran-Contra Affair

Study Terms:

Christian Coalition Moral Majority Reaganomics Supply-Side economics
Tax Reform Act of 1986 David Stockman James Watt Lauffer Curve
Michael Gorbachov SDI (Star Wars) Contras Grenada
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Savings and Loan Scandal Irangate

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