Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision
Diane Winston, "Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision"
English | ISBN: 0226824527 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 0226824527 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 6 MB
A provocative new history of how the news media facilitated the Reagan Revolution and the rise of the religious Right.
After two years in the White House, an aging and increasingly unpopular Ronald Reagan looked like a one-term president, but in 1983 something changed. Reagan spoke of his embattled agenda as a spiritual rather than a political project and cast his vision for limited government and market economics as the natural outworking of religious conviction. The news media broadcast this message with enthusiasm, and white evangelicals rallied to the president’s cause. With their support, Reagan won reelection and continued to dismantle the welfare state, unraveling a political consensus that stood for half a century.
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