Description: Righting the American Dream : How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision, Hardcover by Winston, Diane, ISBN 0226824527, ISBN-13 9780226824529, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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. In Righting the American Dream, Diane Winston reveals how support for Reagan emerged from a new religious vision of American identity circulating in the popular press. Through four key events—the “evil empire” speech, AIDS outbreak, invasion of Grenada, and rise in American poverty rates—Winston shows that many journalists uncritically adopted Reagan’s religious rhetoric and ultimately mainstreamed otherwise unpopular evangelical ideas about individual responsibility. The result is a provocative new account of how Reagan together with the press turned America to the right and initiated a social revolution that continues today.
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Book Title: Righting the American Dream : How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Righting the American Dream : How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism, Religion, Politics & State
Item Weight: 18.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Religion, Political Science, History
Author: Diane Winston
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
