The feelings and fantasies shared by Americans during Ronald Reagan's presidency. Beginning with a psychobiography of Reagan, the book provides a month by month analysis of media imagery showing paranoid fears of a nation about to collapse, in contrast to the actual strong economic and military position of America. The resulting recession, the trillions of dollars spent in military buildup and the various foreign policy crises are demonstrated to be motivated by unconscious political psychodynamics and group-fantasies of most Americans during the Eighties.
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Lloyd deMause is Director of The Institute for Psychohistory, Editor of The Journal of Psychohistory, President of the International Psychohistorical Association, and author of "The History of Childhood" and "Foundations of Psychohistory."
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"From the very beginning, something seemed to be out of control in Reagan's America. If ever there was a time in history when America should have felt strong and happy, it was at the beginning of the 1980s. However, our recent successes seemed to make us feel just terrible. Never before in history had a nation so strong and wealthy felt so weak and impoverished. Ronald Reagan was elected president in what could only be described as an atmosphere of crisis, with the media everywhere filled with predictions of dangers of collapse."
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An excellant book that really gets into the mind of Reagan and America. It is well written and provides a fresh insight into the terible 80's and the Reagan Administration. It also gives us a peek into what is happening with our newest lunatic president G.W.
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Pure trash,
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Written by an author with an obvious axe to grind about Reagan, don't waste your money, if you're a liberal that means don't waste your welfare on this book
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- Childhood and History in America by Glenn Davis in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Education of David Stockman by William Greider in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud on page 40, and Back Matter
- Star Wars by Bowman on page 133, and Back Matter
- Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President by Jimmy Carter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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