Summary
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Congress and the Nation is the most authoritative reference on congressional trends, actions, and political and policy controversies. This award-winning series documents the most fiercely debated issues in recent American politics, providing a unique retrospective analysis of the policies the U.S. Congress. Organized by policy area, each chapter contains summaries of legislative activity, including bills passed, defeated, or postponed. No other authoritative source guides readers seamlessly through the policy output of the national legislature with the breadth, depth, and authority of Congress and the Nation.
Congress and the Nation is the most authoritative reference on congressional trends, actions, and political and policy controversies. This award-winning series documents the most fiercely debated issues in recent American politics, providing a unique retrospective analysis of the policies the U.S. Congress. Organized by policy area, each chapter contains summaries of legislative activity, including bills passed, defeated, or postponed. No other authoritative source guides readers seamlessly through the policy output of the national legislature with the breadth, depth, and authority of Congress and the Nation.
Congress and the Nation is the most authoritative reference on congressional trends, actions, and political and policy controversies. This award-winning series documents the most fiercely debated issues in recent American politics, providing a unique retrospective analysis of the policies the U.S. Congress. Organized by policy area, each chapter contains summaries of legislative activity, including bills passed, defeated, or postponed. No other authoritative source guides readers seamlessly through the policy output of the national legislature with the breadth, depth, and authority of Congress and the Nation.
The Reagan Presidency
The Reagan Presidency
Introduction
During President Reagan's second term, Congress clearly gained the upper hand with the White House and blunted, sometimes reversed, the waning thrust of the “Reagan Revolution.” But Ronald Reagan remained popular throughout his eight years in the White House and repeatedly confounded his critics, as well as his friends. By many assessments of the “Reagan legacy,” the 40th president steered the country away from New Deal welfarism, reasserted American primacy in the world and ushered in a long spell of prosperity. The polar opposite view was that of a genial, glib but often ill-informed president who mortgaged the nation's future with debt to underwrite a costly military buildup and foster an unrealistic “feel good” mentality in America.
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