The Reagan Manifesto

"A Time for Choosing" and its Influence
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-82009-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 151 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 236 g

This book examines how Ronald Reagan’s electrifying 1964 televised speech, “A Time For Choosing,” ignited the conservative movement within the GOP. Ronald Reagan’s televised speech, or what many conservatives today simply call “The Speech,” was a call for action, telling Americans that now was “A Time for Choosing.” “The Speech” catapulted Reagan into national politics, the California governorship, and ultimately the presidency. The themes of the speech, including anti-Communism, strong national defense, and the need to protect the average American from taxes and bureaucracy, ignited the conservative movement in the GOP, resulting over time in the sidelining of the more liberal, establishment wing of the Republican Party. The contributors in this edited volume show how Ronald Reagan’s “coming out” speech on the national stage helped set the political agenda for the next three decades.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morrison, Jeffry H.

Patterson, Eric D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: “A Time for Choosing:” The Speech’s Influence from 1964 to 2014.- The Intellectual Roots of Reagan’s Foreign Policy.- Ronald Reagan’s Continuing Legacy in European Policy Debates.- “The Speech:” Reagan, the Russians, and the Bomb.- Preserving America’s Written Constitution: Reagan's Defense of Ordered Liberty.- American Exceptionalism and the Reagan Doctrine: The Belief that Won the Cold War.- The Speech and Domestic Policy: Reagan’s Liberal Anti-Socialism.- Ideas that Travel: Coolidge, Reagan, and Conservative Economic Policy.- Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing:” A Christian Realist Reading.

Über Autor(innen)

Eric D. Patterson is Dean and Professor at the Robertson School of Government at Regent University, USA, and Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, USA.  
Jeffry H. Morrison is Professor of Government at Regent University, USA, and Director of Academics at the federal government's James Madison Foundation in Virginia, USA.