BOOK REVIEW: Tear down this idea– Review of Gil Troy’s “The Reagan Revolution”

The Washington Times, 1-14-10 COMMUNISM: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION By Leslie Holmes Oxford University Press, $11.95, 144 pages THE SOVIET UNION: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION By Stephen Lovell Oxford University Press, $11.95, 144 pages THE REAGAN REVOLUTION: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION By Gil Troy Oxford University Press, $11.95, 168 pages Reviewed by Jeremy Lott “This [...]

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Obama and Health Care: Confronted by Critics, Haunted by History

By Gil Troy, HNN, 12-7-09 This piece was originally published in Policy Options, November 2009, pp. 25-30. It is based largely on Gil Troy’s The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2009), In pushing health care reform, President Barack Obama is confronted by contemporary critics and haunted by history. Americans are ambivalent [...]

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Obama’s Speech Tries Breaking Reagan’s Summer Curse

By Gil Troy, History News Network, 9-10-09 In his Wednesday night speech to a joint session of Congress, Barack Obama sought the perfect formula to express American attitudes toward big government. In 1981 Ronald Reagan proclaimed “government is not the solution to the problem; government is the problem.” In 1996 after his health care reform [...]

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New Book: The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction By Gil Troy

The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (Paperback) by Gil Troy (Author) Now Available for Pre-Order from Amazon.com Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Editorial Reviews Product Description “They called it the Reagan revolution,” Ronald Reagan noted in his Farewell Address. “Well, I’ll accept that, but for me it always [...]

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