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CHAPTER THIRTY: THE CONSERVATIVE ASCENDANCY, 1974–1991
THE OVEREXTENDED SOCIETY
A Troubled Economy
Blue-Collar Blues
Sunbelt/Snowbelt Communities
"Lean Years" Presidents: Ford and Carter
COMMUNITIES AND POLITICS
The New Urban Politics
The City and the Neighborhood
The Endangered Environment
Small-Town America
THE NEW CONSERVATISM
The New Right
Anti-ERA, Antiabortion
“The Me Decade”
ADJUSTING TO A NEW WORLD
A Thaw in the Cold War
Foreign Policy and “Moral Principles”
(Mis)Handling the Unexpected
The Iran Hostage Crisis
Carter's "Crisis of Confidence"
Election of 1980REAGAN REVOLUTION
The Great Communicator
Reaganomics
The Election of 1984
Recession, Recovery, Fiscal Crisis
BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES
Celebration of Wealth
A Two-Tiered Society
The Feminization of Poverty
Epidemics: Drugs, AIDS, Homelessness
REAGAN’S FOREIGN POLICY
The Evil Empire
The Reagan Doctrine and Central America
Glasnost and Arms Control
Iran-Contra Scandal