| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xix, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-225) and index. |
| Contents |
Calling to halt : the nuclear freeze campaign -- The Central American solidarity movement : opposing secret wars in the backyard -- "Unsightly huts" : shanties and the divestment movement -- Popular culture and the culture wars -- Noise from underground : post-punk music, culture, and politics -- Fighting the power : the response of African American politics and culture -- Fighting the backlash : the many paths of feminism -- The shock troops of direct action : ACT UP confronts the AIDS crisis. |
| Summary |
Unlike the civil-rights- and Vietnam-era protesters, activists of the 1980s often found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve the hard-won victories of the previous decades. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in effecting change in areas from professional life to popular culture, while beating back an even more forceful political shift to the right. -- |
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Martin paints an indelible portrait of these and other influential but often overlooked movements: from on-the-ground efforts to constrain the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, to mock shanties constructed on college campuses to shed light on corporate Americas role in supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa. He gives us a clearer, richer perspective on a turbulent decade in American life. --Book Jacket. |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1981-1989 |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-1993.
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| Chronological Term |
1989-1993 |
| Subject |
Reagan, Ronald -- Adversaries.
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Reagan, Ronald. |
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Enemies. |
| Added Title |
Other 80s |
| ISBN |
9780809074617 hardcover |
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0809074613 hardcover |
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