monkerud wrote: > <snip>. I have yet to see a thorough going critque of > Ronnie Reagan and his boys, his reaction to the movement that most of us > worked to build, his support of corrupt dictatorships around the world, > including the murderous Contras, the support of drugs where they would keep > down internal movments against governments, and the increase of the US > national debt, to name a few. I agree with Carrol's point that the focus on Reagan can be overdone --i.e., he wasn't the source of "the problem,' just a highly effective propagandist for it and a manifestation of it. But I have written some about the 60s-bashing movement of which Reagan's years were part --in an article published in the Irish Journal of American Studies. Not too accessible, probably, so I could send a paper copy if you (monkeyrud) or someone wanted one. A related treatment is Alex Carey's book on "Taking the Risk out of Democracy" U.Illinois Press, 1997. This is a piece of my book project on media culture & 60s revisionism.... There is relevant stuff in this history to the DH flap, not that I want to contribute to THAT! Ted Morgan
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