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Although conservatism has much older roots in American history, the modern movement began to gel in the mid-1930s when intellectuals and politicians collaborated with businessmen to oppose the liberalism of the New Deal led by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, newly energized labor unions and big-city Democratic machines.
The period from 1981 to 1989 was among the most prosperous in American history, with 17 million new jobs created. [225] The 1980s also saw the founding of The Washington Times, a newspaper influential in the conservative movement. Reagan was said to have read the paper every morning, and the paper had close ties to multiple Republican ...
The Reagan era or the Age of Reagan is a periodization of recent American history used by historians and political observers to emphasize that the conservative "Reagan Revolution" led by President Ronald Reagan in domestic and foreign policy had a lasting impact.
A history of environmental politics since 1945 (2000). Hayward, Steven F. The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980–1989 (2010) detailed narrative from conservative perspective; Johns, Andrew L. ed. A Companion to Ronald Reagan (2015), 34 essays by scholars emphasizing historiography excerpt and text search
billionaire industrialist and donor to conservative organizations and candidates [141] [147] Richard Land: 1946– former lobbyist for the Southern Baptist Convention [149] Robert Mercer: 1946– donor to conservative organizations such as Breitbart News [150] Franklin Graham: 1952– evangelist and political activist [151] Tony Perkins: 1963–
Editor’s Note: The CNN Original Series “Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game” examines the tenuous global geopolitics during the Cold War through the lens of two notorious double agents: Oleg ...
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) indicated in an interview at The Capital Times Idea Fest in Madison, Wisc., that conservatives could end up forming a new kind of conservative party, arguing that ...
1980 – The Refugee Act is signed into law, reforming United States immigration law and admitted refugees on systematic basis for humanitarian reasons; 1980 – The Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington on 18 May kills 57. 1980 – U.S. presidential election, 1980: Ronald Reagan is elected president, with George H. W. Bush elected vice president