The past thirty-five years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s
and temporarily reversed in the 1990s, a powerful surge from the right dominated American politics and government
from 1974 to 2008. In The Age of Reagan, Sean Wilentz, one of our nation's leading historians, accounts for how
a conservative movement once deemed marginal managed to seize power and hold it, and describes the momentous consequences
that followed.
Vivid, authoritative, and illuminating from start to finish, The Age of Reagan is a groundbreaking chronicle of
America's political history since the fall of Nixon.