Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

Episode 7: Rick Perlstein, Reaganland, America's Right Turn 1976-1980

07 Sep 2021

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Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rick Perlstein for their discussion of Reaganland. Together they discuss the "Southernization" of American politics, the causes behind U.S. President Ronald Reagan's rise to power in the 1970s, and the way that conservatives’ cutthroat strategies to gain power remain a powerful political force today.The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.FootnotesBiography of Barry GoldwaterBefore the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001)Biography of Richard NixonNixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008)Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 (2021)Biography of Franklin D. RooseveltBiography of Water CronkiteBiography of Walter LippmannNew DealThe End of IdeologyBiography of Daniel BellBiography Lyndon B. JohnsonCivil Rights Act of 1964Biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower Biography of Richard RothsteinMason-Dixon LineBrown v. Board of EducationBiography of Storm ThurmondBiography of Martin Luther King Jr.Housing discrimination in the USABiography of Ronald Reagan United Nations Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Make America great againBiography of Bill Clinton⭐️ Thank you for listening!➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org 🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends! 📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

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3ª PARTE | 17 DIC 2025 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

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13:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

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