Morning in America Troy, Gil
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Did America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often "yes." InMorning in ...America, Gil Troy argues that the Great Communicator was also the Great Conciliator. His pioneering and lively reassessment of Ronald Reagan's legacy takes us through the 1980s in ten year-by-year chapters, integrating the story of the Reagan presidency with stories of the decade's cultural icons and watershed moments-from personalities to popular television shows.
One such watershed moment was the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. With the trauma of Vietnam fading, the triumph of America's 1983 invasion of tiny Grenada still fresh, and a reviving economy, Americans geared up for a festival of international harmony that-spurred on by an entertainment-focused news media, corporate sponsors, and the President himself-became a celebration of the good old U.S.A. At the Games' opening, Reagan presided over a thousand-voice choir, a 750-member marching band, and a 90,000-strong teary-eyed audience singing "America the Beautiful!" while waving thousands of flags.
Reagan emerges more as happy warrior than angry ideologue, as a big-picture man better at setting America's mood than implementing his program. With a vigorous Democratic opposition, Reagan's own affability, and other limiting factors, the eighties were less counterrevolutionary than many believe. Many sixties' innovations went mainstream, from civil rights to feminism. Reagan fostered a political culture centered on individualism and consumption-finding common ground between the right and the left.
Written with verve,Morning in Americais both a major new look at one of America's most influential modern-day presidents and the definitive story of a decade that continues to shape our times.
Identity Zionism as a Mature Zionist Approach to Israel Education Israel Education should be layered, accurate, factual, historical, and able to withstand the most exacting, objective scrutiny. But ...Israel Education, like all forms of Jewish education, should also instill pride, foster a sense of belonging, and inspire. ,Israel Education should cultivate a sense of Jewish citizenship, urging students, in Israel and throughout the Jewish world to take responsibility for themselves and their people. To achieve that, this article advances a vision of "Identity Zionism," emphasizing that Zionism is not just a political stance or a movement, but a journey of the Jewish soul from deep from within the Jewish soul - and tradition. This approach is historically valid - just as Theodor Herzl's Political Zionism addressed the Jewish Problems of the 1890s - anti-Semitism and assimilation - Identity Zionism addresses the most pressing Jewish problem - and Western problem of today - what the sociologist Emil Durkheim called "anomie." Going far beyond Israel advocacy, Identity Zionism offers Jews a sense of community and a sense of purpose, while also respecting them as individuals. In so doing, Identity Zionism resonates with some of the latest analyses of what young modern Westerners are seeking, be they Jewish or non-Jewish.
A critical look at American Ambassador to the UN Daniel Patrick Moynihan's valiant stand against its 1975 declaration of Zionism as a form of racism shows just how much -- and how little -- ...Moynihan's moment accomplished, and how relevant it remains today.
The UN General Assembly's 1975 "Zionism is Racism" resolution culminated a decades-long shift in global power dynamics. The Israeli Foreign Ministry's internal debates about how forcefully to oppose ...the resolution shows to what extent Soviet propagandists had stirred Holocaust-related fears by infusing anti-Zionism with allegations of racism. The diplomatic dustup, especially among African countries, reveals the multi-dimensionality of the Cold War and the Arab-Israeli conflict. In boosting the New Anti-Semitism, the UN fell in American esteem. This illuminating episode demonstrates the power of going public: how the General Assembly could cause disproportionate harm and two individuals could do much good.
The UN General Assembly's 1975 “Zionism is Racism” resolution culminated a decades-long shift in global power dynamics. The Israeli Foreign Ministry's internal debates about how forcefully to oppose ...the resolution shows to what extent Soviet propagandists had stirred Holocaust-related fears by infusing anti-Zionism with allegations of racism. The diplomatic dustup, especially among African countries, reveals the multi-dimensionality of the Cold War and the Arab-Israeli conflict. In boosting the New Anti-Semitism, the UN fell in American esteem. This illuminating episode demonstrates the power of going public: how the General Assembly could cause disproportionate harm and two individuals could do much good.
The Puritans were "Bigots or Builders," the American Revolution was "Revolutionary or Nonrevolutionary," the Constitution reflected "Conflict or Consensus," the Civil War was "Repressible or ...Irrepressible," and the New Deal, "Revolutionary or Conservative." ...even while trying to escape the Presidential Synthesis, we felt stuck in a pre-digital RSS feed-the Roosevelt Superhero Syndrome. ...rather than celebrating stories like the one about how a mortal man paralyzed by polio rose to tame a Great Depression and win a World War, today's scholars often report how feeble recent presidents seem in the face of the country's mounting challenges.
