Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (2005)

James T. Patterson.
Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore.
New York: Oxford Universtiy Press, 2005.

Book Series: Oxford History of the United States.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com, hardcover; Amazon.com, paperback.

Author information:

• James T. Patterson (b.1935), Wikipedia.

Video: James T. Patterson

• James T. Patterson, "U.S. in the 1940s, 50s and 60s," Brown University, C-SPAN, 24 May 1997.
  Despite the title of the talk, Patterson also mentions the 1970s and 1980s.
• David M. Kennedy, James M. McPherson, Robert L. Middlekauff, and James T. Patterson, "Book Discussion on Oxford History of the United States Series," BookTV, C-SPAN, 20 September 2005.
• James T. Patterson, "Book Discussion on Restless Giant," Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington DC, BookTV, C-SPAN, 06 April 2007.
• James T. Patterson, "America at the End of the 20th Century, Part 1," The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City, 2008.

Many of the following videos come from the C-SPAN series Lectures in History. You can find many additional lectures and discussions in other C-SPAN series: The Contenders; The Presidency; American Presidents; Landmark Cases.

Video: 1970s

• Judith Stein, "Politics and Economics in the 1970s," Graduate Center, City University of New York, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 27 March 2012.
  Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Edmund Kallina, "Nixon Administration," University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 17 November 2010.
  A lecture on the Nixon administration prior to the Watergate scandal. In the professor's background comments about why Nixon was unpopular he strangely does not mention Nixon's habit of red-baiting his opponents during election campaigns, first for the U.S. House in 1946 and later for the U.S. Senate in 1950. Nor does he mention Nixon's participation in the House Un-American Activities Committee during a period of Cold War anti-communist witch hunting hysteria (Second Red Scare). The professor merely starts with Nixon's oleaginous Checkers speech; this doesn't really explain why many people found Nixon unpalatable even before the 1952 presidential election.
  Richard Nixon, Wikipedia.
  The portion of the lecture discussing the Nixon administration begins around time 17 minutes.
  
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• Melissa Harris-Perry, "Betty Ford and the Role of First Ladies," Tulane University, New Orleans, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 04 April 2012.
  The lecture begins with a survey of notable First Ladies before Betty Ford. The discussion of Betty Ford begins at time 32 minutes.
  Betty Ford, Wikipedia.
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• Bruce J. Schulman, "Jimmy Carter and the 1970s," Boston University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 24 February 2011.
  Bruce J. Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics, New York: The Free Press (Simon & Schuster Inc.), 2001; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press (Perseus Books Group), 2002.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Jimmy Carter, Wikipedia.
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• Julian E. Zelizer and Bruce J. Schulman, "Book Discussion on Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s," Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, BookTV, C-SPAN, 09 April 2008.
  Discussants: Paul Starr and Bill Berkowitz.
  Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer, editors, Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Michael McGerr, "Feminism and 1960-1970s Popular Music," Indiana University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 01 April 2014.
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• Kirsten Swinth, "Battle Over the Equal Rights Amendment," Fordham University, New York City, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 17 April 2012.
  The Equal Rights Amendment (Wikipedia) was passed by Congress (House on October 12, 1971; Senate on March 22, 1972) but was not ratified by the requisite number of states by the deadline 22 March 1979 nor by the extended deadline 30 June 1982.
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• Regina Morantz-Sanchez, "Backlash Against Women's Liberation Movement," University of Michigan, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 09 April 2013.
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• Donald T. Critchlow, "1970s Republican Revival," Arizona State University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 10 October 2013.
  • Donald T. Critchlow, The Conservative Ascendancy: How the Republican Right Rose to Power in Modern America, second edition, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books, 2007 edition; Amazon.com.]
  • Donald T. Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade, Princeton University Press, 2005.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Amy Koehlinger, "Father Divine, Jim Jones & Modern Religious Utopias," Oregon State University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 14 November 2013.
  Father Divine (c.1876-1965); International Peace Mission movement.
  Jim Jones (1931-1978); Peoples Temple, mass suicide November 1978.
  Book mentioned in the lecture:
  Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America, second edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Beverly Gage, Donna Murch, Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Robert O. Self, Heather Ann Thompson, "Social Changes of the 1970s," American Historical Association, New York City, American History TV, C-SPAN, 02 January 2015.
  Books by the panelists:
  • Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Beverly Gage, The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Donna Murch, Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, Princeton University Press, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Robert O. Self, All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s, New York: Hill and Wang (imprint of Macmillan), 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Heather Ann Thompson, Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Heather Ann Thompson, editor, Speaking Out: Activism and Protest in the 1960's and 1970's, Pearson, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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Video: 1980s

• Jeremi Suri, Doug Rossinow, Daniel T. Rodgers, Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Michael Kazin, "America in the 1980s," session title: “The American 1980s as a Historical Period: Problematizing the Standard Narrative,” American Historical Association, Boston, Massachusetts, C-SPAN, 08 January 2011.
  Papers were presented by the authors of these books:
  • Daniel T. Rodgers, Age of Fracture, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Doug Rossinow, The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s, New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Some books by the moderator and commenter:
  • Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jeremi Suri, Henry Kissinger and the American Century, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jeremi Suri, Liberty's Surest Guardian: Rebuilding Nations After War from the Founders to Obama, New York: Free Press / Simon & Schuster, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, fifth edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
    [Publisher; Google Books, 2000 edition; Amazon.com.]
  • Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History, revised edition, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Michael Kazin, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006; New York: Anchor Books, 2007 (both imprints of Random House).
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Michael Kazin, American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011; New York: Vintage Books, 2012 (both imprints of Random House).
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Haynes Johnson and Brian Lamb, "Book Discussion on Sleepwalking Through History," Booknotes, C-SPAN, 22 February 1991.
  Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Gary Sick and Brian Lamb, "Book Discussion on October Surprise," Booknotes, C-SPAN, 12 November 1991.
  Gary Sick, October Surprise: America’s Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan, New York: Crown, 1991.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Iran hostage crisis, 04 November 1979 to 20 January 1981.
  Gary Sick (b.1935).
  October Surprise conspiracy theory regarding the Iran hostages.
  October surprise, U.S. political jargon.
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• Colin Dueck, "Ronald Reagan's Foreign Policy," Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 24 February 2011.
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• Doug Rossinow, "Iran-Contra Affair," Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 26 February 2013.
  Doug Rossinow, The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s, New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Iran–Contra affair, Wikipedia.
  
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• Malcolm Byrne and Bruce Riedel, "Book Discussion on Iran-Contra," Brookings Institution, Washington DC, BookTV, C-SPAN, 04 September 2014.
  Books mentioned:
  • Malcolm Byrne, Iran-Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    The National Security Archive, The George Washington University.
    Iran–Contra affair, Wikipedia.
  • Malcolm Byrne, Bruce Riedel and others, Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979-1988, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    Iran–Iraq War, 1980-1988.
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• Richard Reeves, Stephen F. Cohen, Jack F. Matlock Jr., Lesley Stahl, "Reagan, Gorbachev, and the End of the Cold War," New York Historical Society, The Presidency, American History TV, C-SPAN, 17 March 2011.
  Introductory remarks last until time 8 minutes.
  Books by the panelists:
  • Richard Reeves, President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Stephen F. Cohen, Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jack F. Matlock Jr., Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, New York: Random House, 1995.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jack F. Matlock Jr., Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended, New York: Random House, 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jack F. Matlock Jr., Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray - And How to Return to Reality, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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Video: 1990s

• Liette Gidlow, "Civil Rights in the Early 1990s," Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 07 April 2011.
  Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
  Defense of Marriage Act, 1996.
  Same-sex marriage in the United States.
  Gulf War, 1990-91.
  Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination; Senate confirmation hearings completed October 1991.
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• Christopher McKnight Nichols, "Post Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy," Oregon State University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 12 March 2013.
  Christopher McKnight Nichols, Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Christopher McKnight Nichols, his website.
  Clinton Doctrine, Wikipedia.
  See below for a list of 1990s U.S. interventions.
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• Arthur Vanden Houten and John Young, "U.S. and U.N. Response to Rwandan Genocide," Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 17 April 2014.
  Books mentioned:
  • Samantha Power, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, New York: Basic Books (Perseus Books Group), 2002, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Roméo Dallaire, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, Toronto: Random House Canada, 2003; New York: Da Capo Press, 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Rwandan Genocide, 1994, Wikipedia.
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• John Riley, "American Interventions in Humanitarian Crises," Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 28 October 2014.
  Unified Task Force (UNITAF), Somalia, December 1992 – May 1993;
  United Nations Operation in Somalia II (UNOSOM II), March 1993 – March 1995;
  Operation Gothic Serpent, Somalia, August-October 1993;
  Battle of Mogadishu, October 1993.
  Rwandan Genocide, 1994.
  Chris Mills and Mark Bowden, Somalia: Good Intentions, Deadly Results, KR Video, Inc. (Knight Ridder), 1997.
  See below for a list of 1990s U.S. interventions.
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• Paul Berman, Frances FitzGerald, Howard Lentner, Michael Lind, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Ronald Steel, William J. Vanden Heuvel, "The Cold War, Vietnam, and a Post Communist World," City University of New York, C-SPAN, 16 May 1997.
  Books by some of the panelists:
  • Ronald Steel, Pax Americana, revised edition, Penguin Books, 1977.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, Little, Brown and Company, 1972; Back Bay Books, 2002.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Frances FitzGerald, Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Michael Lind, Vietnam, the Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict, New York: The Free Press / Simon & Schuster, 1999.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Paul Berman, A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• Erskine B. Bowles, Henry Cisneros, Mickey Kantor, Rodney E. Slater, Gene B. Sperling, Neera Tanden, "Clinton Administration Economic Polices," William J. Clinton Foundation: Clinton-Gore Economics, The Presidency, American History TV, C-SPAN, 28 October 2011.
  Presidency of Bill Clinton : The economy, Wikipedia.
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• Susan Page, Alexis Herman, Bruce Reed, Andrew Rudalevige, "Clinton Administration Domestic Policy," Symposium on the Clinton Adminstration, Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, The Presidency, American History TV, C-SPAN, 14 November 2014.
  Presidency of Bill Clinton : Legislation and programs, Wikipedia.
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• Dick J. Reavis, Mike Cox, Kerry Noble, and Doug Rossinow, "Going To Extremes: Discussion," session title: "Fringe Political Movements in America," Texas Book Festival, BookTV, C-SPAN, 15 November 1998.
  Books discussed:
  • Dick J. Reavis, The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation, New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1995; Syracuse University Press, 1998.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Mike Cox, Stand-off in Texas: "Just Call Me a Spokesman for the DPS...", Eakin Press, 1998.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Kerry Noble, Tabernacle of Hate: Why They Bombed Oklahoma City, Voyageur Publications, 1998; second edition: Tabernacle of Hate: Seduction into Right-Wing Extremism, Syracuse University Press, 2010.
    [Publisher, 2010 edition; Google Books, 1998 edition; Google Books, 2010 edition; Amazon.com, 1998 edition; Amazon.com, 2010 edition.]
  • Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Some of the events, groups, or people discussed in the video:
  • Ruby Ridge incident, March 1991 to August 1992.
  • Luby's shooting, Killeen, Texas, 16 October 1991.
  • Waco siege of the Branch Davidians, February 28 to April 19, 1993.
  • Oklahoma City bombing, 19 April 1995.
  • The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was captured 03 April 1996.
  • Republic of Texas standoff, Fort Davis, Texas, 1997.
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• Haynes Johnson, "Book Discussion on The Best of Times," Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington DC, BookTV, C-SPAN, 29 September 2001.
  Haynes Johnson, "Recent American History," National Book Festival, Washington DC, Book Fairs, C-SPAN, 12 October 2002.
  Haynes Johnson, The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years, Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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Video: Politics and Ideology

• Albert Camarillo, "Neoconservatism and Culture Wars of the 1980s and 1990s," Stanford University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 25 February 2014.
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• “The Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America,” The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 2012:
  • David Norcross, "Edmund Burke and the Origins of Modern Conservatism," 25 January 2012.
    Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Wikipedia.
  • Michael Barone, "Alexis de Tocqueville and Conservative Concepts," 08 February 2012.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), Wikipedia.
  • David Keene, "William F. Buckley Jr. and Modern Conservatism," 07 March 2012.
  • Phyllis Schlafly, "Cultural Conservatism and the Religious Right," 04 April 2012.
  • Donald Rumsfeld, "The Bush Doctrine, Compassionate Conservatism, and the War on Terror," 11 April 2012.
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Some Wikipedia Articles:

• Decade: 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s.
• Year: 1973, 1974 . . . 1980 . . . 1990 . . . 2000, 2001.
• Year in the United States: 1973, 1974 . . . 1980 . . . 1990 . . . 2000, 2001.
Historical Surveys:
• History of the United States (1964-1980).
• History of the United States (1980–91).
• History of the United States (1991–present).

Economic History:

• Post-World War II economic expansion.
• Economic history of the United States: Postwar prosperity: 1945–1973.
• Economic history of the United States: Late 20th century.
• New economy.
• Economy of the United States.
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• 1973 oil crisis.
• 1973–74 stock market crash.
• 1973–75 recession.
• The Great Inflation, 1970s.
• Whip inflation now, Ford administration slogan, 1974.
• New York City: Fiscal crisis, 1975.
• 1979 oil crisis.
• 1970s energy crisis.
• Paul Volcker appointed chairman of the board of governors for the U.S. Federal Reserve System, August 1979.
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• Deregulation 1970-2000.
• California Proposition 13 (1978), approved by California voters on 06 June 1978.
• Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, signed into law by President Carter, 24 October 1978.
• Humphrey–Hawkins Full Employment Act, signed into law by President Carter, 27 October 1978.
  This act has little to do with the actual practical employment of individuals and is more about stating general aspirational goals for U.S. government fiscal and monetary policy.
  
• Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980, signed into law by President Carter, 31 March 1980.
• Motor Carrier Act of 1980 which deregulates the U.S. trucking industry, signed into law by President Carter, 01 July 1980.
• The Staggers Rail Act deregulating U.S. railroads, enacted 14 October 1980.
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• Early 1980s recession.
• Deindustrialisation by country : United States.
• Rust Belt.
• Latin American debt crisis, early 1980s.
  (This is significant to U.S. economic history because, aside from simple geographical considerations, much of the debt was owed to, or intermediated by, U.S. banks, and thus held by U.S. parties.)
• Economic history of Mexico: 1982 crisis and recovery.
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• Reaganomics.
• Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, signed into law by President Reagan, 13 August 1981.
• PATCO August 1981 strike.
• Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1982, signed into law by President Reagan, 15 October 1982.
• Plaza Accord, 22 September 1985.
• Tax Reform Act of 1986, signed into law by President Reagan, 22 October 1986.
• Alan Greenspan appointed chairman of the board of governors for the U.S. Federal Reserve System, August 1987.
• Black Monday (1987), stock market crash, 19 October 1987.
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• 1980s oil glut.
• Savings and loan crisis, 1980s and 1990s.
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• Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990.
  In signing this law, which included some tax increases, President Bush angered his political supporters.
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• Early 1990s recession.
• North American Free Trade Agreement, effective 01 January 1994.
• Mexican peso crisis, December 1994.
• Orange County, California bankruptcy, 1994.
• 1990s United States boom.
• 1997 Asian financial crisis.
• 1998 Russian financial crisis, August 1998.
• Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, September 1998.
• Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, enacted 12 November 1999.
  Many consider the deregulatory provisions of this act to have contributed to the financial crisis of 2007-2008.
  
• Dot-com bubble, 1997-2000.
• Enron scandal, revealed October 2001.
• Early 2000s recession.

Wars:

• Cold War, 1947-1991.
• Vietnam War;
  Role of the United States in the Vietnam War.
• Operation Condor, 1975-1989.
• Central American crisis, 1970s-1990s.
  • Guatemalan Civil War, 1960-1996.
  • Salvadoran Civil War, 1979-1992.
  • Nicaraguan Revolution, 1960s-1979.
  • Contra War, 1981-1990.
• Soviet–Afghan War, 1979-1989.
• Iran–Iraq War, 1980-1988.
• Invasion of Grenada, October 1983.
• United States invasion of Panama, December 1989.
• Gulf War, 1990-1991.
• Sierra Leone Civil War, 1991-2002.
• Somali Civil War, 1980s-present.
• Yugoslav Wars, 1991-2002.

1990s U.S. Interventions:

• Sanctions against Iraq, August 1990 - May 2003.
• Iraqi no-fly zones, 1992-2003.
• Cruise missile strikes on Iraq, June 1993.
• Unified Task Force (UNITAF), Somalia, December 1992 – May 1993;
  United Nations Operation in Somalia II (UNOSOM II), March 1993 – March 1995;
  Operation Gothic Serpent, Somalia, August-October 1993;
  Battle of Mogadishu, October 1993.
• U.S. intervention in Haiti, September 1994 – March 1995.
• NATO bombing campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina, August – September 1995.
• Cruise missile strikes on Iraq, September 1996.
• Bombing of Iraq, December 1998.
• Cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan, August 1998.
• NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, March - June, 1999.

U.S. Presidential Politics:
1972: U.S. presidential election, 1972.
Richard Nixon; Spiro Agnew; Gerald Ford; Nelson Rockefeller.
George McGovern; Thomas Eagleton; Sargent Shriver.
1976: U.S. presidential election, 1976.
Jimmy Carter; Walter Mondale.
Gerald Ford; Bob Dole.
1980: U.S. presidential election, 1980.
Ronald Reagan; George H. W. Bush.
Jimmy Carter; Walter Mondale.
John B. Anderson; Patrick Lucey.
1984: U.S. presidential election, 1984.
Ronald Reagan; George H. W. Bush.
Walter Mondale; Geraldine Ferraro.
1988: U.S. presidential election, 1988.
George H. W. Bush; Dan Quayle.
Michael Dukakis; Lloyd Bentsen.
1992: U.S. presidential election, 1992.
Bill Clinton; Al Gore.
George H. W. Bush; Dan Quayle.
Ross Perot; James Stockdale.
1996: U.S. presidential election, 1996.
Bill Clinton; Al Gore.
Bob Dole; Jack Kemp.
Ross Perot; Pat Choate.
2000: U.S. presidential election, 2000.
George W. Bush; Dick Cheney.
Al Gore; Joe Lieberman.
Ralph Nader; Winona LaDuke.
Bush v. Gore, 2000.

Other books on U.S. History, post-World War II, noted in this blog:

• Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1996).
• Farber, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (1994).
• Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (1993).
• Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (2010).
• Wheen, Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia (2010).
• Ferguson, et al., editors, The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010).
• Ferguson & Rogers, Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics (1986).
• Baker, The United States since 1980 (2007).
• Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (2007).