Volume 35, Number 12 · July 21, 1988
Reagan's Victims
By Christopher Lasch
The New Politics of Old Values
by John Kenneth White
University Press of New England, 188 pp., $9.95 (paper)
The Reagan years can best be characterized as the age of evasion. At a time when the inescapable limits of American national power and economic growth have become increasingly difficult to ignore, Reagan has discredited talk about those limits. He has managed to equate acknowledgment of the country's troubles with disloyalty to the American dream. His war against pessimism is the secret of his political success, at least in the short run. But it is also the key to his failure to bring about a political realignment or to set the country on a new course.
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