Volume 28, Number 21 & 22 · January 21, 1982
The Making of Reaganism
By Tom J. Farer
The Hidden Election: Politics and Economics in the 1980 Presidential Campaign
edited by Joel Rogers, edited by Thomas Ferguson
Pantheon, 342 pp., $16.50
Portrait of an Election: The 1980 Presidential Campaign
by Elizabeth Drew
Simon and Schuster, 459 pp., $14.95
The election of 1980 and the first year of the Reagan administration have filled liberal reformers (among others) with gloom and foreboding. Dennis Wrong, a politically moderate sociologist, captured the prevailing mood when he wrote recently in Dissent:[1] 'I do not recall a time when the prospects for the left in America have looked quite so dim'—or, he later hints, the prospect for a native fascism so real, albeit still distant and faint. The concluding lines of Walter Dean Burnham's essay in The Hidden Election imply a similar anxiety about the future not simply of reform but of the values and institutions which have made reform possible.
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