Morning in America: how Ronald Reagan invented the 1980s

Ronald Reagan's defining vision for the 1980s

and America

1980: Cleveland; "There you go again!" Defeating defeatism

and Jimmy Carter

1981: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; The Ronald Reagan show, the new dynasty, and David Stockman's Reaganomics

1982: Hill Street; The other America's blues

1983: Beaufort, South Carolina; The big chill and the great reconciliation: where the sixties meet the eighties

1984: Los Angeles; The wizard of America's Id chooses patriotism over politics

1985: Brooklyn, New York; Bill Cosby's multicultural America meets Ronald Reagan's celebrity presidency

1986: Wall Street; The wild, wild east and the Reagan money culture

1987: Mourning in America; Fiascos at home and abroad

1988: Stanford; The culture wars: closing and opening the American mind

1989: Kennebunkport, Maine; The Bush restoration: kinder, gentler, but still Reaganite

1990: Boston; First night, new decade: why so blue?