Sleepwalking Through History

✍ Scribed by Haynes Johnson

• Publisher: Anchor
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 538
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This national best-seller brilliantly analyzes America in the 1980s from the election of Ronald Reagan through to the end of the decade.  The author points a vivid portrait not only of Reagan's presidency, but also of the Iran-Contra affair, the boom times on Wall Street and the religious revival led by Swaggart, Bakker et al.

✦ Table of Contents

PROLOGUE
BOOK ONE: WASHINGTON - JAN. 20, 1981
1. THE CAPITAL
2. THE LOSER
3. THE WINNER
4. THE NEW AMERICA
5. THE NEW CONSERVATISM
6. THE GREAT REACTION
7. THE TAKE-OVER
8. A NEW ERA
9. THE CABAL
BOOK TWO: AMERICA - JAN. 20, 1981
10. RUSTBELT
11. SUNBELT
12. CAPITAL OF SUCCESS
BOOK THREE: THE TEFLON YEARS
13. ELECTRONIC CULTURE
14. MYTHS AND REALITIES
15. PRIVATIZING
16. GOD AND MAMMON
17. THE INSIDERS
18. DEREGULATION
19. THE LEDGER
20. SECRETS
21. HAVEN
22. APRIL AGAIN
23. ON THE HILL
24. THE INVESTIGATION
25. OLLIEMANIA
26. POSTMORTEMS
27. CRASH
28. RECKONING
BOOK FOUR: AMERICA - JAN. 20, 1989
29. CAPITAL OF SUCCESS
30. SUNBELT
31. RUSTBELT AND FARMBELT
32. WALL STREET
33. WASHINGTON
EPILOGUE
AFTERWORD
PLAYERSOF THE EIGHTIES
NOTES AND SOURCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR