Lexual Does The 80s #2: The Rich and Poor Under Reaganomics (Patreon)
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Ronald Reagan has been mythologized as a man who saved the economy, made new millionaires, created new homeowners, solved unemployment, and championed the middle class. What was real and fake? And how was wealth achieved at the expense of the quality of life of the lower class?
Sources and Further Reading
- The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (Bruce J Schulman)
- The 1970s: A New Global History From Civil Rights to Economic Inequality (Thomas Borstelmann)
- Fault Lines: A History of The United States Since 1974 (Kevin Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer)
- The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan (Bradford Martin)
- The Age of Reagan: A History (1974-2008) Sean Wilentz
- Morning In America: How Ronald Reagan Invented The 1980s (Gil Troy)
- Back To Our Future: How The 1980s Explain The World We Live in Now-- Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything (David Sirota)
- Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989, A Brief History With Documents (Meg Jacobs and Julian E Zelizer)
- Living In The Eighties (Edited by Gil Troy and Vincent J Cannato)
- The Yupper West Side: New York Special Issue 1985
- Welfare - A Brief History Of Welfare Reform - Programs, Act, Assistance, and Recipients
- https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/25/us/conservative-study-gives-reagan-a-mixed-rating.html
- https://www.salon.com/2015/12/28/behind_the_ronald_reagan_myth_no_one_had_ever_entered_the_white_house_so_grossly_ill_informed/
- https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1985/07/05/issue.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/26/us/conservatives-disappointed-with-shift-by-reagan.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1g-0n8iGo&t=67s
- https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/05/business/the-latest-cult-in-ice-cream.html
- https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1984/3/5/jesse-and-the-jews-pbtbhis-is/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/19/magazine/understanding-mondale.html
- https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1984/02/27/issue.html
- https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/01/19/blacks-and-jews/
- https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5294&context=bg-news
- https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/24/business/top-arbitrager-ivan-f-boesky-the-secretive-life-of-an-arb.html
- https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1986/11/23/issue.html
- https://www.newsweek.com/our-readers-predicted-donald-trumps-presidential-campaign-29-years-ago-450763
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/06/07/108-million-in-miami-banks-traced-to-drug-suspects/1752f653-e66b-4549-a557-98a418a92331/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1980/06/06/proxmire-some-banks-addicted-to-drug-money/e4518bd2-3af0-42cf-8023-e830b0db6e01/
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/302936610/
- https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-06-24-1993175110-story.html
- https://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/sites/default/files/2019-02//The-Color-of-Wealth-in-Miami-Metro.pdf
- https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/09/03/white-line-fever/
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/304292017/?terms=government%20cheese&match=1
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/691825532/?terms=government%20cheese&match=1
- https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1991/10/14/issue.html
- https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2019/05/during-the-1980s-farm-crisis-minnesota-lost-more-than-10000-farms/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/16/opinion/why-the-grain-embargo-continues-by-james-c-webster.html
- https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-1984
- https://thehustle.co/aairpass-american-airlines-250k-lifetime-ticket/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/the-decade-when-donald-trump-became-a-celebrity/422838/
- https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-gq-profile-graydon-carter
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/01/06/travel-trends-a-view-of-what-the-80s-may-bring/0bdd3c34-4b50-4df6-892a-dfbc11fa8eec/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/10/01/oct-1-1981-that-day-is-finally-here-reagans-budget-cuts-begin/c4872e17-43c4-46a6-8d4e-6804027678c0/
- https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/moynihan-and-the-neocons
- https://www.businessinsider.com/what-happened-to-american-jobs-in-the-80s-2017-7
- https://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2018/08/shopping-malls-and-social-change.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/19/magazine/can-miami-save-itself-a-city-beset-by-drugs-and-violence.html
- https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/the-forgotten-1980s-rule-thats-hurting-poor-families-savings/387373/
- https://www.thebalance.com/savings-and-loans-crisis-causes-cost-3306035
- http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/ArtWeb/CC7054D5ADE17F64852571A20068ED13?OpenDocument
- https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/19/business/the-boom-in-tax-shelters.html
- http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922693,00.html
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/cocaine-cowboys
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40068367.pdf
- https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/09/03/white-line-fever/
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1015772503007
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/business/grocery-stores-access-race-inequality/index.html
- https://www.newsweek.com/where-food-isnt-200642
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-25-fi-6315-story.html
- https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-09-02-1994245070-story.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/nyregion/20cnd-helmsley.html
- https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/behind-queen-of-mean-leona-helmsley-a-5b-estate-and-trump/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/21/us/us-sees-private-school-enrollment-surge-in-80-s.html
- https://www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1025018833/looking-back-on-when-president-reagan-fired-air-traffic-controllers
- https://theharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Harris-Interactive-Poll-Research-ALMOST-ALL-PROPOSED-BUDGET-CUTS-SUPPORTED-1981-03.pdf
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/302186941/?terms=ketchup%20vegetable&match=1
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/687938753/?terms=ketchup%20vegetable&match=1
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/10/01/oct-1-1981-that-day-is-finally-here-reagans-budget-cuts-begin/c4872e17-43c4-46a6-8d4e-6804027678c0/
- https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/CSCapacity/CSCapacity-History1980s.html
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-09-13-vw-7633-story.html
- https://www.agriculture.com/family/health-safety/sf-special-farmer-suicides-today-vs-1980s-farm-crisis
- https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-10-18-1992292105-story.html
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/06/08/queen-of-the-fleet/cafc86a4-4b82-42d0-99f8-8b1a985c63f6/
- https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/blakely-fortress.html
- https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/1112/111205.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/16/jobs/1980s-grads-baby-boom-to-job-bust.html
- https://www.pewresearch.org/2011/02/22/in-showdown-with-air-traffic-controllers-the-public-sided-with-reagan/
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/234861423/?terms=ss%20norway%20cruise&match=1
- https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/06/travel/jamaica-s-resorts-in-revival.html
- https://www.pewresearch.org/2011/02/22/in-showdown-with-air-traffic-controllers-the-public-sided-with-reagan/
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/181263673/?terms=air%20traffic%20controllers&match=1
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/146021877/?terms=air%20traffic%20controllers&match=1
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/294502924/?terms=air%20traffic%20controllers%20reagan&match=1
- https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-10-02/when-reagan-shot-country-rallied-he-hadnt-spent-months-downplaying-assassins
- https://www.newsweek.com/rise-trump-357533
- http://ssmaritime.com/SS-Norway-1980-brochure-M-Bobo.htm
- https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1990/09/Art1full.pdf
Video Footage Used + Further Viewing
- Reagan Supporters Stock Footage
- 1985-1987 Throwback Report: Yuppies
- Family Ties "Liberal Monsters"
- Ronald Reagan Hosts Michael Jackson at the White House
- Wall Street Traders Were VERY Intense in 1980. This Is Real!
- Vice-Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro in San Diego August 1984
- 1984 Vice Presidential Debate: George H.W. Bush v Geraldine Ferraro
- The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) Featuring Bob Dole (1983)
- Mall Ads
- 1980s Grocery Store/Shopping Footage
- SS Norway
- Miami Vice - In The Air Tonight Scene
- Insider Trading - Wall Street (1986)
- Cash Flow Into Miami From The Drug Trade (1986)
- The cocaine cowboys strikes again | Miami's bloody drug wars, 1979
- The Extradition of Pablo Escobar: War against Colombia
- Scenes from Miami's Drug War, 1972-1986
- Miami 1980s
- A Cause For Alarm (Amway Home Security System Filmstrip, 1984)
- Wendy's (Wheres The Beef) Commercial 1983
- Walter Mondale to Gary Hart: "Where's the beef?"
- Reagan-Mondale debate: the age issue
- 1984 Vice Presidential Debate: George H.W. Bush v Geraldine Ferraro
- Wendy's Grill Skills
- Willie Nelson - On the Road Again (Live at Farm Aid 1985)
- 1981 SPECIAL REPORT: "SOUTH BRONX"
- PBS Frontline: Growing Up Poor (1986)
- Ronald Reagan Shot Raw Tape
- Remembering the 1981 day Reagan was shot
- Reagan Assassination Attempt
- President Ronald Reagan Assassination Attempt CNN Coverage 3-30-1981
- WAVY Archive: 1981 Budget Cuts Affecting Black Colleges
- WAVY Archive: 1981 Veteran Budget Cuts
- 1940s Snippets of Ronald Reagan Acting
- WAVY Archive: 1981 Air Traffic Controllers Strike PATCO
- Reagan-Mondale Election Night '84
- WAVY Archive: 1981 PATCO Strike Continues
- The air traffic controller strike of 1981
- Ronald Reagan-Remarks on the Air Traffic Controllers Strike (August 3, 1981)
- When Cell Phones Were A 1980s Novelty | Flashback | NBC News