Microchip+Nation



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media type="custom" key="17197692" This lecture deals with America in the wake of Nixon and Watergate and the subsequent election of outsider Jimmy Carter to the presidency in 1976. We examine his approach to softening the "imperial presidency" and bringing back traditional values to politics, as well as the crises he experienced with regards to energy policy, pollution, "stagflation," and what many called America's "national malaise."

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media type="custom" key="17197850" This lecture deals with the continuing crisis-ridden administration of Jimmy Carter (1976-1980) and foreign policy situation that came to dominate the latter part of his term. We will look at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Iranian hostage crisis, all in the context of the beginning of radical Islamic fundamentalism's rise to power in the Middle East and hinting towards future trends in America's relations with the Middle East.

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This lecture introduces the "Reagan Revolution" specifically and the culture of the Roarin' 80s generally -- focusing on domestic politics and economic change. We start by examining the optimism and "can do" spirit of Ronald Reagan's message that juxtaposed so clearly with the complex, unhappy messages coming from the Carter Administration by the late 1970s. We look at Reagan's landslide 1980 presidential election victory, and then the "Reaganomics" that created both an explosion of wealth creation while increasing the gap between the wealthy and poor. We finish the lecture by looking at the larger picture of the United States in the era of "globalization" where an industrial society moved towards an "information age" society based on the ubiquity of the microchip.

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