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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and bestselling author Rick Perlstein as they discuss Perlstein’s new book "Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980."

In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future. His comeback was fueled by an extraordinary confluence of fundamentalist preachers and former segregationists, business executives, a secretive “New Right”—and Reagan’s own unbending optimism, his ability to convey unshakable confidence in America as the world’s “shining city on a hill.”

Backed by a reenergized conservative Republican base, Reagan ran on the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again”—and prevailed. "Reaganland" is the story of how that happened, tracing conservatives’ cutthroat strategies to gain power and explaining why they endure four decades later.

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