<p> The past thirty-five years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s and temporarily reversed in the 1990s, a powerful surge from the right dominated American politics and government from 1974 to 2008. In <i>The Age of Reagan</i>, Sean Wilentz, one of our nation's leading historians, accounts for how a conservative movement once deemed marginal managed to seize power and hold it, and describes the momentous consequences that followed. </p> <p> Vivid, authoritative, and illuminating from start to finish, <i>The Age of Reagan</i> is a groundbreaking chronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon. </p>