In The Age of Reagan, one of the nation’s leading historians offers a groundbreaking and provocative chronicle of America’s political history since the fall of Nixon. Sean Wilentz accounts for how a conservative movement once deemed marginal managed to seize power and hold it, and the momentous consequences that followed.

Drawing on numerous primary documents that have been neglected or only recently released to the public, as well as on emerging historical work, Wilentz offers invaluable revelations about conservatism’s ascendancy and the era in which Reagan was the preeminent political figure.