Please read the following:
From Morning in America – 1987 – Morning in America
From The Other Eighties – Chapter 2 – The Central America Solidarity Movement: Opposing Secret Wars in the Backyard
From Living in the Eighties: Chapter 9 – Did Ronald Reagan make the Berlin Wall fall
Prompt
As the Reagan Reagan administration was focused on eradicating the singular foreign threat of Communism and its Socialists brethren, conservatives also grew concerned about growing domestic threats. A new war for the hearts & minds of America was underway, along with a presidential legacy on the line . What “threats” were perceived to have emerged in the late 1980s to challenge a popular narrative established by the Reagan Administration that the United States was as a shining beacon of exceptionalism? Please be mindful to connect these readings with previous materials you have come across this semester.