The Eighties the daughters Regan has arrived with her

Regan has arrived with her mystery-writing mom and suave

even in death -- unaware of the sacrifices they made to be together or of the difficult truths and lies in their marriage

the contradictions of its development risks pushing it back into an era of insularity and instability -- a regression that

the devastating family legacy returns

from the East Coast of the United States to the vast reaches of the Pacific

The Eighties the daughters Regan has arrived with herThe America of the 1980s is often caricatured as a time of yuppie greed and self absorption. But what was driving that decades rampant pursuit of individual pleasure? What were the cultural forces behind Madonna's Material Girl and Oliver Stone's Wall Street? These fascinating essays, collected by historian Gilbert T. Sewall from the major books, journals, news reports, and public addresses of the day, survey the tumultuous social change that engulfed