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<p>Ronald Reagan's first great victory, in the 1966 California governor's race, confounded his critics. Two years earlier, the conservative movement had been pronounced dead. Now political neophyte Reagan trounced incumbent Edmund G. "Pat" Brown. The lasting legacy of that discordant time in America remains the rise of the conservatives.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>The so-called Reagan revolution, according to Dallek, did not begin in 1980 when Reagan won the presidency, but in 1966 when the conservative Hollywood actor, a former FBI informant with no political experience, won a landslide victory in the California gubernatorial race against two-term Democratic incumbent Pat Brown. In this briskly readable, insightful but unsurprising study, Dallek (who has been a columnist for Slate and a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, Salon and other publications) argues with some justification that the California election was a watershed event. Reagan, positioning himself as a champion of law and order, and as a bold-thinking conservative with fresh ideas and programs, distanced himself from the Republican Party's extremist right wing. Tapping into widespread frustration over high tax

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Author

Matthew Jeremy Dallek

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195174076

Category

history

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14