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Article: The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics.(Review)
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- The American Prospect
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- February 26, 2001
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The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics, by Matthew Dallek. The Free Press, 284 pages, $25.00.
Americans are ideological conservatives and operational liberals. That was the finding of social psychologists Lloyd A. Free and Hadley Cantril, who based much of The Political Beliefs of Americans, their classic work about public opinion, on a massive survey they conducted during the fall of 1964. As ideological conservatives, Americans are skeptical about the "role and sphere of government in general and of the Federal Government in particular," the authors discovered. Yet as operational liberals, citizens ...