Sleepwalking Through History America in the Reagan Years

National bestseller: In this brilliantly readable book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the Reagan decade, when America fell from dominant world power to struggling debtor nation and when optimism turned to foreboding. In human terms and living case histories, Haynes Johnson captures the drama and tragedy of an era nurtured by greed and a morality that found virtue in not getting caught. "It is morning again in America," Reagan's campaign commercials told us, and for too long we embraced that convenient lie. Indeed, the problems that came to plague us in that decade are with us even more today, as Johnson memorably demonstrates in'”his afterword, "Notes on an Era," written especially for this new paperback reissue. This book will remain a signature work of political analysis for years to come.

Haynes Johnson has written thirteen books and for many years was a mainstay on the PBS-TV program Washington Week in Review. In addition to holding the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of Maryland, he now appears on the "historians' panel" of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer