The United States during the Reagan years in the 1980s was proud, loud, and unabashed. Americans wore diamantes to bed and ten-gallon stetsons to dinner.
Historian, WSJ Columnist, Co-Founder of House of SpeakEasy · I am the author of the award-winning bestsellers "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire" (1999) and "A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided" (2011).