Product Description

It was 'Morning in America,' declared an incoming Ronald Reagan. Everything promised to be better than ever, including a renovated Statue of Liberty. While Wolfgang Puck served nouvelle cuisine, Blondie played new wave rock and Keith Haring introduced the art of the neo-doodle. Yet the newness had a frightening flip side. We lost the Challenger and out first teacher-astronaut, Christa McAuliffe; and people began dying in terrifying numbers of an incurable new disease called AIDS. No wonder E.T wanted to phone home.As Michael Jackson moonwalked and Madonna championed the material girl, we yearned for old-fashioned, father knows-best reassurance-and-got it, in fresh, humorous form, from Bill Cosby. Of course, we will believe in fairy tales. How else to explain millions of otherwise sensible Americans getting up before dawn to watch Lady Diana wed Prince Charles? We all hoped that where there was a Wills, there was a way that might live happily ever after, or so we hoped. Ah, well. If the royals were clueless, Oprah Winfrey arrived with all-new answers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1193573 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-09
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

Back to the 80s
Mainly a picture book. From the people who bring you "People" comes this 80s flashback book. I am off to change into my parachute pants while listening to Joan Jett...

love it!
I absolutely love this book, great depiction of the 80s...the styles, hair, music, TV, movies, news, etc. People did a great job putting this book together. Nice, full-color pictures and adequate explanations to prompt the memory. Were there things left out? Sure, but overall it's a great overview of what was happening then. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to remember the way it was "in our day."