BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Levan Book Chat—Diane Winston\, Righting the American Dream X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260713T035822Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_45587482844497 DTSTART:20240318T190000Z DTEND:20240318T200000Z DESCRIPTION:Please note the new date and time: MONDAY\, MARCH 18 at 12:00 P M\n\n \n\nA discussion of Diane Winston's new book\, Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision (Universi ty of Chicago Press\, 2023). The author will be joined in conversation by Darren Dochuk (University of Notre Dame) and Lerone A. Martin (Stanford Un iversity)\, moderated by Kamy Akhavan (USC). Co-organized by the USC Cente r for the Political Future. Registration is required: REGISTER HERE\n\n \n \nAbout the Book: A provocative new history of how the news media facilita ted the Reagan Revolution and the rise of the religious Right.\n\n \n\nAft er two years in the White House\, an aging and increasingly unpopular Rona ld Reagan looked like a one-term president\, but in 1983 something changed . Reagan spoke of his embattled agenda as a spiritual rather than a politi cal project and cast his vision for limited government and market economic s as the natural outworking of religious conviction. The news media broadc ast this message with enthusiasm\, and white evangelicals rallied to the p resident’s cause. With their support\, Reagan won reelection and continu ed to dismantle the welfare state\, unraveling a political consensus that stood for half a century.\n\n \n\nIn Righting the American Dream\, Diane W inston reveals how support for Reagan emerged from a new religious vision of American identity circulating in the popular press. Through four key ev ents—the “evil empire” speech\, AIDS outbreak\, invasion of Grenada\ , and rise in American poverty rates—Winston shows that many journalists uncritically adopted Reagan’s religious rhetoric and ultimately mainstr eamed otherwise unpopular evangelical ideas about individual responsibilit y. The result is a provocative new account of how Reagan together with the press turned America to the right and initiated a social revolution that continues today.\n\n \n\nAbout the Author: Diane Winston is Professor of Journalism and Communication and Knight Center Chair in Media and Religion . Winston is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist\, author\, and columnis t. She has authored and edited numerous books on the connection between re ligion\, media\, American history\, and politics. They include Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army (1999)\, Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban Commercial Culture (2002)\, Small Screen\, Big Picture: Television and Lived Religion (2009)\, The Oxford Ha ndbook of Religion and the News Media (2012)\, and Religion and Reality TV : Faith in Late Capitalism (2018). Her latest book – Righting the Americ an Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision (2023) — reveals how the Reagan presidency utilized news media to spread a new religious vision of American identity\, one which continues to influence p olitics\, including the rise of Trumpism and Christian nationalism.\n\n \n \nOpen to attendants outside of USC. An excerpt of the book will be made a vailable to registered attendants. Registration before the event is requir ed. \n\n \n\nLevan Institute for the Humanities Book Chats\n\n \n\nThis ev ent is part of the Levan Institute for the Humanities' “Book Chats” se ries\, conversations about new books published by USC scholars in the huma nities and humanistic social sciences. To see more events in this series\, including recordings of past events\, visit https://dornsife.usc.edu/leva n-institute/book-chats/. LOCATION: SUMMARY:Levan Book Chat—Diane Winston\, Righting the American Dream URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/levan_book_chat_dianewinston_r ightingtheamericandream CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR