Bradford Martin . The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan . New York: Hill and Wang. 2011. Pp. xix, 242. $26.00.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Once upon a time, following Ronald Reagan's retirement, historians were surprisingly silent about his presidency. Disdain for Reagan was so ubiquitous among scholars that even spending time with his papers, let alone taking him seriously historically, was unseemly. At the time, Reagan scholarship was not for the faint‐hearted—or the untenured. Then, gradually, came glasnost. More and more historians starting understanding that Reagan was the greatest American president since Franklin D. Roosevelt—in the Time magazine person‐of‐the‐year meaning— for better or worse. That phase culminated with Sean Wilentz's The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008 (2008). Wilentz, whom journalists have repeatedly dubbed a “liberal historian,” pronounced Reagan significant and not as destructive as he first seemed. Inevitably, the reaction to the counterreaction has begun. Bradford Martin returns the historical conversation to where it began. Martin set out to prove that not every book about the 1980s “turns into a Reagan book” (p. ix). Still, the subtitle is misleading. This history is not so secret. It describes the protest movements that, Martin shows, were louder, larger, and more lasting than we remember.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.143 | 0.061 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".