Peggy Noonan Influence

The years between 1960 and 1990 were ones filled with constant struggle and change for America. The dim events that consumed that time involved the energy crisis that further broke down the economy, the tragedy that was the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal that the President of the United States himself had been apart of. It was a fearful time for America and a time where change was essential for the survival of the American life against all threats. On January 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan took office, which would bring about a revolution that would truly turn America around. Throughout this time many Americans had shifted “Left” but Ronald Reagan’s conservative Republican victory over a Democratic incumbent really brought about the spread of conservatism across …show more content…
Peggy Noonan was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1950 to an Irish-Catholic family. The world she grew up in, according to Noonan “It was a world of different rules and different facts, a world of people getting by, a world that carried within it an immutable fact: Not everything is possible, you can’t have everything, and that’s not bad, that’s life.” Noonan would in the future find a more hopeful outlook about the possibilities available in America. But growing up it was a time where families were just trying to make it through and Noonan’s family was no different. They were the example of the working class and so it would come to no surprise that they loved the Kennedy’s not only because they too were Irish-Catholic but also because “They opened the doors of American glamour to the working class.” Noonan’s mother would bring Kennedy-Johnson bumper stickers from the Massapequa Democratic Club to her. Noonan was so busy campaigning that she did not do her schoolwork, which proved that as a child Noonan was already enamored with politics. It is evident that

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