Why We Love The '80S

Why we love the '80sThough it takes a bit of sim­plification, most decades are fairly easy to charac­terize, especially since Americans often conform to the characterization and wind up turning decades into what they are supposed to be. However they began, the Roaring Twenties, with their flappers and Charlestons and Stutz Bearcats and Pro­hibition booze, really did roar (text continued on page 158)EDWIN MEESEAs the 75th attorney gen­eral of the U.S., Ed Meese served as the Reagan admin­istratio...