The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics

The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics"A sprightly, neatly detailed and enlightening history this is an important contribution to modern American social history and the literature of popular culture." (Publishers Weekly) Sweeping away misconceptions about the "Me Decade," Bruce Schulman offers a fast paced, wide ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970s. Arguing that it was one of the most important of the postwar twentieth

"A sprightly, neatly detailed and enlightening history...this is an important contribution to modern American social history and the literature of popular culture." (Publishers Weekly)

Sweeping away misconceptions about the "Me Decade," Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970s. Arguing that it was one of the most important of the postwar twentieth-century decades, despite its reputation as an eminently forgettable period, Schulman reconstructs public events and private lives, high culture and low, analyzing not only presidential politics and national policy but also the broader social and cultural experiences that transformed American life. Here are the names, faces, and movements that gave birth to the world we now live in-from Nixon and Carter to The Godfather and the Ramones; from Billie Jean King and Phyllis Schlafly to NOW and the ERA; from the Energy Crisis to Roe v. Wade. The Seventies is an astutely provocative reexamination of a misunderstood era.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 04/18/2002
ISBN: 9780306811265
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citations: New York Times 06/23/2002 pg. 24
New Yorker (The) 08/11/2014 pg. 80