| The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics Contributor(s): Schulman, Bruce (Author) |
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ISBN: 030681126X ISBN-13: 9780306811265 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2002 Annotation: Sweeping away misconceptions about the "Me Decade, " Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970's. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Social History - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 973.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.15 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |