Something happened:a political and cultural overview of the seventies
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Columbia University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | 283 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0231124945 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231124942 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231500513 (electronic) 9780231500517 (electronic) |
Index Number: | D771 |
CLC: |
D771.22 D771.2 G171.29 D771.29 |
Call Number: | D771.2/B513-1 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-264) and index. Nixon, Watergate, and presidential scandal -- Vietnam and its consequences -- Running out of gas: the economic downturn and social change -- The frustrations of Gerald Ford -- Congress and domestic policy in the age of Gerald Ford -- Jimmy Carter and the great American revival -- The rights revolution -- The me decade and the turn to the right -- The movies as cultural mirror -- Television and the reassurance of the familiar -- The end of the seventies. |