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Product Identifiers
PublisherHachette Books
ISBN-10030681126X
ISBN-139780306811265
eBay Product ID (ePID)5038296444
Product Key Features
Book TitleSeventies : the Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Social History, Popular Culture
Publication Year2002
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorBruce Schulman
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.7 in
Item Weight16.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Synopsis"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.