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Table of Contents:

• 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.

Author/Creator:

Berkowitz, Edward D.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Something happened: a political and cultural overview of the seventies [by Berkowitz, E.D.]

Subjects:

United States — Politics and government — 1969-1974

United States — Politics and government — 1974-1977

United States — Politics and government — 1977-1981

United States — Social conditions — 1960-1980

Nineteen seventies

Political culture — United States — History — 20th century

Popular culture — United States — History — 20th century

1900-1999

Social conditions

Political culture

Popular culture

Politics and government

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-264) and index.

Physical Description:

283 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

E855 .B37 2006

ISBNs:

0231124945 (cloth, alk. paper)
0231500513 (electronic)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2005050739

OCLC Numbers:

60671917