Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) 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.
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Examines the political, social, and economic events that shaped the downward turn of America in the 1970s and explores how the bleak economic and political situation impacted American culture.
Nineteen seventies.
Political culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Kultur
Nineteen seventies.
Political culture.
Politics and government.
Politieke geschiedenis.
Politik
Politische Kultur
Pop-Kultur
Popular culture.
Social conditions.
Soziale Situation
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.
United States, Politics and government, 1974-1977.
United States, Social conditions, 1960-1980.
United States, United States, Politics and government, 1969-1974.
United States, United States, Politics and government, 1977-1981.