AMERICA IN THE SEVENTIES by Beth Bailey (Editor), David Farber (Editor) ( 9780700613274 )

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Title:

AMERICA IN THE SEVENTIES

By:

Beth Bailey (Editor), David Farber (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

List price:	£18.99
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ISBN 10:

0700613277

ISBN 13:

9780700613274

Publisher:

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS

Pub. date:

21 June, 2004

Series:

CultureAmerica

Pages:

272

Description:

The 70s witnessed economic decline in America, coupled with a series of foreign policy failures, events that created an air of unease and uncertainty. This volume examines the ways in which Americans responded to a changing world and sought to redefine themselves.

Synopsis:

Tucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade. Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look at the Seventies and their rightful place in the epic narrative of American history. This is the first major work to relate the economic decline and cultural despair of the Seventies to the creative efforts that would reshape American society. Dogged by economic and political crises at home and foreign policy failures abroad, Americans responded to a growing sense of uncertainty in a variety of ways. Some explored the new freedoms promised by the social change movements of the late Sixties. Some challenged the technological verities that ruled corporate America. Others sought to create autonomous zones in the ruins of decaying cities or on the bleak landscape of anemic suburbia. And, against a backdrop of massive economic dislocation and bicentennial celebrations, many Americans struggled to redefine patriotism and the meaning of the American dream.

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Imprint:

University Press of Kansas

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