Title Something happened : a political and cultural overview of the seventies / Edward D. Berkowitz.

Publication Info.	New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
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Description	1 online resource (283 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index.
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.
Summary	According to Edward D. Berkowitz, the end of the postwar economic boom, Watergate, and Vietnam all contributed to an unraveling of the national consensus in 1970s America. His unique history-which touches on everything from the decline of the steel industry to the blossoming of Bill Gates, from Saturday Night Fever to the Sunday morning fervor of evangelical preachers-argues that the postwar faith in sweeping social programs and a global U.S. mission was replaced in the 1970s by a more skeptical attitude toward the government's ability to affect society positively. Berkowitz ex.
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Subject	United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
	United States.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	1969-1974
Subject	United States -- Politics and government -- 1974-1977.
Chronological Term	1974-1977
Subject	United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981.
Chronological Term	1977-1981
Subject	United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.
	Social conditions.
Chronological Term	1960-1980
Subject	Nineteen seventies.
	Nineteen seventies.
	Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Political culture.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Popular culture.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Berkowitz, Edward D. Something happened. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006 0231124945 (DLC) 2005050739 (OCoLC)60671917
ISBN	0231500513 (electronic book)
	9780231500517 (electronic book)

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