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Dazed and Confused
America Confronts the 1970s
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2023
Summary
While historians have revisited every aspect of America history in the tumultuous 1960s, coverage of the following decade is sparse. As America reflects on the 50th anniversary of the 1970s, Blaine Browne reexamines the decade’s major international, political, social, cultural, economic, and intellectual developments, giving special attention to how its developments continue to impact American life. He views the decade as a major transitional era, given the death of many of the promises and hopes of the Sixties, the collapse of the post-World War II consensus, and the uncertainties of a new age in which the America might well not enjoy the preeminent global position it had held for the previous quarter century. Growing fundamental economic challenges, as well as concerns about the viability of the nation’s political leadership and democratic institutions added to these anxieties. A general angst permeated national life. Whether readers are reliving the years when they came of age or exploring the 1970s for the first time, Dazed and Confused will introduce the topics and cast of characters who defined this pivotal decade in American life.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-6609-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-6610-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
298
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CONTENTS No access
PREFACE No access
PROLOGUE No access
1. “I’M WASTED, AND I CAN’TFIND MY WAY HOME”: The End of the 1960s No access Pages 1 - 28
2. “A DECENT INTERVAL”: America’s Exit from Vietnam, 1969–1973 No access Pages 29 - 56
3. “SHOULD HAVE DESTROYED THE TAPES”: The Collapse of the Nixon Presidency No access Pages 57 - 84
4. BRINGING THE WAR HOME: Last Spasms of the Radical Left No access Pages 85 - 114
5. “THE AMERICAN RIDE IS ENDING”: Energy Crises, Inflation, and the Challenges of a Postindustrial Society No access Pages 115 - 142
6. THE “ME DECADE” AND 1970s ACTIVISM No access Pages 143 - 170
7. “WHAT IS SPECIAL ORDER 937?”: Film, Television, and Theater in the 1970s No access Pages 171 - 202
8. “BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER”: Popular Music in the 1970s No access Pages 203 - 228
9. “A CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE”: National Politics and Foreign Policy No access Pages 229 - 260
EPILOGUE. “ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW. . . ?”: The End of the 1970s No access Pages 261 - 264
