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The seventies : the great shift in American culture, society, and politics
- Title
- The seventies : the great shift in American culture, society, and politics / Bruce J. Schulman.
- Author
- Schulman, Bruce J.
- Publication
- Cambridge, MA. : Da Capo Press, 2002.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 334 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- During the era that Jonathan Livingston Seagull was soaring high on self-help platitudes, the Village People were bringing a campy sensibility to the discos, and "Ms." was replacing older forms of female address, the United States, according to Schulman, was undergoing some of the most drastic and profound changes in its history. A professor of history and director of American Studies at Boston University, Schulman has fashioned a sprightly, neatly detailed and enlightening history of a period that many historians have written off as an uneventful time. While Saturday Night Live embodied the "contempt for authority" that was prevalent during the period, it was, he says, also part of a culture that "reinvented America" in ways that were deeply progressive and political. From social movements like feminism, gay liberation and the "gray panthers," to the emergence of Jimmy Carter and the politics of the sunbelt, to the startling notion of "diversity" "the prospect of unlike, unassimilable groups as a good to be valued" the 1970s altered basic concepts about the individual, race, economics, politics and society. This book's power comes from its ability to capture both the myriad contradictions as well as the cultural and political syncopations of the time. Schulman's breadth of examples from popular and political culture and his ability to use them to illuminate one another make for astute analysis as well as colorful social history
- Alternative Title
- 70s
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-316) and index.
- Contents
- 1. "Down to the nut-cutting" : the Nixon Presidency and American public life -- 2. E pluribus plures : from racial integration to "diversity" -- 3. "Plugging in" : seeking and finding in the seventies -- 4. The rise of the Sunbelt and the "reddening" of America -- 5. Jimmy Carter and the crisis of confidence -- 6. "Tis ain't no foolin' around" : rebellion and authority in seventies popular culture -- 7. Battles of the sexes : women, men, and the family -- 8. "The Minutemen are turning in their graves" : the new right and the tax revolt -- 9. The Reagan culmination.
- ISBN
- 030681126X
- 9780306811265
- 0684828146
- 9780684828145
- LCCN
- 2001023238
- OCLC
- ocm49696260
- 49696260
- SCSB-9544515
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library