The Seventies: The Great Shift In American Culture, Society, And Politics [Paperback]

A sprightly, neatly detailed and enlightening history...this is an important contribution to modern American social history and the literature of popular culture. (Publishers Weekly)

Sweeping away misconceptions about the Me Decade, Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970s. Arguing that it was one of the most important of the postwar twentieth-century decades, despite its reputation as an eminently forgettable period, Schulman reconstructs public events and private lives, high culture and low, analyzing not only presidential politics and national policy but also the broader social and cultural experiences that transformed American life. Here are the names, faces, and movements that gave birth to the world we now live in-from Nixon and Carter toThe Godfatherand the Ramones; from Billie Jean King and Phyllis Schlafly to NOW and the ERA; from the Energy Crisis to Roe v. Wade.The Seventiesis an astutely provocative reexamination of a misunderstood era.Bruce J. Schulmanis the William E. Huntington Professor at Boston University and Chair of the History Department at Boston University. The author of three books and editor of two, he has been a contributor to theNew York Times, theWashington Post, theLos Angeles Times, and has appeared as an expert commentator on many television and radio programs. He lives in Massachusetts.