The Seventies

Sweeping away misconceptions about the "Me Decade," Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970s. Arguing that it was one of the most important of the postwar 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.