Stayin' Alive

by Cowie, Jefferson

• ISBN13: 9781565848757
• ISBN10: 1565848756
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-07
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

An epic account of how middle-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. This wide-ranging cultural and political history re-writes the 1970s as the crucial, pivotal era of modern times. Edgy and incisive - part political history, part labour history - with large doses of American musical, film and TV lore. From the factories of Ohio to Nixon, Ford and Carter's Washington, Cowie connects politics to culture, exposing how the 1970s saw a widening on inequalities and poverty.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Something's Happening to People Like Me	p. 1
Hope in the Confusion, 1968-1974	p. 21
Old Fashioned Heroes of the New Working Class	p. 23
What Kind of Delegation Is This?	p. 75
Nixon's Class Struggle	p. 125
I'm Dying Here	p. 167
Despair in the Order, 1974-1982	p. 211
A Collective Sadness	p. 213
The New Deal that Never Happened	p. 261
The Important Sound of Things Falling Apart	p. 313
Dead Man's Town	p. 357
Acknowledgments	p. 371
Notes	p. 375
Index	p. 447
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