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9780465041961

How We Got Here The 70's: The Decade that Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse)

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  • ISBN13:

    9780465041961

  • ISBN10:

    0465041965

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-12-07
  • Publisher: Basic Books

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Summary

For many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A society that had valued faith, self-reliance, self-sacrifice, and family loyalty evolved in little more than a decade into one characterized by superstition, self-interest, narcissism, and guilt. Frum examines this metamorphosis through the rise to cultural dominance of faddish psychology, astrology, drugs, religious cults, and consumer debt, and profiles such prominent players of the decade as Werner Erhard, Alex Comfort, and Jerry Brown.How We Got Hereis lively and provocative reading.

Author Biography

David Frum is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor for the Weekly Standard. He is also the author of Dead Right.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
Introduction xiii
PART I: TRUST
Full Faith and Credit
3(8)
The Law Is Crazy
11(8)
On the Line
19(7)
``I Am Not a Crook.''
26(7)
Wild and Crazy Guys
33(4)
The Paranoid Moment
37(20)
PART II: DUTY
The Great Rebellion
57(4)
By Any Means Necessary
61(4)
The New Work Ethic
65(8)
The Courage to Divorce
73(8)
I Ain't A-Marchin' Anymore
81(9)
Won't You Be My POSSLQ?
90(9)
Let's Talk About Me!
99(7)
Satan's Spawn
106(9)
PART III: REASON
Beyond Reason
115(8)
Crunchy Granola
123(8)
The Golden Age of Cranks
131(5)
Dumbing Down
136(8)
God Moves to Dallas
144(14)
Apocalypse Now
158(11)
PART IV: DESIRE
Are We Having Fun Yet?
169(4)
Our Bodies, Ourselves
173(8)
Me and My Calvins
181(7)
Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi Ce Soir?
188(13)
Gender Benders
201(16)
PART V: RIGHTS
Dam Yankees
217(11)
See You in Court
228(13)
The Gorgeous Mosaic
241(10)
A Harvard Plan for the Working-Class Man
251(14)
Americanism, 100%
265(10)
The People's House
275(12)
PART VI: REGENERATION
Time of Troubles
287(3)
Sound As a Dollar
290(13)
``Our Inordinate Fear of Communism''
303(9)
The Moral Equivalent of War
312(11)
Mad as Hell
323(3)
Hayek's Prize
326(7)
The New Poverty
333(6)
The Emerging Republican Majority
339(8)
Conclusion 347(12)
Notes 359(26)
Index 385

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