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How We Got Here : the 70s The Decade That Brought You Modern Life -- For Better Or Worse

By David , Frum

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2008
ISBN
9780786723508, 0786723505, 0-465-04196-5, 978-0-465-04196-1
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1743082 bytes)
Series
For Better or Worse
Pages
463\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
History.;Nineteen seventies.;United States -- Civi

Description

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 Here is lively and provocative reading.

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