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

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Basic Books, 2008 M08 4 - 416 páginas
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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TRUST
3
The Law Is Crazy
11
On the Line
19
I Am Not a Crook
26
Wild and Crazy Guys
33
The Great Rebellion
57
The New Work Ethic
65
The Courage to Divorce
73
RIGHTS
217
The Gorgeous Mosaic
241
Americanism 100
265
REGENERATION
287
Our Inordinate Fear of Communism
303
Mad as Hell
323
Actors John Belushi and Garrett Morris as Coneheads on the set
333
The Emerging Republican Majority
339

Aint AMarchin Anymore
81
Wont You Be My POSSLQ?
90
Lets Talk About
99
Satans Spawn
106
DESIRE
169
VoulezVous Coucher Avec Moi Ce Soir?
188
Gender Benders
201
Notes
359
REASON
367
Index
385
Beyond Reason
386
Dumbing Down
395
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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.

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