How We Got Here: The 70's: The Decade that Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse)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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... than that . An influential book published in 1970 , The Real Majority by Benjamin Wattenberg and Richard Scammen , observed that the typical American voter was neither young , nor poor , nor black . She was xxi - INTRODUCTION.
... than that . An influential book published in 1970 , The Real Majority by Benjamin Wattenberg and Richard Scammen , observed that the typical American voter was neither young , nor poor , nor black . She was xxi - INTRODUCTION.
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... poor , nor black . She was a 47 - year - old machinist's wife living in Dayton , Ohio . And - as Wattenberg and Scammen did not quite say — as far as she was concerned , the 1960s were the 1940s , except that frozen veg- etables had ...
... poor , nor black . She was a 47 - year - old machinist's wife living in Dayton , Ohio . And - as Wattenberg and Scammen did not quite say — as far as she was concerned , the 1960s were the 1940s , except that frozen veg- etables had ...
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... poor could - with effort and luck - rise to great wealth . Others , no less hardworking , ended their lives as maimed beggars because a bolt had sheared or a sprocket slipped . A tornado could wipe out ten years of work on the farm , a ...
... poor could - with effort and luck - rise to great wealth . Others , no less hardworking , ended their lives as maimed beggars because a bolt had sheared or a sprocket slipped . A tornado could wipe out ten years of work on the farm , a ...
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... poor ? Then generous welfare payments should abolish that misery altogether . Has a slight relaxation of discipline made schools more humane without diminishing standards ? Then even laxer discipline should yield even better results ...
... poor ? Then generous welfare payments should abolish that misery altogether . Has a slight relaxation of discipline made schools more humane without diminishing standards ? Then even laxer discipline should yield even better results ...
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Contenido
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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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Términos y frases comunes
ACAPULCO GOLD ANDREI SAKHAROV army AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE baby bomb busing California Carter century Chez Panisse Chicago churches City civil rights committee Congress country's crime Daniel Yankelovich decade Democratic desegregation divorce dollar drugs early economic elected federal feel force Frederick Lewis Allen high school homosexual Ibid immigrants inflation John judge Kennedy less liberal lived look Lyndon Johnson majority male marriage mid-century million moral movie murder never Nixon percent of Americans police political poor President protest published racial Random House reported Republican Robert Roosevelt ruled Senator sexual social society South Boston South Boston High South Vietnam Soviet story Street Studio 54 Supporting Actress Supreme Court Sweet Savage television things tion unions United University Press Vietnam vote wanted WARREN BURGER Watergate welfare woman women York young
Pasajes populares
Página 94 - It is true that in Griswold the right of privacy in question inhered in the marital relationship. Yet the marital couple is not an independent entity with a mind and heart of its own, but an association of two individuals each with a separate intellectual and emotional makeup.
Página 230 - Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide. Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man's laws, not God's — and if you cut them down — and you're just the man to do it — d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
Página 230 - And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast — Man's laws, not God's — and if you cut them down — and you're just the man to do it — d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Página 242 - You do not take a person who for years has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.
Página 221 - This New Nationalism regards the executive power as the steward of the public welfare. It demands of the judiciary that it shall be interested primarily in human welfare rather than in property, just as it demands that the representative body shall represent all the people rather than any one class or section of the people.
Página 10 - But most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
Página 242 - We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.
Página 39 - CIA officials to speak to us. Instead, it is a question of our reluctance, if you will, to seek information and knowledge on subjects which I personally, as a Member of Congress and as a citizen, would rather not have...
Página 94 - If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.
Página 221 - The New Nationalism puts the national need before sectional or personal advantage. It is impatient of the utter confusion that results from local legislatures attempting to treat national issues as local issues. It is still more impatient of the impotence which springs from overdivision of governmental powers, the impotence which makes it possible for local selfishness or for legal cunning, hired by wealthy special interests, to bring national activities to a deadlock.