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It Seemed Like Nothing Happened
Peter N. Carroll
其他書名
America in the 1970s
出版Rutgers University Press, 1990
主題History / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN08135153869780813515380
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oPlNcHQUvSAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"A compelling and persuasive challenge to the journalistic characterization of the '70s as the 'Me Decade.'" -- Ruth Rosen, University of California, Davis

"This is the single best book on the 1970s." -- Leo Ribuffo, George Washington University
In this unique, comprehensive history of the 1970s, we learn about international developments: the war in Cambodia, Nixon's trip to China, the oil embargo and resulting gas shortage, the Mayaquez incident, the Camp David accords, the Iranian capture of the U.S. embassy and the taking of hostages, the ill-fated rescue mission. All this signaled a decline in American power and influence. We also learn about domestic politics: Kent State, the Pentagon Papers, Haynsworth and Carswell, the Eagleton affair, the rise of ticket splitting, inflation, recession, unemployment, Watergate, Agnew's resignation, the Saturday night massacre, Nixon's resignation, the pardon for draft evaders, Proposition 13, the politicization of organized religion, the conservative shift in the Democratic Party, and the Reagan electoral landslide. Carroll reminds us of tragedies and occasional moments of levity, bringing up the names Patricia Hearst, George Jackson and Angela Davis, Wilbur Mills and the Argentina Firecracker, Wayne Hays and Elizabeth Ray, Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.