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Stayin´ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Jefferson Cowie
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Description for Stayin´ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Paperback. Num Pages: 468 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JFC; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 672.
Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book makes new sense of the 1970s as a crucial and poorly understood transition from New Deal America, with its large, optimistic middle class, to the widening economic inequalities, poverty and dampened expectations of the 1980s and into the present. Cowie also connects politics to culture, showing how the big screen and the juke box can help understand how the US turned away from the radicalism of the 1960s toward the patriotic promise of Ronald Reagan.
Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book makes new sense of the 1970s as a crucial and poorly understood transition from New Deal America, with its large, optimistic middle class, to the widening economic inequalities, poverty and dampened expectations of the 1980s and into the present. Cowie also connects politics to culture, showing how the big screen and the juke box can help understand how the US turned away from the radicalism of the 1960s toward the patriotic promise of Ronald Reagan.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The New Press United States
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
Number of Pages
468
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781595587077
SKU
V9781595587077
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99-15
About Jefferson Cowie
Jefferson Cowie is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. He is the author of Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (The New Press), which received the 2000 Philip Taft Prize for the Best Book in Labor History. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
Reviews for Stayin´ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Will long stand as the finest and most sophisticated portrait of politics and culture in the American 1970s.” —E.J. Dionne Gives the best sense of the way that it felt to live through the decade
Cowie’s book captures the contradictory nature of the 1970s politics better than almost any other ever written about the period.” —Kim Phillips-Fein, Dissent ... Read more