| Description |
320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
America's decades |
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America's decades.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-313) and index. |
| Contents |
Nixon's plan to end the Vietnam War / by Richard Nixon -- The war of October 1973 and the oil embargo / by Burton I. Kaufman -- Camp David Accords and Middle East tensions / by Sandra Mackey -- Revolution and hostages in Iran / by George Lenczowski -- Busing and Nixon's southern strategy / by James T. Patterson -- The creation of magnet schools and integration / by Christine H. Rossell -- The struggle for black equality / by Harvard Sitkoff -- The Watergate crisis / by Harold Evans -- No coups ... no tanks ... no mobs : America without Nixon / by Bill Moyers -- 1976 : Bicentennial reflections / by Barbara Tuchman -- When ideals and reality clash : the presidency of Jimmy Carter / by Theodore H. White -- Structures to protect the environment / by Philip Shabecoff -- Trouble at Love Canal / by Samuel S. Epstein, Lester O. Brown, and Carl Pope -- Accident at Three Mile Island / by Peter Stoler -- The romance with the automobile ends / by Robert L. Shook -- Pop music in the '70s / by David P. Szatmary -- A sample of '70s television / by Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik -- Television families and reality / by Ella Taylor -- The changing image of the cowboy / by Richard Slotkin -- Star wars, Raiders, and Close encounters / by Peter Biskind -- Blue jeans as self-expression / by Beverly Gordon -- The search for self-fulfillment / by Daniel Yankelovich -- The movement to liberate women / by Judith M. Bardwick -- The faces of feminism / by Sheila Tobias -- Mothering, careers, and self-fulfillment / by Joyce Maynard -- Attitudes toward women in the workplace / by Nancy E. McGlen and Karen O'Connor -- Abortion rights for women : Roe v. Wade / by Dan Drucker -- Did the Women's Movement lose direction? / by Christina Hoff Sommers -- Reflections on the 1970s : a personal view / by Lawrence Wright -- Lessons from Vietnam / by Walter H. Capps. |
| Subject |
Nineteen seventies.
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United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
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| Added Author |
Schmidt, Mark Ray, 1953-
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| Added Title |
Nineteen-seventies |
| ISBN |
0737703083 library binding alkaline paper |
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0737703075 paperback alkaline paper |
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