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Book Synopsis American Decades: 1970-1979 by : Vincent Tompkins
Download or read book American Decades: 1970-1979 written by Vincent Tompkins and published by American Decades. This book was released on 1994 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference documents and analyzes periods of contemporary American social history such as the roaring twenties, the depression years, World War II, and the 60s. There are 10 volumes altogether and each includes: a chronology of the decade; subject chapters with background essays; subject-specific chronologies and alphabetically arranged items depicting the people, ideas, and facts important during that period.
Book Synopsis American Decades by : Vincent Tompkins
Download or read book American Decades written by Vincent Tompkins and published by American Decades. This book was released on 1995 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as a reference source for American social history, this volume discusses the people, events and ideas of the 1940s. After an introductory overview and chronology, subject chapters follow with subject-specific timelines and alphabetically arranged entries.
Book Synopsis American Decades Primary Sources: 1970-1979 by : Cynthia Rose
Download or read book American Decades Primary Sources: 1970-1979 written by Cynthia Rose and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over two thousand primary sources on twentieth-century American history and culture, featuring seventy-five different types of sources, arranged chronologically in twelve categories, including the arts, education, government and politics, media, medicine and health, religion, and sports.
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Book Synopsis American Decades: 2000-2009 by : Eric L. Bargeron
Download or read book American Decades: 2000-2009 written by Eric L. Bargeron and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 2011 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at American civilization by decade covers history, politics, law, economics, culture, sports, social trends, and important people.
Download or read book The 1970s written by Marcel Ernst and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decade began with a hangover. The Republican Nixon occupied the White House, ending youthful Americans' dreams of social transformation. After hundreds of thousands had perished, the Nigerian Civil War ended in January 1970 when its army swallowed up little Biafra. In February the prominent logician, philosopher and anti-war activist Bertrand Russell died at the ripe old age of 97. His wit and common sense had been the perfect antidote to the century's right-wing as well as left-wing propaganda. Mankind had been to the moon, but at the cost of several astronauts' lives. In April the survival of the three Apollo 13 astronauts following an oxygen tank explosion captured the world's imagination. Pop musicians took note; Elton John released Rocket Man, and David Bowie Space Oddity. Others charted a new course; environmentalists celebrated the first Earth Day that month. In May Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) set sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II ("sun") to cross the Atlantic Ocean to Barbados, providing further proof of the feasibility of intercontinental travel in ancient times. In Palo Alto Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak. American Motors Corporation introduced the Gremlin, a compact car produced in the United States that competed with the Chevy Vega and the Ford Pinto. Conflict and tragedy were not far behind. In September terrorism reared its ugly head with the Dawson's Field hijackings. Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked five passenger airliners, forcing them to land at a remote airstrip in Jordan. At that site they destroyed the empty planes, sparing the passengers. King Hussein declared martial law. The standoff ended peacefully by month's end after the release of four imprisoned PFLP members. Jimmy Hendrix as well as Janis Joplin died that fall, demonstrating the risks of drug-fuelled excess. In October Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau declared the War Measures Act to defeat an extremist challenge. Finally, sorrow; Paul McCartney took legal action to dissolve the Beatles on December 31. The first year thus represented a snapshot of the decade's upheavals. In order to do justice to the era I found it necessary to structure the book differently than those on the 1980s and 1990s. Its three parts deal with flashpoints, social transformation and finally, (as before) movers and shakers. In the wake of the activist sixties the young and young at heart turned inward. By and large, political solutions remained elusive. So the silent majority sought redemption through alternatives, including meditation, communal living, or globetrotting. Sustainability of lifestyles became an important concern, especially after the oil shock of 1973. Energy-related concerns prompted French engineers to develop an electric version of the Train à Grande Vitesse (TGV). Governments sped up construction of nuclear power plants. These developments called for detailed treatment. The flashpoints: Canada's 1970 October Crisis; the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre; Watergate; the Yom Kippur war and its aftermath, the OPEC Crisis; the 1973 military coup in Chile; the US exit from Vietnam; the Angolan Civil War; European terrorism and the German Autumn of 1977; and the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Changing currents of society and social life included the birth of global environmentalism; reactions to recession; self discovery and innovation; feminism; and the temporary thaw of Détente. The movers and shakers who made headlines, occasionally in inglorious ways: Indian PM Indira Gandhi, the world's most powerful woman; Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere; Egyptian President Anwar Sadat; West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt; and US President Jimmy Carter. Honorable mentions include Henry Kissinger, Willy Brandt, Georges Pompidou, Gerald Ford and Adolfo Suárez. Chapters on glorious failures, the intelligentsia and those on the wrong side of history follow.
Book Synopsis U X L American Decades: 1970-1979 by : Rob Nagel
Download or read book U X L American Decades: 1970-1979 written by Rob Nagel and published by . This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ten-volume overview of the twentieth century which explores what characterizes each decade as expressed through the arts, economy, education, government, politics, fashions, health, science, technology, and sports.
Book Synopsis The Great Inflation by : Michael D. Bordo
Download or read book The Great Inflation written by Michael D. Bordo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation of resources, thereby raising productivity. This volume focuses on understanding the causes of the Great Inflation of the 1970s and ’80s, which saw rising inflation in many nations, and which propelled interest rates across the developing world into the double digits. In the decades since, the immediate cause of the period’s rise in inflation has been the subject of considerable debate. Among the areas of contention are the role of monetary policy in driving inflation and the implications this had both for policy design and for evaluating the performance of those who set the policy. Here, contributors map monetary policy from the 1960s to the present, shedding light on the ways in which the lessons of the Great Inflation were absorbed and applied to today’s global and increasingly complex economic environment.
Book Synopsis The Bee Gees in the 1960s by : Andrew Mon Hughes
Download or read book The Bee Gees in the 1960s written by Andrew Mon Hughes and published by Decades. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1967, the Bee Gees launched themselves onto the international music scene with the release of 'New Yok Mining Disaster 1941'. Whilst that haunting classic would be the first of many hits, the Bee Gees consisting of brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb had been releasing records since 1963. As extraordinary as it sounds, with more than ten years of performing and four years of recording behind them, the Gibb twins, Robin and Maurice, were just seventeen while elder brother Barry was only twenty. In an incredible career the Bee Gees would go on to sell over 200 million records, making them among the best-selling music artists of all time, they would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Australian Recording Industry's Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and receive lifetime achievement awards from the British Phonographic Industry, the American Music Awards, World Music Awards and the Grammys. According to Billboard magazine the Bee Gees are one of top three most successful bands in their charts' history. Few musical groups have provided the soundtrack to our lives like the Bee Gees, and it all started in the fascinating decade that was the 1960s.
Book Synopsis White House Years by : Henry Kissinger
Download or read book White House Years written by Henry Kissinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental work, covering Kissinger's first four years (1969-1973) as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and President Nixon's closest advisor on foreign policy, is one of the most significant books to come out of the Nixon administration. Among the countless moments Kissinger recalls in White House Years are his first meeting with Nixon, his secret trip to China, the first SALT negotiations, the Jordan crisis of 1970, the India-Pakistan war of 1971, and the historic summit meetings in Moscow and Beijing in 1972. He offers insights into the Middle East conflicts, Anwar Sadat's break with the Soviet Union, the election of Salvador Allende in Chile, issues of defense strategy, and relations with Europe and Japan. Other highlights are his relationship with Nixon, brilliant portraits of major foreign leaders, and his views on handling crises and the art of diplomacy. Few men have wielded as much influence on American foreign policy as Henry Kissinger. White House Years, his own record, makes an invaluable and lasting contribution to the history of this crucial time.
Book Synopsis American Decades: 1960-1969 by : Vincent Tompkins
Download or read book American Decades: 1960-1969 written by Vincent Tompkins and published by American Decades. This book was released on 1994 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference documents and analyzes periods of contemporary American social history such as the roaring twenties, the depression years, World War II, and the 60s. There are 10 volumes altogether and each includes: a chronology of the decade; subject chapters with background essays; subject-specific chronologies and alphabetically arranged items depicting the people, ideas, and facts important during that period.
Book Synopsis Big Hair and Plastic Grass by : Dan Epstein
Download or read book Big Hair and Plastic Grass written by Dan Epstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epstein takes readers on a funky ride through baseball and America in the swinging '70s in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade. Includes 8-page photo insert.
Download or read book Mad as Hell written by Dominic Sandbrook and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” The words of Howard Beale, the fictional anchorman in 1976’s hit film Network, struck a chord with a generation of Americans. In this colourful new history, Dominic Sandbrook ranges seamlessly over the political, economic, and cultural high (and low) points of American life in the 1970s, exploring the roots of the fears, resentments, cravings, and disappointments we know so well today. From Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to Anita Bryant and Jerry Falwell, he shows how the 1970s saw the emergence of a new right-wing populism, setting the stage for the bitter partisanship and near-total cynicism of our modern political landscape.
Book Synopsis The Dinner Party by : Jane F. Gerhard
Download or read book The Dinner Party written by Jane F. Gerhard and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judy Chicago's monumental art installation The Dinner Party was an immediate sensation when it debuted in 1979, and today it is considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the second-wave feminist movement. Jane F. Gerhard examines the piece's popularity to understand how ideas about feminism migrated from activist and intellectual circles into the American mainstream in the last three decades of the twentieth century. More than most social movements, feminism was transmitted and understood through culture—art installations, Ms. Magazine, All in the Family, and thousands of other cultural artifacts. But the phenomenon of cultural feminism came under extraordinary criticism in the late 1970s and 1980s Gerhard analyzes these divisions over whether cultural feminism was sufficiently activist in light of the shifting line separating liberalism from radicalism in post-1970s America. She concludes with a chapter on the 1990s, when The Dinner Party emerged as a target in political struggles over public funding for the arts, even as academic feminists denounced the piece for its alleged essentialism. The path that The Dinner Party traveled—from inception (1973) to completion (1979) to tour (1979-1989) to the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum (2007)—sheds light on the history of American feminism since 1970 and on the ways popular feminism in particular can illuminate important trends and transformations in the broader culture.
Book Synopsis The Seventies by : Bruce J. Schulman
Download or read book The Seventies written by Bruce J. Schulman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-08-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us think of the 1970s as an "in-between" decade, the uninspiring years that happened to fall between the excitement of the 1960s and the Reagan Revolution. A kitschy period summed up as the "Me Decade," it was the time of Watergate and the end of Vietnam, of malaise and gas lines, but of nothing revolutionary, nothing with long-lasting significance. In the first full history of the period, Bruce Schulman, a rising young cultural and political historian, sweeps away misconception after misconception about the 1970s. In a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant reexamination of the decade's politics, culture, and social and religious upheaval, he argues that the Seventies were one of the most important of the postwar twentieth-century decades. The Seventies witnessed a profound shift in the balance of power in American politics, economics, and culture, all driven by the vast growth of the Sunbelt. Country music, a southern silent majority, a boom in "enthusiastic" religion, and southern California New Age movements were just a few of the products of the new demographics. Others were even more profound: among them, public life as we knew it died a swift death. The Seventies offers a masterly reconstruction of high and low culture, of public events and private lives, of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Evel Knievel, est, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan. From The Godfather and Network to the Ramones and Jimmy Buffett; from Billie jean King and Bobby Riggs to Phyllis Schlafly and NOW; from Proposition 13 to the Energy Crisis; here are all the names, faces, and movements that once filled our airwaves, and now live again. The Seventies is powerfully argued, compulsively readable, and deeply provocative.
Book Synopsis America's Best History Timeline by : Americasbesthistory Com
Download or read book America's Best History Timeline written by Americasbesthistory Com and published by Jdp Econ Publications. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeline of historic events from the 1500's to the present day in American history, categorized by decade and year brought to you by the staff at America's Best History and americasbesthistory.com. Quick and easy to search reference guide enumerating the most important events of each year for students or anyone who wants to keep american history in context and how it unfolded at their fingertips. The editors at americasbesthistory.com has put together this timeline of American history in an easy to read fashion, which mirrors the way the website categorizes the most important events of each year. It is meant as a clear and concise account of the events in short paragraph form, without an overly academic tone. You won't find footnotes and opinion, but you will find a good starting off place to dive more deeply into each subject and as a reminder of how the events of United States history took shape, about how the population of the nation grew, about how politics and political events shaped each decade, and about our national parks and heritage that tell the stories of each. The information provided within this timeline was gleaned from various sources, as well as the knowledge and experience of the America's Best History staff, and should not be considered a scholarly work per se, but as a jumping off point for the reader to go into more detail about a particular topic of their interest.
Book Synopsis William Albert Allard, Five Decades by : William Albert Allard
Download or read book William Albert Allard, Five Decades written by William Albert Allard and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 50 years of photography by the author, a National Geographic photographer. He was a pioneer of color photography with a style that called for entering people's homes and hearts; by winning their confidence he was able to capture "off guard" moments, and reveal the depth of human nature. His work reveals beauty, mystery, and a sense of adventure. Part photography retrospective and part personal memoir, this book paints a full picture of the life of a globe-trekking photographer over the past half century.
