Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Pop

ISBN: 1400077249

Author: Sandbrook, Dominic

Condition: new

Im mad as hell, and Im not going to take it anymore! The words of Howard Beale, the fictional anchorman in 1976s 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.